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Category: Artifacts

AegeanPosted onOctober 9, 2022

[Featured Article] In Search of Helen of Troy [revised]

Author: Petros Koutoupis Originally published on Ancient Origins (19 October, 2014) but revised. Her face was the face that launched a thousand ships. Considered to…

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AegeanPosted onSeptember 7, 2022

[Newsletter] Digging Up The Past: Latest News – September 2022 NOW AVAILABLE

The eleventh “issue” or Issue 11 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. Visit this page to…

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ArtifactsPosted onJune 3, 2022

[Article] An Earlier Historical Reference to Israel?

The Biblical Archaeological Society just published an article where two Biblical scholars claim to have found a reference to the ancient peoples of Israel predating…

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ArtifactsPosted onMay 19, 2022

[Tools] The Babylonian Chronicles

This isn’t anything new but I was recently reminded of this website and felt the need to share it with others. It is called the…

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ArtifactsPosted onApril 13, 2022April 13, 2022

[Artifacts] A 4,000-Year-Old Mesopotamian Boat Has Been Discovered Near Uruk

In recent Mesopotamian news… …a team of researchers from the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and the German Archaeological Institute has removed a block of…

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ArtifactsPosted onApril 4, 2022April 13, 2022

[Article] Records of the pyramid builders: discovering eye-witness accounts of a legendary construction project

Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner explain how combining text and archaeology can expose the secrets of an extraordinary building project. ‘The papyri run to over…

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AegeanPosted onDecember 3, 2021December 3, 2021

[Newsletter] Digging Up The Past: Quarterly Digest – Fall 2021 NOW AVAILABLE

The seventh “issue” or Issue 7 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. This issue is a…

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AegeanPosted onOctober 19, 2021

[Newsletter] Digging Up The Past: Monthly Digest – October 2021 NOW AVAILABLE

The sixth “issue” or Issue 6 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. This month we learn…

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AegeanPosted onSeptember 15, 2021

[Newsletter] Digging Up The Past: Monthly Digest – September 2021 NOW AVAILABLE

The fifth “issue” or Issue 5 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. Hot off the presses,…

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AegeanPosted onAugust 16, 2021

[Newsletter] Digging Up The Past: Monthly Digest – August 2021 NOW AVAILABLE

The fourth “issue” or Issue 4 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. It is difficult to…

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About Me

I see myself as a “literary archaeologist.” No field work is required. The purpose of this self appointed and non-existent discipline is to marry two fields which do not cooperate very well with each other: archaeology and literary studies. The texts are historical artifacts and must be treated as such.

 

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