In March, a Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) mission restoring the temple at Dendera uncovered the main chapel of the temple where the sacred boat of the goddess Hathor once stood. The boat found by the archaeologists, who have been working in Dendera since the beginning of the year, was used during the goddess's annual festival, one of the most delightful celebrations in Ancient Egypt.
An artist's rendering of what Hathor may have looked like:
Port Angeles: Remains of more than 50 Klallam ancestors uncovered at graving yard site
Less than a month after archaeological excavations started at the graving yard site, Lower Elwha Klallam tribal officials say hundreds of artifacts and the remains of more than 50 Klallam ancestors have been discovered.
``Over a dozen of our ancestors have been found intact,'' said Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Secretary/Treasurer Frances G. Charles.
``This site is a burial area, and we know will find many, many more.''
The state Department of Transportation's planned graving yard for Hood Canal Bridge components is located where a Klallam village named Tse-whit-zen once stood.
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Antiquities Market updateViking Artifacts Found for Sale on Web
Viking swords, knives and horse harnesses dating to the year 800 were discovered for sale on a Web site run by a Michigan auction house, and an archaeologist said Thursday he has asked the Swedish government to help return them.
Christian Runeby, who oversees the collection and preservation of antiquities on the Baltic sea island of Gotland, said the items were removed from Sweden and taken to the United States.
"We can only regret that they are there. It's like ripping out a page from a history book that can never be replaced," Runeby said, adding that no permits were issued for their removal.
The link provided for the selling firm's site was unavailable at the time of this writing.
Not terribly important. But vaguely interesting. 6,000-year-old human skull found in Shanghai
The skull of a man believed to have lived more than 6,000 years ago was dug up in Shanghai’s Qingpu District, the Shanghai Daily reported Thursday.
Researchers believe the man was aged 25 to 30 when he died.
The skull was excavated from February to April at the Qingpu District site called Songze Ancient Culture Ruins, which was first found in 1957.
Not archaeology, but way cool anyway Mass Extinction Crater Pinpointed
Geologists may have finally found the cause of the greatest mass extinction event in the Earth's history: a gigantic meteorite impact that slammed down 250 million years ago at a location called Bedout in what is now the Indian Ocean.
"We were absolutely flabbergasted when we saw the material from Bedout," said University of Rochester geochemist Robert Poreda, a member of the team that published a paper on the discovery in this week's issue of the journal Science.
Some background information on the Permian extinction can be found here.
Fernbank Museum Receives Priceless World-Class Collection
In 1981, a group of archaeologists announced the discovery of a lost mission site abandoned more than 300 years earlier on a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. Through three years of excavations and the research that ensued, lead archaeologist, Dr. David Hurst Thomas, quickly realized the impact of their findings.
Between 3000 BCE and 1680 CE*, St. Catherines Island, Ga. saw a fusion of world cultures as the Natives, Spanish, Africans and British all passed through this 14,000-acre island, 50 miles south of Savannah.