Monks in Egypt’s Lawless Sinai Hope to Preserve an Ancient Library: Just as they have done for 17...
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Monks in Egypt’s Lawless Sinai Hope to Preserve an Ancient Library
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ARCHAEOLOGY - Bergama area to become 3D
ARCHAEOLOGY - Bergama area to become 3D: archaeology:
The four temples of Bergama ancient city,...
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archaeoblogs: The Ceremonial Precinct in the Upper City of...
The Ceremonial Precinct in the Upper City of Hazor: What Does the Identification As a Temple or Palace Have to Do With Joshua’s Conquest?
Source: http://bit.ly/15RYNw1
ANE Today Editorial Introduction:* Hazor, “the head of all those kingdoms,” has a unique place in Biblical Archaeology. It is the largest tell in the Southern Levant, and a city-state whose importance resonated throughout the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Hazor is also specifically named in the Book of Joshua as one of the enemies of the Israelites. Since the pioneering excavations at Hazor during the 1950s and 1960s, the question of ‘who destroyed Hazor’ has tantalized scholars and lay people. The renewed excavations directed by Ben-Tor have added greatly to………. Read MoreRead and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project
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xmorbidcuriosityx: SEVERED HEAD OFFERING FOUND IN AZTEC...
SEVERED HEAD OFFERING FOUND IN AZTEC TEMPLE
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently found the decapitated skull of an individual still lying in the offering bowl, dating back 500 years ago at the Tlatelolco temple site in Mexico City.
Tlatelolco is a site in Mexico City where remains of the pre-Columbian city-state of the same name have been found centred on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, which is a large square surrounded on three sides by a excavated Aztec monuments and a seventeenth-century church called the Templo de Santiago.
According to the archaeologist Salvador Guilliem, director of the Tlatelolco Project, the decapitated remains belonged to a young adult and were deposited as an offering in a ceramic vessel.The grisly find was found at a stratum level that relates to the construction phase VII-A of the Great Temple (between 1500 and 1515 CE) and may represent a consecration offering, placed here during the preparation rituals of the space that the new structure would occupy.
(Source: Past Horizons)
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anthrocentric: Thousands Buried Beneath Philly...
Thousands Buried Beneath Philly Playgrounds
Underneath the swing sets of an urban playground in the Queen Village neighborhood of South Philadelphia are the forgotten remains of an estimated 3,000 African-Americans.
This week, a team of archaeologists broke the asphalt in four places at Weccecoe Park, digging to a depth of 3 feet to uncover evidence of the 19th century burial site. On Thursday morning, the fourth and final trench revealed a single gravestone.
"Amelia Brown, 1819, Aged 26 years" is clearly carved into the white stone, with this epitaph:
"Whosoever live and believeth in me, though we be dead, yet shall we live."
"There is no grave shaft associated with that stone, it’s just sitting loose in the fill," said Douglas Mooney, senior archaeologist for URS corporation. “It was knocked over at some point, long ago, when the cemetery was filled in in the mid-19th century. It no longer marks an actual grave. It’s just a loose stone in the ground."
The gravestone is the pièce de résistance for this dig, but not the goal. Mooney and his team found evidence of many grave shafts, and stone walls representing the border of the cemetery. They have been digging to determine exactly where the cemetery limits are, and how far down. The team stopped digging several feet shy of where actual bones could be.
"It should leave a nice buffer that will ensure the cemetery will not be disturbed," said Mooney.
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Mummy Study Gives Chilling Glimpse Of Children's Final Moments
Mummy Study Gives Chilling Glimpse Of Children's Final Moments: Three Incan children who were...
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Taliban Storm Prison In Pakistan And Free 250 Prisoners
Taliban Storm Prison In Pakistan And Free 250 Prisoners: By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan,...
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Secret castle room uncovered
Secret castle room uncovered: A hidden room had been uncovered at Cardigan Castle
This was an...
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smartbitchesdontlie: Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
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How to find Archaeology Field Schools
How to find Archaeology Field Schools:
Several universities these days advertise themselves to...
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Archaeology Blog: Back in the Trenches
Archaeology Blog: Back in the Trenches:
I write this page to educate people on archaeology and...
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University of Chicago scholars help re-create ancient Sumerian beer
indianajonesmythreality:
The mission of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is...
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Ancient 'Halls Of The Dead' Unearthed In Open Field
Ancient 'Halls Of The Dead' Unearthed In Open Field: Archaeologists have unearthed two nearly...
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archaeoblogs: Through the millennia: Irish Archaeology in...
Through the millennia: Irish Archaeology in photos
Source: http://bit.ly/1ce2u5p
Here is another selection of amazing images from our Photography Competition, this time spanning the entire breadth of Irish archaeology. Don’t forget there are also specific posts showing some of the Prehistoric, Early Medieval, Late Medieval and Foreign Archaeology photos. All of the images used in this blog post are copyright of the respective photographers, please respect this. (image) ‘Starry Night at Tara’. Photo by Kevin Murphy (image) ‘Leac an Scail, Kilmogue Dolmen, Co. Kilkenny’. Photo by Mark Walsh (image) ‘Skull………. Read MoreRead and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project
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mofesto: Madaen Saleh, Nabateans Ruins in Saudi Arabia. The...
Madaen Saleh, Nabateans Ruins in Saudi Arabia. The shelves were to store the bones of the nobles, note the smaller shelves, for the infants.
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theculturetrip: Mongolia: Life Before Genghis Khan and his...
Mongolia: Life Before Genghis Khan and his Empire
Chinggis Khaan (the local pronunciation and spelling of Genghis Khan) is synonymous with the Mongols and Mongolian history, and for many there was no other story, culture or history. However, long before the rise of the Mongol Empire in the 12th century the country was home to ancient kingdoms, the remains of which are still visible today. 20 kilometres West of Mörön, in the North of Mongolia, lays the fascinating proof of this early history.
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ephemera. love vincentpants: The Achaeology of Milk (or how Lactase spread across the world)
ephemera. love vincentpants: The Achaeology of Milk (or how Lactase spread across the world):...
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Archaeology: The milk revolution
Archaeology: The milk revolution: When a single genetic mutation first let ancient Europeans drink...
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breakingnews: Monumental Mayan carving found in Guatemala A...
Monumental Mayan carving found in Guatemala
A Mayan frieze has been discovered inside a pyramid that dates to the 8th century during an archaeological dig in northeastern Guatemala.
The carving, which measures roughly 26 feet wide and 6 feet high, shows three human figures wearing elaborate bird headdresses and jade jewels, seated cross-legged over the head of a mountain spirit.
Photo: A wide-angle photo of the Maya frieze in Guatemala shows archaeologist Anya Shetler cleaning an inscription. (F. Estrada-Belli / Proyecto Arqueologico Holmul )
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Back to Bedlam: Crossrail digging unearths ancient London burial ground
Back to Bedlam: Crossrail digging unearths ancient London burial ground:
Tunnelling project’s chief...
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