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Project to explore Megalithic sites started
Project to explore Megalithic sites started:
Discovering Idukki, a project to explore and document the rich heritage of the district has been started and in the first phase of the project a heritage museum will be opened at the district headquarters in Painavu by April this year.
The project is being implemented by the district…
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Ivory panel showing an Egyptian royal figure. From Nimrud,...
Ivory panel showing an Egyptian royal figure. From Nimrud, North-West Palace, Rooms V–W, 900-700 BCE
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Save our war memorials: Names worn away after 90 years could be restored
Save our war memorials: Names worn away after 90 years could be restored:
For decades after the end of the Great War, the residents of Littleborough would gather at a memorial to remember those who died.
But as time passed and memories of the sacrifices faded, so did the names.
Now, as they prepare for the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War,…
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Archaeological News: Archaeologists dig deep to ex-Hulme a Medieval past
Archaeological News: Archaeologists dig deep to ex-Hulme a Medieval past:
Hulme’s history is often associated with the notorious Crescents or its vital role in the Manchester music scene.
But an archaeological dig is trying to unearth the inner-city district’s forgotten Medieval past.
Archaeologists will carry out a three-week excavation at Birley Fields in Hulme…
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New Issue of African Diaspora Archaeology Network- Open...
New Issue of African Diaspora Archaeology Network- Open Access
http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news1211/news1211.html
The articles in this issue are pretty good.
Introduction to an Extract from War of the Pews:
A Personal Account of the St. Augustine Church
in New Orleans, by Rev. Jerome G. LeDoux, S.V.D.
by Christopher N. Matthews
Crocodiles from Katsina to Madagascar
by Wendy Wilson Fall
New Windows on the Past: An Analysis
of Glass Artifacts from New Philadelphia
by Courtney Ng
New Outlets for Old Foundations:
Archaeology in Annapolis and Web-based Outreach
by Beth Pruitt, Kathryn Deeley and Mark Leone
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Destroyed street in Pompeii, Italy
Destroyed street in Pompeii, Italy
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The music-stele. Limestone, from Tello, period of king Gudea,...
The music-stele.
Limestone, from Tello, period of king Gudea, 2120 BCE AO 52.
At Louvre Museum.
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Article Tittle: Unraveling the mysteries of the...
Article Tittle: Unraveling the mysteries of the Mayans.
Location: Tikal Ruins of Guatemala
Read About Tikal Here: http://www.heritagedaily.com/2012/01/unravelling-the-mysteries-of-the-mayans/
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If you thought that only Egypt had pyramids, you are wrong. In...
If you thought that only Egypt had pyramids, you are wrong. In Lima, Peru, there is one huge ancient pyramid in the middle of the town. Now they have found something strange on the top of it; four old mummies. Mummy and pyramid, nothing strange you think, but the thing is that three of them are sacrificed children, and the fourth is a woman. Archeologists believe that the children were buried with the woman so they could be with her in the afterlife. The mummies are 1150-year-old, and that they belonged to the Wari culture. They are found with fake heads that are made out of cloth, but the bodies are definitely real. Among other things they found 11 drinking vessels, six bags with corn and sewing tools, and a ceramic bowl.
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THIS IS THE COOLEST THING EVER. Found it here. OH MY DARWIN.
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The new MI6 building situated on the banks of the Thames, is the...
The new MI6 building situated on the banks of the Thames, is the brainchild of architect Terry Farrell. It is the headquarters of The British Secret Intelligence Service, known as ‘MI6’. It is known within the intelligence community as ‘Babylon-on-Thames’ due to its resemblance to an ancient Babylonian Ziggurat.
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MLK & Archaeology Building the Martin Luther King, Jr....
MLK & Archaeology
Building the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial
For those working behind the scenes on the King memorial, its meaning runs deep
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Building-the-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-National-Memorial.html#ixzz1jbmqhb4n
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Rituals & Archaeology MLK's Two Burial Places
Rituals & Archaeology MLK's Two Burial Places:
By definition, archaeologists do not have access to data on the full range of the culture of the people who left behind the remains they investigate.
Archaeological data is particularly unlikely to preserve details about the rituals* of past peoples. Some aspects of rituals may be preserved, but most are cultural—they are behaviors and beliefs, and not things—and in particular not things that will not rot or decompose. Therefore, rituals do not preserve well archaeologically, and are thus lost unless preserved through repetition or oral memories.
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Texas crews excavate bones of purported ex-slaves
Texas crews excavate bones of purported ex-slaves:
Crews of scientists with wooden spoons and small metal picks dig carefully around bones embedded in a dry lake bed, excavating what is believed to be the remains of freed slaves and their children buried in a long-forgotten cemetery.
More than two dozen graves were exposed this summer in a section of a reservoir that dried up in the severe Texas drought. Officials later organized a thorough excavation effort and were recently embroiled in a brief legal battle over where to rebury the bones.
With the legal issues resolved and the excavation effort two weeks from completion, the unidentified skeletal remains then will be moved to a cemetery in Navarro County where other black families have been laid to rest.
“I’m pleased that we’re able to finally move them to a place of dignity and honor,” said Bruce McManus, chairman of the county’s historical commission.
A memorial marker will be placed at the new burial site about 80 miles southeast of Fort Worth, but identifying the newly discovered remains likely will not happen. Crews have found no nameplates on the wooden coffins that have long since deteriorated, and no headstones were in the cemetery on land that became Richland-Chambers Lake in the 1980s. No DNA testing is planned.
Read More Here: http://baytownsun.com/texas_ap/article_bc8c8583-b430-50ab-8f06-e307cd6e1e8c.html
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Medieval Jewish manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan include an unknown work by Saadia Gaon
Medieval Jewish manuscripts discovered in Afghanistan include an unknown work by Saadia Gaon:
This much is known: rare, medieval Jewish manuscripts have been discovered along the fabled Silk Road in Afghanistan and are for sale.
Are they authentic? Scholars who have examined them say they are.
The rest — who found them, where they came from, whether there are more to unearth — remains a…
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At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest...
At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah’s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, was cut down by a U.S. Forest Service graduate student in 1964.) Today you can visit the grove where Methuselah hides, but you’ll have to guess at which tree it is. Could this one be it?
Read More Here: The world’s 10 oldest living trees
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