33 minutes ago by mburgan

When I was a kid, my father pulled out an old arrowhead that came from somewhere around our house. I don’t know if he had found it; maybe the workmen who built our house had. Sadly, I also don’t know where it ended up, that little piece of Connecticut history. If I still had that arrowhead, I could ...

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1 hour ago by rosejudson

Coin from a Queen of the Sassanid Empire, 630 AD Here’s a really fantastic animated map from some folks at Maps of War that takes you through more than 53,000 years of the history of the Middle East and Mediterranean Basin in 90 seconds. It’s a simple, graphic, illuminating depiction of how often th ...

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2 hours ago by veigapaula

The Christian Monastery of Saint Anthony, or Deir Mar Antonios, is the the first ever monastery, and lies at the coast of the Red Sea, to the east of the Fayum oasis. Dedicated to St Anthony, it was founded in 356 AD immediately after the saint's death, and is now the oldest Christian monastery stil ...

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3 hours ago by ardashir

Some footage from the Discovery Channel about the lost army of Cambyses in the Egyptian desert. Man, just look at all those bones! http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeology-ancient-lost-army-found.html On a side note, I do hope my entries about scientific and scholarly discoveries are drawing as ...

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3 hours ago by owenjarus

After 3,000 years it’s appears all but certain that the husband of the mummy of Djedmaatesankh has been found. We know from her coffin that his name is Paankhntof. She was a musician at the temple of Amun-Re in Thebes - he was a doorkeeper at the same temple (actually something of an important posit ...

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4 hours ago by Ann

When visiting King Tutankhamun's tomb - or its virtual counterpart King Tut Virtual - did you ever notice the strange brown spots on the wall paintings? They definitely were not there when Howard Carter discovered KV62 in 1922, and nobody knows what is causing them, not even Dr. Zahi Hawass: "I alwa ...

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4 hours ago by Medievalists.net

Archaeologists have finished recovering a 600-year-old ship from Lake Constance discovered near a medieval Benedictine abbey in Germany. The wreck was discovered in shallow waters off the lake’s Reichenau Island by an ice skater in the winter of 2006. Subsequent dives and carbon testing by archaeolo ...

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5 hours ago by Jim

One of the features of Google’s 3-d drawing program that is quite useful is the ‘model warehouse’. In it you can find loads, and I mean loads of stuff already modeled and all you have to do is download it. Here’s a copy of Herod’s temple which you can manipulate as you wish- decorating, expanding, c ...

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7 hours ago by Ann

'Reclaiming King Arthur' - a video produced by the University of Wales, Newport, aims to bring to life the legend of King Arthur, by examining historic evidence and the literary tradition which points to Gwent as the home of this famous character as well as to introduce an international audience to ...

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8 hours ago by Helen Atkinson

For Richard Burger, archaeology has turned up many surprising things. This includes romance, which blossomed when he met his archaeologist wife, Lucy Salazar, at a dig in her native Peru. “Sites are not all that romantic. There’s too much work!” says Burger. Luckily, however, nearby Lima was in the ...

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