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Category: Artifacts

AegeanPosted onJune 23, 2021June 25, 2021

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

The second “issue” or Issue 2 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. Visit this page to…

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AegeanPosted onMay 12, 2021May 12, 2021

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

The very first “issue” or Issue 1 of the Digging Up The Past newsletter is officially out! You can read it here. The newsletter will…

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ArtifactsPosted onJanuary 28, 2021April 21, 2021

[Artifacts] A Shrine to Romulus

A shrine dated to the 6th century BCE and believed to be associated with mythical founder of Rome, Romulus, reemerged in an ancient and sacred…

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ArtifactsPosted onJanuary 19, 2021April 21, 2021

[Artifacts] An Old Kingdom Funerary Temple Discovered at Saqqara

On January 17, the discovery of an Old Kingdom Funerary Temple at Saqqara was announced: They also found a four-meter-long papyrus showing chapter 17 of…

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ArtifactsPosted onJanuary 14, 2021January 19, 2021

[Tools] Archaeologists and Egyptologists are now visiting Saqqara in 3D

Saqqara is located 15 km just south of Giza and its cemetery dates back to over 4000 years. Now, archaeologists and Egyptologists are virtually visiting…

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AegeanPosted onJanuary 11, 2021January 11, 2021

[Tools] The Acropolis Museum goes digital…

In recent news: the entire Acropolis Museum goes digital. The doors of Greece’s museums may still be shut to the public due to the countrywide…

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ArtifactsPosted onDecember 29, 2020December 29, 2020

[Artifacts] The mummy’s curse…

  I was cleaning out my office and came across an “old relic” that has been in my possession for nearly 20 years. It is…

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ArtifactsPosted onNovember 24, 2020December 2, 2020

[Tools] AEGARON: Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online

I recently stumbled upon a neat web-based research tool: AEGARON or thee Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online. They describe themselves as: Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online provides…

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ArtifactsPosted onAugust 27, 2020August 31, 2020

[Tools] Virtual Tours of more than 2000 museums and institutions

Museums and cultural institutions have closed their doors as a result of the current pandemic. However, more than 2000 of these institutions have joined forces…

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ArtifactsPosted onAugust 11, 2020August 11, 2020

[Artifacts] Swift-footed Achilles…

Another piece that is part of the Greco-Roman exhibit over at the Art Institute of Chicago, we see a bell krater or a mixing bowl…

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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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