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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key (Jonathan Yeomans) The cemetery at Saqqara is one of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt. Over six kilometres long, it boasts thousands of underground burial sites, as well as the six-step Djoser pyramid – Egypt’s oldest pyramid. The ruins at Saqqara have long attracted the interest of explorers, grave-robbers and local people. Travellers first reported evidence...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf war A secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent attempt to cover up UK academic connections to a potentially deadly trade in stolen Iraqi antiquities. The findings of the study, which was suppressed by a controversial legal agreement in 2007, have...
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News for Medievalists (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Norwegian scientists have found “mummified” pine trees, dead for nearly 500 years yet without decomposition. The discovery could lead to a wealth of information for scholars examining the medieval environment. Dated to the early 1200s, the 40 dead Scotch pines were found scattered among living trees in what was once a dense forest that supplied wood for medieval boats and churches. Norway’s...
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Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , United Kingdom The long wait is finally over for the grand reopening of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology . After being partially or completely closed for the past three years, the museum's vast collection is finally open to the public again, with twice the exhibition space it once had. The Ashmolean is the oldest public...
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Jerusalem Hills daily photo (Free subscription) | yesterday
. Luck was with me these last three weeks doing archaeology in Tiberias: no poisonous snakes or scorpions to photograph. Several fellow volunteers did encounter them at our site, however. Instead, I'm happy to show you and the Camera-Critter friends some of the birds that grace the Sea of Galilee. Early one morning the faint sound of birds way high up alerted us to a flock in migration! Click to enlarge...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Heritage Key The Desert Fathers of ancient Egypt were some of the world's first hermits. Despite the modern ideal of the hermit, these didn't live in total isolation. However, they did live a sparse, hard life in the country's early Christian monasteries. If women chose to enter their sphere, they would do so dressed as men. Who were these scholastic men of the desert, and how did their form of worship...
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Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
JNES October 2009 There is an article on Egypt in this month's JNES: The Names “Naneferkaptah,” “Ihweret,” and “Tabubue” in the “First Tale of Setne Khaemwas ” by Steve Vinson The full article is available to subscribers or for purchase. The first page of the paper, with a paragraph of summary, can be found here . There are also book reviews that may...
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Cool Science News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sixteenth century glass beads are among the rare artifacts discovered at Fernbank Museum of Natural History's archaeology site, which scholars believe is a stop along Hernando de Soto's trek through the Southeast in 1540. (Credit: Dan Schultz/Fernbank Museum of Natural History) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Nov. 5, 2009) — Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have...
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Apologetics 315 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Big Argument: Does God Exist? is a collection of twenty-four essays from various scholars in a variety of fields such as philosophy, science, history, and archaeology. Judging the book by its cover, the book’s cover art, paper, and binding gives the impression that the content might be equally poor in quality. However, that is not necessarily true. The content was much richer than the first...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: an archaeology professor with little more to go on than a yellowing photograph discovers part of a 900-year-old statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.
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Fuzzy Dragons (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Copyright Jennifer Rose Phillip Just :p I managed to catch some kind of bug that was going around last Friday. Thought it was just something that would pass but on Monday I was pretty much ill as a dog (hmm where does that phrase come from I wonder..). I'm still tired and a bit ill but much better. Just need to catch up with a lot that I've missed. Just scanned over a lot of things this past week....
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Wilson's Blogmanac (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Sydney's Hyde Park and New York's Central Park are skeuomorphs of Nature. A skeuomorph is a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Arguably, permaculture is also a skeuomorph. I'm still working on this question, as, I have no doubt, are many others. Feedback welcome. Categories: archaeology , permaculture Friends of Wilson's Almanac,...
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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Three men, including the board member of an auction house, have been arrested on Gotland in connection with the plunder of hundreds of Viking-era silver artifacts from the Baltic Sea island, Sveriges Radio reports. Island thieves bag Viking treasure (2 Nov 09) The three men, 38, 44 and 45, all live on the mainland, though two also own homes on Gotland. One of the men, a 44-year-old from Stockholm,...
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Spaghetti Gazetti (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A grant from The Veolia Environmental Trust is enabling Cotteridge Quaker Meeting take the next step in ensuring their meeting house on Watford Road produces zero carbon emissions by 2010 – acting as an eco beacon for Birmingham in the process. Once they have implemented their planned changes, the Meeting could save from the atmosphere almost the same amount of carbon as is produced by two round...
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Elginism (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Archaeology is a far more complex endeavour today than it ever was in the past due to the many parties trying to get hold of the artefacts before they are properly excavated & catalogued. Most countries have legal frameworks in place to prevent this, but direct action against who purchase illegally excavated pieces will also [...]
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