Fifth and sixth graders can experience a cool blast to the ancient past - without their mummies.
Cal State San Bernardino once again offers the popular Summer Egyptian Art Workshops to budding artists and archaeologists from throughout the Inland Empire.
Kids can learn about ancient art and archaeology during two sessions, July 12-15. Mornings, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; and afternoons, from 3 to 6 p.m., at Cal State's Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, 5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino.
Ancient Indian burial site uncovered
ROCKPORT, Ind. -- Remains found at an Indian burial site in southern Indiana are likely 2,000 to 4,000 years old, a state archaeologist said.
Jim Mohow, senior archaeologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, said the site was significant because fire pits or hearths also were found along with the burials.
"This is certainly an above average site," he told the Evansville Courier & Press for a story today. "It holds significantly more information about Indiana's prehistoric past than the average site."
A backhoe operator unearthed two skeletons while working on a construction project in western Spencer County. The property owner contacted the Sheriff's Department, which then notified the DNR.
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We reported on this story Monday, but these have more detail.
Hierakonpolis Interactive Dig update Nubians at Hierakonpolis: Week 5, Part 2
We had made good progress in the analysis and examination of most of our finds, but we had to wait for the physical anthropologists to provide answers for perhaps the most important aspect of any cemetery excavations: who were the people buried there. When physical anthropologists Bernadette Dickman from Belfast, Ireland, and Sean Dougherty from Indiana University, Bloomington, arrived and were finally able to stand upright (they had an unfortunate run in with a bad bowl of guacamole while in transit and it stayed with them for some time), we had many questions for them, especially with regard to Tomb 9--just who was the owner of all that fancy leather?
"they had an unfortunate run in with a bad bowl of guacamole while in transit and it stayed with them for some time"
TMI! TMI!
Don't sit under the Bodhi tree. . .with anyone else but me. . . Buddha's new birthplace discovered
A team of archeological experts from Orissa say their recent findings at the Kapileshwar village may help establish the small hamlet as the birthplace of Lord Buddha, instead of Lumbini, in Nepal. Officials at the Orissa State Museum, which conducted the excavation, said that the new findings, which included artefacts dating back to 6th century BC, supported the claims of Kapileshwar being Lord Buddha's birthplace. Buddhism was founded in India, when Lord Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, attained supreme enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya in 6th century B.C.
Pioneering archaeological research charts African links with the Roman world
University of Southampton archaeologists Professor David Peacock and Dr Lucy Blue have just returned from a pioneering expedition investigating Roman sites in the East African country of Eritrea alongside colleagues from the University of Asmara. The University group is the first from the UK to work in the country since it won its independence more than a decade ago. They are already planning to return to this remote area on the shores of the Red Sea, previously part of Ethiopia.
Investigations centre on the ancient settlement of Adulis, which was known in Roman times as a fair sized settlement and mentioned in ancient chronicles as a key port in trade with India.
The researchers also believe they have found the site of the 6th century harbour of Adulis, known as Gabaza and a mausoleum called Samidi, both hitherto only known from documentary sources.
‘These exciting discoveries are of greatest significance and it is quite remarkable that we were led to them by a map drawn in the 6th century,’ said Professor Peacock. The map appears in a Christian topographical text written in the 6th century by a trader turned monk, to promote his belief that the earth was flat, not spherical.
Note: Contrary to popular myth, Columbus (Christopher) did not set out to prove the Earth was round/spherical. That had been known in many circles for some time, and even in Europe the 'flat Earth hypothesis' was not particularly in vogue. Columbus was, in part, trying to demonstrate that the circumference of the Earth was much smaller than previously believed, and by going west to find Asia, he thought it would be less expensive than going around Africa. Turns out he was wrong and would have failed in spectacular fashion had he not run into the New World en route.
'Titanic' wreck being destroyed by tourists, marine expert warns
The wreck of the Titanic is being slowly destroyed by tour operators, film crews and trophy hunters who have stripped more than 6,000 objects from the ship since it was discovered on the Atlantic seabed in 1985.
Robert Ballard, who found the Titanic, said that a "circus" has developed around the shipwreck over the past 20 years despite it being the last resting place of the people who drowned when it struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912.
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The conference was slated for last march but had to be postponed for unspecified reasons. Six foreign experts as well as 19 domestic experts are scheduled to address the conference.
Thus far we have refrained from making any references to A Flock of Seagulls but there is some doubt how long we can continue to do so.
Keeping up with the empire
The Roman Empire has been well documented. Over the years written history and archaeology have brought to the surface, sometimes literally unearthed, a whole society. Thus Roman architecture, religion, military strategy and legal structures hold little mystery. Compared to this depth of knowledge, many of those living outside the boundaries of the Empire are lost in time. But now an archaeological excavation in the north of the Netherlands had begun to tell the story of the Roman's neighbours.
At first glance the "De Bloemert" excavation, in the northern province of Drenthe and named after the holiday resort De Bloemert, seems an archaeological site like any other; dark colourations in the ground, people digging carefully, artefacts and broken pottery being photographed, nothing unusual. But according to Johan Nicolai, archaeologist from the University of Groningen and project leader of the excavation, this dig is very special indeed.