From August 2012, students will be able to enrol on master’s courses at University College London Qatar. By focusing on archaeology and museum studies in a region where much of the study of antiquity is conducted, UCL thinks it can attract the calibre of academic needed to establish a credible centre of research.
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Historical Probe After Stirling Castle Landslide
A section of wall below Stirling Castle that collapsed last week is now the subject of an archaeological investigation. The wall was on a steep bank above Butt Well
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-16195566ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations in the Peak District are in the running for a national award and support from the public can make all the difference.
The Fin Cop project is one of five shortlisted for the prestigious Archaeological Research Project of the Year Award by readers and editors of Current Archaeology magazine.
The excavations at Fin Cop, an Iron Age hill fort overlooking Monsal Dale, near Bakewell, rose to national significance when unexpected evidence of a prehistoric massacre was revealed.
Skeletal remains of several young women and children were found thrown into a ditch with the ramparts pushed over them more than 2,000 years ago…
ALBANY N.Y.-A national archaeology preservation organization has acquired an upstate New York property that was home to a Colonial-era blockhouse built to guard Britain’s largest North American fortification during the French and Indian War.
I want to travel it;The Middle East here I come!
I want to travel the world; England. France. Germany. Italy. Greece. Spain. All of those and then some. Even the dreary places like Russia. Even Africa, Australia, and Antarctica.
Dedicated to me and my sister: MJ. One day this will be us.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Harvard University educated archaeologist and director of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, surveyed and completed a preliminary analysis of two sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey discovered by a Kurdish guide, Ahmet Ertugrul. “The research areas are…
During an inspection tour of Luxor’s archaeological sites, the Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim announced that the Avenue of Sphinxes will be partly opened to public by mid March. “We have chosen a date that coincides with the opening of the Berlin International Tourism…
GREVENA, Greece — Not all Greek myths are ancient.
In rural towns and villages, where millennia-old pottery shards and broken classical masonry are sometimes found, shepherds and farmers have similar tales to tell.
They cite the buried golden sow with its seven golden piglets (which made a…
There was a time when Afghanistan’s priceless archaeological and cultural artifacts and monuments were relatively safe, though they were not widely known to the world outside. When the Russians departed the country in 1988, the transitional shift to the Mujahadeen saw a power vacuum that…
Napoleon Bonaparte was an extraordinary and contradictory man: a warlord who saw himself as a champion of civilisation. One of his most ambitious attempts to prove himself a cultural as well as military titan was to commission a team of scholars to produce the legendary Description de…
The Fire at the L’Institut d’Egypte a “great loss”
On Sunday the Institute D’Egypte caught fire and burned. The Institute was established in 1798 by the French, and held an estimated 200,000 volumes, including rare accounts of Egypt in the 18th Century. I must confess I had no knowledge of the Institute before yesterday, but because I, like many privileged folks in the developed world, have access to Wikipedia, I know it is an important building, and an important repository of information. Yet most Egyptians don’t have that luxury. As Larry Rothfield points out, neither the protesters, nor the military seemed to know this was an important building containing books and manuscripts.
A medieval monument to religious pluralism, hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan
What’s remarkable is that the writing on the minaret and archaeological remains nearby strongly suggest that the city harbored a population of Muslims, Christians and Jews. Writing on the minaret is a detailed transcription from the Koran that celebrates the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, highlighting the connections between Islam and other religions. Nearby there is a Jewish graveyard, which is another hint that people of different religions were living peacefully together.
A tomb containing the ‘perfectly intact’ remains of 60 people - who were slaughtered in sacrificial offerings more than 1,100 years ago - has been discovered in Peru.
Archaeologists found the mass grave, in an eight metre deep and 150 metre wide pit, in Lambayeque on the country’s northern coast.
They also unearthed the remains of dogs and horses at the site, which is next to a key Sican ceremonial centre, in the historical Pomac Woods, 500 miles north of Lima.
Carlos Elera and Jose Pinilla, who have been excavating the area since January, said the remains included headless skeletons and 30 skulls.
They were, more likely than not, offered in sacrifice to the gods of the Sican culture.
El Comercio newspaper reported that dishes and ceramics were also found. In a feature on the find, it said: ‘What most impressed the scouts is that in some cases gives the impression that the sacrificed were violently thrown from above.’
In January, archaeologists found the tomb of a ‘high ruler’ of the religion, which emerged around 700AD and continued until 1375, in the same area.
CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Harvard University educated archaeologist and director of the Paleontological Research Corporation, Dr. Joel Klenck, surveyed and completed a preliminary analysis of two sites on Mount Ararat in Turkey discovered by a Kurdish guide, Ahmet Ertugrul. “The research areas are…
