Jun 18 2010

Archaeologists Hot on Trail of Aztec Royalty

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology, Archaeology of the Americas — Zahra Hirji @ 7:35 pm
Archaeologists are finding elaborate offerings at a dig site they believe will ultimately yield an elusive prize: the tomb of an Aztec emperor, the first of its kind.

Jun 16 2010

Airport Scanners Take on Mummies

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, DNA, Mummies, Science — Rossella Lorenzi @ 6:30 pm
Scientists experiment with using airport body scanners for a less controversial purpose: screening ancient mummies.

Jun 09 2010

Pagan Antiquities Unearthed in Israel

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology, Near East and Middle East Archaeology, Religion and Spirituality — Rossella Lorenzi @ 6:09 pm
Israeli archeologists have found a large cache of intact pagan vessels piled one atop the other in a natural hollow of bedrock in Tel Qashish, southeast of Haifa. Used by the ancient Canaanite people in a pagan cult that worshiped ...

May 26 2010

Mesoamericans Were The First Polymer Scientists

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology, Archaeology of the Americas, Science — Rossella Lorenzi @ 5:19 pm
Ancient Mesoamerican peoples manufactured rubber from latex some 3,500 years before the modern invention of vulcanization and even compounded it for different applications.

May 24 2010

2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Creates Deep Sea Mystery

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Rome, Archaeology, Shipwreck, Underwater Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 6:25 pm
Was the “Ship of the Thousand Ingots” deliberately sunk on the orders of the captain? Or was this shipwreck just an accident?

May 17 2010

Temple of Tut’s Grandfather May Hide Avenue of Statues

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Near East and Middle East Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 2:58 pm
A massive granite statue of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of wisdom, has been dug out at the site.

May 13 2010

114 Terracotta Warriors Rise In New Excavation

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Archaeology, Asia and Far East Archaeology, Conservation — Rossella Lorenzi @ 7:34 pm
Over one hundred brightly colored terracotta warriors have emerged from the Chinese site of the Terracotta Army in Xi'an.

May 11 2010

Ancient Egyptian ‘Nilometer’ Helped Measure River’s Height

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Near East and Middle East Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 6:23 pm
The structure was among several new discoveries at the so-called Avenue of Sphinxes.

May 11 2010

Headless Statue of Ancient Egyptian King? Unearthed

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Near East and Middle East Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 4:58 pm
A headless granite statue of a Ptolemaic king has emerged from the ruins of an ancient Egyptian limestone temple believed to be the burial site of Queen Cleopatra and her lover Mark Antony.

May 07 2010

Headless Statue Hints at Tomb of Cleopatra: Hawass

Tag: Ancient Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Archaeology, Near East and Middle East Archaeology — Rossella Lorenzi @ 2:47 pm
Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, tells Discovery News why the findings at Taposiris Magna (today called Abusir) are important.
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