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Arhcaeogate's Staff is very proud to publish the text of Prof. Miroslav Verner's communication during the Workshop "Costruire le Piramidi - tecniche costruttive nell'Antico Egitto", held in Turin on 2006, May the 24th, in memory of Celeste Rinaldi (e Vito Maragioglio), two important, unforgettable scholars. (Italian, with English translation beneath)by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
I asked if political comment on this topic could be avoided (difficult, I appreciate). However, I think that the time has now come to close the thread.by Hermione - Ancient History
Uhh ... gentlemen ... I'm sure this is a fascinating subject, and I'm glad you seem to be enjoying it ... but the sub-thread seems to have drifted off-topic rather ... if you want to continue this discussion, do you think you could do so over on Coffee? Thanks!by Hermione - Ancient History
LIMA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists in Peru have found 40 mummies dating from the 1,200-year-old Chachapoyas culture in the Amazon fortress of Kuelap, project leader Alfredo Narvaez told local media on Wednesday.by Hermione - Ancient History
Submerged stone structures lying just below the waters off Yonaguni Jima are actually the ruins of a Japanese Atlantis—an ancient city sunk by an earthquake about 2,000 years ago. That's the belief of Masaaki Kimura, a marine geologist at the University of the Ryukyus in Japan who has been diving at the site to measure and map its formations for more than 15 years.by Hermione - Laboratory
LUCKNOW: Archaeologists have discovered a copper hoard believed to be nearly 4,000-years-old near a village in Uttar Pradesh's Auraiya district, raising hopes of its radiocarbon dating and understanding the culture and chronology of that period.by Hermione - Ancient History
A trove of the oldest human skeletal bones outside Africa is reported in Nature this week — a find that will help researchers to improve their understanding of the biology of the 1.8-million-year-old hominins.by Hermione - Laboratory
Luxor/Cairo - A collection of new kingdom pillars, lintels and reliefs were accidentally found by Egyptian restorers from the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny said Thursday.by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
During a press conference held this morning at the ASTROLAB of Mont-Megantic, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) has awarded the status of "International Dark Sky Reserve" to a 5500 square km area surrounding the Mont-Megantic Observatory and the National Park of Mont-Megantic.by Hermione - Laboratory
From Alaska to Australia, hundreds of languages around the world are teetering on the brink of extinction—some being spoken only by a single person, according to a new study.by Hermione - Humanities
Bulgarian archaeologist Professor Kazimir Popkonstantikov announced Wednesday he has found a thrilling inscription in ancient Bulgarian language at the wall of a stone tomb near the town of Veliki Preslav.by Hermione - Ancient History
A slow, lethal combination of external pressures including warfare, rather than a lack of natural resources, led to the demise of the Cherokee Indians, two new studies suggest.by Hermione - Ancient History
Thanks, Bernard.by Hermione - Ancient History
I find the whole thing absolutely heartbreaking. We have a few fairly antiquated copies of the British Museum Bulletin, some of which contain articles about earlier excavations carried out by British archaeological teams in Iraq; they express gratitude to their Iraqi counterparts for all the help and assistance that they provided. I dread to think what has since become of the sites that were exby Hermione - Ancient History
A Compendium of Beautiful Librariesby Hermione - Paper Lens
Welcome to Ma'at, Sam! If you happen to come across anything that you think might be of interest to any of the half-dozen boards here, do post them! It's never easy finding well written articles ...by Hermione - Ancient History
Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would point out that the author of this piece is > Robert Fisk, a journalist > with a notorious political agenda and history of > shall we say 'misrepresentation'? > In other words it may be a mistake to take this > article at face value. Fisk is hardly the only journalist to havby Hermione - Ancient History
The Last Legion (I've not seen it ... I usually get these things several years later on TV ... )by Hermione - Paper Lens
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am slowly getting my > websites back online . They have always been on my > hard drive but since I switched to D-Link I have > not been streaming as I have been unable to get > around the built in firewall. However I stumbled > onto a great alternative and that is called > MediaMax which givby Hermione - Coffee Shop
In late July, archaeologists and students from four universities in three countries - Israel, Germany and Canada - converged on a remote, blisteringly hot hilltop in the northern Negev. Their goal was to perform the first ever archaeological excavation of a Philistine agricultural village, as compared to an urban area or a tel.by Hermione - Ancient History
If the discussion could stay on topic ... please ...by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
Roxana Cooper Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yeah. What a shame Saddam, with his respect for > ancient history, wasn't left > in power! No political comment, please, Roxana ... > BTW aren't Summerian cities rather older > than 2,000 years?? They certainly are ... and that misprint appeared on the front page of the Independenby Hermione - Ancient History
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I wish I could express what I feel I'm sure that many people who read the article must feel the same way, Don.by Hermione - Ancient History
Bulgarian archaeologists unearthed an ancient Thracian tomb during the weekend while making urgent excavations near the village of Cherniche.by Hermione - Ancient History
Archaeologists excavating a site at at Pode Hole Quarry near Peterborough, have discovered a significant Bronze Age burial site.by Hermione - Ancient History
I, the obelisk of Seti I and of his son Ramses II, was born and raised a devoted Egyptian in spite of my current address.by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
History and chemistry are intersecting on the lowlands of the coastal region of southern Mexico.by Hermione - Ancient History
Two fossils found in Kenya raise evolutionary questions.by Hermione - Laboratory
Anthony Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some pseudohistorian bozo I don't think it's absolutely necessary to refer to people who hold alternative views in quite these terms ...by Hermione - Ancient Egypt
There was something that looked very similar in advance of the Da Vinci Code film.by Hermione - Paper Lens