Archaeological excavation has, historically, operated in a very hierarchical structure, according to archaeologist Allison Mickel. The history of the enterprise is deeply entangled with Western colonial and imperial pursuits, ...
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Apr 22, 2019
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Notre Dame in Paris is not the first great cathedral to suffer a devastating fire, and it probably won't be the last.
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Apr 16, 2019
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Paleontologists are used to finding dinosaur bones and tracks. But remnants of soft tissue, like muscles or skin, are rare and often not well preserved. A very small percentage of tracks – much less than 1% – show skin ...
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Apr 09, 2019
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Deep in the West Bank, Israeli settlers have transformed an archaeological site into a biblical tourist attraction that attracts tens of thousands of evangelical Christians each year.
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Mar 27, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered an ancient workshop used to build and repair ships that dates back to the Ptolemaic era (332 B.C.-30 B.C.) in the Sinai Peninsula.
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Feb 12, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered two ancient tombs dating back to the Roman period in the country's Western Desert.
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Jan 15, 2019
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Excavation work led by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute team has unearthed a large urban villa dating back to the early New Kingdom, about 1500-1450 B.C.E. The findings at the site of Tell Edfu in southern Egypt ...
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Jan 07, 2019
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Greece's culture ministry says archaeologists have located the first tangible remains of a lost ancient city that, according to tradition, was first settled by Trojan war captives after the Greek sack of Troy.
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Nov 13, 2018
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The East Range is still giving up its secrets.
Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 11, 2018
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Jerusalem's Franciscan friars have opened a new museum filled with artifacts related to daily life in Jesus' time.
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Jul 08, 2018
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