Museum of London, London
Run by: Museum of London, Tours of Mortimer Wheeler House.
“Visit the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre every Friday and on the first and third Saturday in every month to see and handle some of the thousands of finds that haven’t yet made it into our galleries.”
Submitted by Lunarwhirlwind
Gunther von Hagen made Anatomy videos with a live dissection. It is EXTREMELY interesting, but do not watch if you’re squeemish. VERY cool and informative, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9MkgxBfp1Q&playnext=1&list=PL49CBA27DCC8BDE9E&feature=results_main
Archaeological Society Hosts Lecture Series
MIDDLEBORO —
The Massachusetts Archaeological Society is hosting a fall lecture series, “Digging and Discovery,” on subjects that will be of interest to the general public as well as to those involved in archaeology. The next program in the series, which is sponsored by the Massasoit Chapter of the society, is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 10. The programs will take place at the Robbins Museum of Archaeology on Jackson Street from 7-9 p.m.
The topic for Oct. 10 will be “The Iriquois Nation,” presented by David Burnine.
BRONZE PADLOCK
From the shipwreck of the XIX century steamer Great Liverpool, located near Finisterre (A Coruña, Spain).
It was treated by electrolytic reduction.
Sword, Copper alloy
Said to have been found in a cave near Luristan, Iran
11th Century BCE, Middle Babylonian
Length: c.37 cm (total), c. 23.4 cm (blade)
A bronze blade with handle. Below the hilt of the blade, on both sides, is written the following description in cuneiform:
šá d.amar.utu-sum-šeš.meš
lugal šař
lugal ká.dingir.ra.ki
lugal ki.in.gi uri.ki
Which means “Property of Marduk-nadin-ahhe, king of the world, king of Bablyon, king of Sumer and Akkad
Hey nerdy archaeology people here are some pictures of Agia Triada (pronounced Ah-ya Tree-a-da) which is a Minoan site. It is also home to the sweetest little Byzantine chapel ever, and inside said chapel are a bunch of frescoes that I liked.
Agia Triada’s pretty important because they found a metric tonne (exaggeration) of Linear A tablets and also this nifty goddamn sarcophagus.
In these photos you will see me standing on some ancient stairs, as you do, and my dear friend Natalia holding a REALLY GIGANTIC RIM SHERD that we found.
One wears a prim white bonnet. Another sticks out its tongue, hands resting over abdomen. A third clutches at its chest, mouth seemingly frozen in a scream. They are faces from the past, just as they were when laid to rest nearly 300 years ago.
The skull, a human skull, was perched atop a crumbly boulder in the remote northern reaches of the Nepalese district of Mustang. Pete Athans, the leader of an interdisciplinary team of mountaineers and archaeologists, stepped into his harness and tied himself to a rope. He scrambled up the 20-foot boulder, belayed by another climber, Ted Hesser.
When he reached the skull, he pulled on blue latex gloves to prevent his DNA from contaminating the find, and gradually removed it from the rubble. Athans was almost certainly the first person to hold this skull in 1,500 years. Dirt spilled from the eye cavities. He placed it in a padded red bag and lowered it to three scientists waiting below: Mark Aldenderfer of the University of California, Merced; Jacqueline Eng of Western Michigan University; and Mohan Singh Lama of Nepal’s Department of Archaeology.
Climber Pete Athans removes a skull from an eroded cliffside cave in Nepal’s Mustang region last year.
“The remains of 27 ancient men, women, and children have been found in cliffside caves in Nepal. Many of the bones bear cut marks that point to a previously unknown Himalayan death ritual, experts say.
The corpses—many of which had been stripped of flesh—were placed in the high mortuaries some 1,500 years ago, the team announced Friday.”
THIS IS WHY I LOVE BASEBALL! :)
Nat Geo- Dispatches from the roof of the world
The adventure continues on Everest this month as our team makes a push for the summit.
Additional climbers taking the Southeast Ridge route include a team of North Face athletes. The scientific portion of this expedition includes geologists from Montana State University, an instructor from the National Outdoor Leadership School, and specialists from the Mayo Clinic.
Petra: Ancient City Carved Out of Rock
by Owen Jarus
Located about 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Amman, Jordan, Petra was an ancient city that was literally carved into red desert cliffs. Its ornate ancient architecture and natural beauty attract people from all over the world. Part of the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” was filmed in Petra, bringing it more popular attention.
Until its annexation by Rome in 106 A.D., Petra served as a capital for the Nabataeans, a people who wrote using an Aramaic language and controlled caravan trade throughout the region.
The earliest mention of these people is from 312 B.C., when they apparently withstood an assault by Antigonus, one of Alexander the Great’s successors. In these early years the Nabataeans are believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle, and Petra was likely a place of tents and simple structures…
(read more: Live Science)
(photos: T - Vitalii Nesterchuk ; BL - Robert Paul Van Beets; BR - Alaksander Todorovik)
From the looks of it, a far from insignificant find!
(via Corinthian Matters ; article in Italian)
Calanais Standing Stones by theoldsmithy on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Standing stones at Calanais (Callanish), Isle of Lewis
