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Monday, 12 August 2019

Archaeology News

A team of Canadian Ph.D students discovered an ancient village that dates back to before the era of the pyramids. CTV reports that a team of students from the University of Victoria’s archeology depa…
What is believed to be an early drinking hall where influential Vikings may have raised a flagon of ale has been unearthed on a Scottish island. The large Norse building was discovered by a team of s…
A unique fragment of finely worked gold and silver seemingly torn from a larger artifact, found on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, bears silent testimony to the violence 2,605 years ago when Babylonian force…
During a 1954 BBC documentary about Tollund Man, the mysterious body of a hanged man discovered in a peat bog in Denmark, the noted archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler ate a reconstruction of the 2,00…
Scores of skeletons and artifacts — some dating back 1,600 years — were found in a long-hidden cemetery on the grounds of a college campus in Wales. During 2016, construction of a new road to connect…
Corn is one of the world’s most important crops. We don’t just pop it and munch it on the cob; corn can be turned into flour and syrup, it is fed to livestock, it is transformed into ethanol and it c…
As the end of summer approaches, you love to grill your food on the open flame. You savor that char-grilled flavor on your meat or fish. Perhaps you fashion yourself as a modern-day caveman, inspired…
The Maya civilization flourished more than 1,000 years ago, but modern technology is only now revealing the secrets of this ancient Mexican and South American culture—and it’s happening at an unprece…
Fox News Flash top headlines for August 9 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Five cargo-laden ancient shipwrecks have been discovered off a small Greek island. The wrecks were discove…
Archaeologists discover almost 40 new monuments near Newgrange 8/08/2019 06:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest A team from University College Dublin have …
A well-preserved Ancient Egyptian tomb is being relocated to a museum sparking a wave of resistance among archaeologists who are concerned that it might get damaged in the move. And of course, predic…
Archaeologists have uncovered two 2,000-year-old marble eagle statues in a Hellenistic temple at the Kınık Mound, located near the Yeşilyurt village in Niğde's Altunhisar district. The excavations at…
Humankind made the transition from hunting to herding 10,000 years ago, according to a new study which looked into prehistoric urine. It is thought to be the first time urine has been used to date an…
Why humans in Africa fled to the mountains during the last Ice Age 8/08/2019 07:00:00 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest People in Ethiopia did not live in low …
From the ancient mystery of Stonehenge to the singular beauty of Venice and the unrivalled majesty of India's Taj Mahal, there are more than 1,000 World Heritage Sites across the globe. UNESCO’s Worl…
“Finally. I’m happy!” proclaimed Luciano Faggiano, his son Andrea translating the Italian words into English for me. It was two days before the 8 June 2019 opening of Quo Vadis, the trattoria he’s be…
One month after offering up archaeological evidence to back up a contested claim about the First Crusade, researchers say they’ve found traces of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in a deeper laye…
It is syllabus time for many once again. If you are like me, you want to save your students from spending too much on textbooks, but still want to have a rich array of current reading for students as…
CORE Search Results Start Search Over Search Field: All FieldsAuthor/ContributorSubjectTagTitle EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) Author(s): Caitlin Duffy (see profile) Date: 2019 Group(s): Film Stu…

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