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 be more than 4,000 years old, the artifact may be the earliest representation of one of the principal gods in primitive South American religion. The…
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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 was brought up by Mary and Joseph. The house is partly made of mortar-and-stone walls, and was cut into a rocky hillside. It was first…
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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 of Science in San Jose, California. The project, which has already been awarded $1.9m grant from the European Research Council, will include conducting laser scans…
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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 America, according to a report in The Morning Call. Using historical maps and geophysical research, the archaeological team located the building’s foundations, which they began…
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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 Art hypothesizes that some of the dolmens make a loud, clanging noise when struck, producing a high–pitched sound similar to a large bell being rung.…
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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 complex — which was discovered near Hura, a Bedouin village in the northern Negev Desert — measures 65 feet by 115 feet. It is arranged…
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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 a club detecting over land near Selby in Yorkshire. Digging gently down, and hoping to find a Roman coin, the metal detectorist was astonished when…
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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 it must have inspired 7,000 years before Stonehenge. (National Geographic, June 2011) There is no question that Göbekli Tepe is a spectacular site. But it…
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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 little attention – Malta. Malta is a southern European country in the Mediterranean Sea, just 80 kilometres south of Sicily. The country covers just over…
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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, despite much examination and discussion, these 6000 year old objects have baffled archaeologists as to their intended function. Only four other similar tridents exist in…
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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 a night alone inside the King’s Chamber, the granite-lined vault that lies precisely in the center of the pyramid. This chamber is generally acknowledged as…