Tag: archaeology
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#MorningMonarchy: March 13, 2017
Temporary safety, super lobbyists and ancient discoveries + this day in history w/Operation Northwoods and our song of the day by Public Service Broadcasting on your Morning Monarchy for March 13, 2017.
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Ancient Deity Drawing May Shed Light on Rise of Andean Religion
from scientificamerican.com: A painted gourd fragment recovered from Peru has added an interesting piece to the archaeological puzzle of where and how religion evolved in pre-Columbian Andean society. Estimated to […]
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Jesus’ House? 1st-Century Structure May Be Where He Grew Up
from livescience.com: Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus’ hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus […]
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Drones to scan for evidence of ancient civilizations in Amazonia
from popular-archaeology.com: A UK-led initiative to scan the Amazon rainforest for new signs of ancient settlements was announced at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement […]
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First House of Nazareth Discovered
from archaeology.org: Archaeologists in Nazareth have uncovered the foundations of the First House of Nazareth, which was built in 1740, and was part of the first Moravian settlement in North […]
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Stonehenge’s Singing Stones
from archaeology.org: SALISBURY PLAIN, ENGLAND—Could the massive standing stones of Stonehenge also have made sounds? The New York Times reports that a team of researchers from London’s Royal College of […]
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Byzantine Monastery and Mosaics Found in Israel
from news.discovery.com: The remains of a 1,500-year-old monastery with intact mosaics covering the floor have been unearthed in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday (April 1). The Byzantine […]
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Mana to Heaven: Offerings to the Gods in Roman Britain
from blog.prehistoricshamanism.com: It was in 2010 that a metal detectorist, who opted to remain anonymous, heard the tell-tale bleep notifying him of metal below his feet. He was part of […]
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Complex Societies Before Agriculture: Göbekli Tepe
from SocialEvolutionForum.com: It’s likely no one lived at Göbekli Tepe, a religious sanctuary built by hunter-gatherers. Scientists have excavated less than a tenth of the site—enough to convey the awe […]
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Megalithic Temples of Malta
from Ancient-Origins.net: Everyone knows about the magnificent temples of ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, but one country containing some of the oldest and best-preserved temples in the world gets comparatively […]
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Neolithic Wooden Tridents – A Mystery to Archaeologists
from pasthorizonspr.com: Tullie House Museum in Carlisle, Northwest England, has two rare Neolithic wooden tridents now on display. The artifacts were discovered in 2009 during excavation work, but so far, […]
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Inside the Great Pyramid
from blogs.smithsonianmag.com: “There is a story, regrettably apocryphal, about Napoleon and the Great Pyramid. When Bonaparte visited Giza during his Nile expedition of 1798 (it goes), he determined to spend […]