Friday, 14 June 2019

Dig it find it old Archaeology magazine 14-06-2019

A new limited edition whisky will help fund the annual archaeological dig at the stunning Neolithic complex of Ness of Brodgar in Orkney. Highland Park distillery in Orkney has launched 5,000 bottles…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marijuana chemical residue has been found in incense burners apparently used during funerary rites at a mountainous site in western China in about 500 BC, providing what may be…
An enormous stone sphinx representing the pharaoh Ramses II has spent nearly a century in the Egypt Gallery of the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. But today (June 12) the sphinx was relocated in "a monu…
Touching down in Udon Thani International airport, I was excited as to what the next few days were going to bring. I was in Thailand as part of the Women’s Journey Campaign, a tourism campaign to sho…
Hidden in the soil: Digging reveals new insights of long-lost site in Bryn Celli Ddu landscape. Bryn Celli Ddu. Image: Adam Stanford Aerial Cam. Archaeologists return to uncover a prehistoric ritual …
Went from a treasure hunting play to now a technology play also with the team they have been assembling. A recent treasure find also below. News on the site that was not released public other then th…
Recently, a collection of ancient wooden incense burners—or braziers—were found at a 2,500-year-old cemetery in western China's Pamir mountain range. Intrigued by the discovery, an international team…
A wooden brazier holding stones that could be heated to burn cannabis. A new report in the journal Science Advances suggests that cannabis was used in burial rituals 2,500 years ago in western China.…
A WRITER and esteemed archaeologist believes that a Roman fort could be hiding beneath Largs town centre. Andrew Tibbs thinks that Largs could be a potential hotspot for hidden architecture and artef…
The remains of a warrior buried at the end of the 10th century in an earthen mausoleum has been located in the village Bodzia in central Poland. According to researchers this person was of elite stat…
Time to talk pottery! ...we're delighted to be talking pots with classical archaeologist and curator of the UK's fourth largest collection of Greek art, Professor Amy Smith. Professor Smith curates t…
Fragment of statue base with Greek inscription from 2nd century found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv 6/12/2019 10:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest A fragment wit…
The origins of cannabis smoking: Marijuana use in the first millennium BC 6/12/2019 06:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Cannabis has been cultivated as …
Just about all religions and cultures have legends and myths of a great flood in the ancient past. A flood that all but wiped out life on Earth, as well as burying any trace of the world and the civi…
Mammoths are among the best-known of all pre-historic animals and they have fascinated scientists and the public for generations. Some remains of the tusks of these Ice Age creatures have recently be…
Tracing the Lines: Uncovering Grooved Ware Trajectories in Neolithic Scotland Known from domestic settlements, pit clusters, tombs and putative ritual sites, the distinctive flat-bottomed, tub-, buck…
Gunung Padang could change everything we know about history. Proceeding with due caution, archaeologists are turning their attention to a Pyramid shaped mound located near Cianjur, West Java. It is w…
The ancient inhabitants of Scotland were building artificial islands thousands of years earlier than we thought, ancient pottery discovered in Scottish lochs suggests. Hundreds of these small, human-…
Archaeologists in Scotland have made “astounding discoveries” in a murky loch which finally determines when ancient homes known as crannogs were first used, and it’s thousands of years earlier than p…

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