Archaeology Archive
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1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city. -
Rare bronze rams from the First Punic War discovered
Posted on April 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe ten rams (Latin rostra), each weighing around 125 kilogrammes and made of bronze, were mounted on the prow of the warships (ancient triremes or quinquiremes), and were used to ram the enemy ships. -
“An Iron Age Temple Dedicated to Lug?: The henge at Lismullin, County Meath”
Posted on April 19, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper suggests that this Iron Age enclosure may have been connected to worship of the Celtic God Lug. -
The Subsidiary Temple of Nekhtnebef at Tell el-Balamun
Posted on March 28, 2013 | No CommentsThe subsidiary temple constructed by Nekhtnebef (Nectanebo I) as a barque-station on the cross-axis of the Amun-Temple at Tell el-Balamun has been the subject of excavation during various seasons of excavation at the site by the British Museum, most recently in Spring 2004. The accumulated understanding of the monument gained through this work is now sufficient to present some conclusions on its design and how it compares with other temples of the period. -
Research sheds light on ancient Egyptian port and
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsNew research into Thonis-Heracleion, the remains of a port-city that served as the gateway to ancient Egypt, has revealed dozens of sunken ships, which may help give us a better understanding of how maritime trade operated in the Eastern Mediterranean. -
The Second Intermediate Period model coffin of Teti in the British Museum (EA 35016)
Posted on March 26, 2013 | No CommentsThis article publishes the model coffin British Museum EA 35016 bought in 1868 from the Robert J. Hay collection. It belongs to a military official called Teti and dates to the Second Intermediate Period. Its style of decoration with the high number of text columns on the long sides follows closely the full-scale coffins of the period found at Thebes and other places in Upper Egypt. The inscriptions with different spells spoken by gods are quite garbled but also have parallels on coffins of about the same period. -
Roman mausoleum tested for ancient earthquake damage
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsBuilt under a sheer cliff, with a commanding view of the forum and castle in the ancient city of Pinara in Turkey, a Roman mausoleum has been knocked off-kilter, its massive building blocks shifted and part of its pediment collapsed -
The Egyptian Inscriptions at Jebel Dosha, Sudan
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsPending a more detailed survey of the site, I offer here, with the permission of NCAM, a few preliminary observations, with special reference to the Egyptian inscriptions. -
Controversial exhibition on King Herod’s Tomb is featured tonight on Museum Secrets
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsA new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem focusing on an ancient world's most controversial figures is drawing interest from the around the world, as well as creating new controversy -
Little women: gender and hierarchic proportion in Old Kingdom mastaba chapels
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsIn an initial attempt to investigate what variations in comparative scale meant to the ancient Egyptians who created and viewed Egyptian art, I have considered the limited case of the wife represented with her husband in reliefs and paintings in his tomb chapel.
