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Herod to Hadrian, Part 1

 

David deSilva

 

 

Herod to Hadrian, Pt 2

 

David deSilva 

 

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Technology

 

From Stonehenge to Nefertiti: How High-Tech Archaeology is Transforming Our View of History

 

December 28, 2016 | The Conversation

 

Kristian Strutt, University of Southampton

 

"A recent discovery could radically change our views of one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites, Tutankhamun’s tomb. Scans of the complex in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings revealed it may still include undiscovered chambers – perhaps even the resting place of Queen Nefertiti – even though we have been studying the tomb for almost 100 years."

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Published On: Thu, Dec 29th, 2016

 

New App Offers Users Virtual Tours Of Ancient Jerusalem

 

"A new VR app has been released in time for the Chanukah holiday. Lithodomos VR‘s tool allows users to see Jerusalem as it once looked back in antiquity when the Temple still stood.

 

The idea is simple. When tourists visit sites in Jerusalem such as the Western Wall Plaza and the areas around it they see things as they look now, 2,000 years after it was all destroyed by the Romans. Imagine if when looking up at the Temple you could see how it once looked when the Second Temple — as it was fully renovated by Herod — stood in all of its glory. Well now you can with the help of virtual reality goggles."

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Open Access Ancient Language Textbooks and Primers

 

[Most recently updated 2 January 2016]

 

Open Access Textbooks and Language Primers relating to the ancient world

 

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Unprecedented Work At Auschwitz To Preserve Holocaust Site

 

1/14/2017 10:00:00 PM

 

Brick by brick, plank by plank, workers at the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau carefully clean its barracks to preserve the Holocaust symbol for future generations.

 

 

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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 2017

 

Open Access Journal: The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture

 

[First posted in AWOL 4 November 2009. Updated 15 January 2017]

 

The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture - ISSN: 1754-517X

 

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Archaeologists Find Huge Crypt with Early Christian Martyrs' Bones in Roman, Byzantine City Zaldapa in Northeast Bulgaria

 

January 19, 2017 · by Ivan Dikov · in Ancient Rome / Roman Empire, Antiquity, Byzantine Empire, Christianity, Middle Ages

 

"A second crypt, even larger than the one found in 2015, and human bones which probably belonged to Early Christian martyrs, have been discovered by archaeologists in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine city of Zaldapa in Northeast Bulgaria.

 

The ruins of the originally Ancient Thracian settlement, and later the largest Late Roman and Early Byzantine city in today’s Northeast Bulgaria, and one of the largest in the Roman province of Scythia Minor are located near the town of Abrit, Krushari Municipality."

 

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Cyber-Archaeology at UC San Diego – Introducing the New 3-D CAVEkiosk

 

January 2017

 

By: Thomas E. Levy

 

"The University of California San Diego’s futuristic Geisel Library has unveiled its first virtual-reality 3-D display system. The life-size CAVEkiosk (“cave automated virtual environment”) will also allow researchers to analyze and visualize 3-D data from at-risk archaeological sites in Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Greece, Morocco, and Cyprus."

 

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Top 10 Biblical Archaeology Discoveries in 2016

 

Revisit the year’s most exciting Biblical archaeology finds

 

Robin Ngo  •  12/30/2016

 

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Danish Archaeologists Find 3,500-year-old Gemstones

 

Discovery on Kuwaiti island sheds light on previously unknown period

 

January 24th, 2017 7:45 pm| by Ray W Facebooktwittergoogle_pluspinterestmail

 

"Danish archaeologists from Moesgaard Museum have discovered the remains of a jewellery workshop on a small island in Kuwait, which includes semi-precious stones that are 3,500 years old.

 

The discovery provides new knowledge about a somewhat unknown period in history, according to videnskab.dk"

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Iron Age Secrets Exhumed from Riches-Filled Crypt

 

Treasures point to trade links between Central Europe, Mediterranean cultures

 

BY BRUCE BOWER 2:00PM, FEBRUARY 2, 2017

 

Magazine issue: Vol. 191 No. 4, March 4, 2017, p. 17

"Discoveries in a richly appointed 2,600-year-old burial chamber point to surprisingly close ties between Central Europe’s earliest cities and Mediterranean societies. Dated to 583 B.C., this grave also helps pin down when people inhabited what may have been the first city north of the Alps."

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Abu Dhabi Archaeologists Unearth Rare, Well-Preserved Stone Age House

 

 2/02/2017 07:00:00 PM

 

"Archaeologists have revealed the discovery of what they describe as one of the most remarkable and rare finds in the Gulf region – a 7,500-year-old, well-preserved three-room house."

 

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Swiss Archaeologist Shines Light on Sudan's Buried Past

 

Jay Deshmukh

 

AFP February 11, 2017

Khartoum (AFP) - "A veteran Swiss archaeologist has unearthed three temples in Sudan built thousands of years ago, a discovery he says promises to throw new light on Africa's buried ancient past.

 

The round and oval shaped structures dating from 1,500 to 2,000 BC were found late last year not far from the famed archaeological site of Kerma in northern Sudan."

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The Etruscans, Phoenicians, and Tartessos

Feb 12, 2017  Andrew Selkirk, Articles, Features  2

 

Andrew Selkirk writes:

 

"Having finished writing my magnum opus on the Greeks, I thought I should take a quick look at their rivals in the Mediterranean at that time — the Etruscans, the Phoenicians, and Tartessos —  and to try to see how they rose, and how eventually they were gobbled up by the Greeks and Romans."

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What Language(s) Did the Philistines Speak?

February 2017
 

By: Dr. Brent Eric Davis, University of Melbourne

 

"The evidence that we have for the language(s) spoken by the Philistines is not plentiful, but what we do have is interesting (though far from conclusive). Two types of evidence predominate: (1) inscriptions that may have been produced by Philistines, and (2) Philistine words and names borrowed into other languages of the region and recorded (however imperfectly) in non-Philistine records."

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Palm Reading
 

February 14, 2017 Oliver Hoover

"It is that time of year. The holidays have come and long gone, leaving nothing but the bills. Here in Canada it is the time of year when the days are cold and dreary. It is the time of year when the polar bears and dire wolves stalk the land while the minds of writers turn to excessive hyperbole. It is the dead of winter. The fortunate have all escaped to warmer and more pleasant climates, usually Florida. For the unfortunate, the briefest thought of the beaches, the sun, and the palm trees can provide that fraction of a difference in making it through the day (Fig. 1)."

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Ancient Carving Shows Stylishly Plump African Princess
 

By Owen Jarus, Live Science Contributor | January 3, 2013 09:07am ET

"A 2,000-year-old relief carved with an image of what appears to be a, stylishly overweight, princess has been discovered in an "extremely fragile" palace in the ancient city of Meroë, in Sudan, archaeologists say."

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RELIGION REVISITED
 

How a Translation Mistake Ended up Making India a Part of the Bible

"Whether medieval Christians saw India as a symbol of evil or as the home of saints, the Subcontinent remained a source of fascination."

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Elyonim veTachtonim

23 March 2017
 

Electronic inventory of angels, demons and ghosts in the early rabbinic literature

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February 23, 2017

 

Free Asia Minor Wall Map

 

(Post by A.D. Riddle)

 

"The Ancient World Mapping Center is making available for free download their wall map of Asia Minor. The blog post from yesterday reads:"

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Ancient Sanctuary From Obscure Religion That Competed With Christianity Unearthed in Corsica

 

Dedicated to the god Mithra, it is the first ever discovered on the island.

By Léa Surugue

Updated February 24, 2017 14:08 GMT

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Unearthing 2,000 Years Of History In Central Algiers

 

 3/13/2017 06:30:00 PM

"An archaeological treasure trove on the site of a planned metro station in central Algiers is set to become a museum, opening a window on 2,000 years of history."
 

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"Reading" in Bones - New Facts on the Social Life Organisation in Ancient Mesopotamia

 

20.03.2017 

 

"Analysis of the bone remains leads to conclusions about the social life in ancient Mesopotamia. It seems, for example, that physical violence in the area was less common than suggested by historical sources - argues Dr. Arkadiusz Sołtysiak.

 

Bioarchaeologist from the Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw, reviewed all publications concerning the burial grounds in Mesopotamia, the ancient land in the Middle East, located in the basin of the Tigris and Euphrates (mainly present territory of Iraq and Syria)."

 

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Do You Get to Keep What You Find?

 

By: Eric Cline

 

"There is one question that I am asked all the time, which has a short answer but is long on associated implications. The question is simply “Do you get to keep what you find?” The answer is very short: “No.” Whether you’re working in your own country or in a country other than your own, that nation’s antiquities department will have a set of rules. The best discoveries might go to a national or regional museum, as has been true throughout the history of archaeology, but most of the material will be put into bags and boxes and stored at the local university, museum, or some other place where graduate students and other scholars can come in and study the material during the months (or even years) after the excavation. A six- or seven-week field season can yield enough material for two years or more of study and published findings."

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ASOR Blog

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Paphos Tomb Probably Belonged To Ptolemy Prince

 

 3/30/2017 07:30:00 PM

 

"Archaeologists have announced that they have made a very important discovery after initial estimates link a tomb unearthed at the Tombs of the Kings area in Paphos, with that of a 12-year-old Ptolemy prince, who died in Cyprus in 150BC, and who was the dynasty’s co-regent at the time."

 

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