Archaeology

Iron Age: Workers At Slaves' Hill Were Not Slaves

In 1934, American archaeologist Nelson Glueck named one of the largest known copper production sites of the Levant, located deep in Israel's Arava Valley, "Slaves' Hill." This hilltop station seemed to bear all the marks of an Iron Age ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2014 - 11:04am

Studying The Silk Tunics And Relics Of St. Ambrose

Archaeologists and restorers, are preserving and studying 4th-century tunics ascribed to St. Ambrose. In the course of examining the valuable silk garments, they have made surprising scholarly discoveries regarding the development of early relic worship. B ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2014 - 10:32am

Who Was Dangerous Enough To Make Vikings Build Fortresses? Other Vikings

South of Copenhagen, Danish archaeologists have done something that has not happened in over 60 years- they have found a previously undiscovered Viking fortress. It will be a surprise to most that Vikings built fortresses at all- they were the people that ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2014 - 9:30am

The Hidden Archaeology Of Stonehenge Revealed

Previously unknown archaeological monuments have been discovered around Stonehenge as part of a digital mapping project that will transform our knowledge of this iconic landscape – including remarkable new findings on the world's largest 'super ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2014 - 8:18pm

1,500 Years Old: One The World’s Earliest Surviving Christian Charms Found

A 1,500 year old papyrus fragment contains some of the earliest documented references to the Last Supper and ‘manna from heaven’. Dr. Roberta Mazza of the University of Manchester came across the Greek ‘amulet’ while working on thousands of fragments of un ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2014 - 7:30am

Ethics, Group Psychology And Meteora – A Tour Group Dilemma

Metoera. Credit:Panos Photographia/Flickr By Steve Ellen, Monash University Everyday life is full of mini-ethical moments. Do you own up to being under charged? Do you push in when the traffic is heavy and you’re running late? Do you hassle your kid’s tea ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 18 2014 - 2:30pm

325,000 Year Old Stone Age Site In Armenia Leads To Human Technology Rethink

Artifacts from a 325,000-year-old site in Armenia finds that human technological innovation occurred intermittently throughout the Old World, rather than spreading from a single point of origin (usually hypothesized as Africa), as previously thought.  ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2014 - 11:00am

The Enemy Of Archaeology Is Not People, It's Salt

By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science-- The enemy of archeology everywhere is salt. It destroys buildings, disassembles art works, and can turn ancient pottery into piles of dust. How salt lays waste to these artifacts is well known, but scientists in Switze ...

Article - Joel Shurkin - May 25 2015 - 11:07am

40,000 Year Old Rock Art Found In Indonesia

A close up of one of the hand stencils found in the prehistoric caves in Indonesia. Credit: Kinez Riza, Author provided By Paul S.C.Taçon, Griffith University; Adam Brumm, Griffith University, and Maxime Aubert, Griffith University ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 9 2014 - 8:31am

Stunning Finds From Ancient Greek Shipwreck

An international team has retrieved antiquities including tableware, ship components, and a giant bronze spear that would have belonged to a life-sized warrior statue from an ancient Greek ship that sank more than 2,000 years ago off the remote island of ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2014 - 7:30am