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Dayan, a keen amateur archaeologist, explores his finds in the context of familiar biblical texts.Israel Faces and Places(also 1978) was prefaced byGolda Meir, following Levine’s spontaneous request. At her Rehavia home, Meir served her tea and...
Ever since 1873 when the German businessman and archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, following the evidence of Homer’s Iliad,found the remnants of a grand metropolis – now Hisarlik in modern […] Babylonian tablet preserves student’s 4,000-year-old geometry mistake 8 Feb 2025· by Guestspeaker...
Long-lost jewelry from King Tut's tomb rediscovered a century later - "Some of this jewelry may have been taken out of Egypt by Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who led the excavation that uncovered the tomb." Looted landmarks: how Notre-Dame, Big Ben & St Mark's were stolen ...
Machu Picchu: Inca site ‘has gone by wrong name for over 100 years’ - "Peruvian historian and US archaeologist say the pre-Columbian town was called Huayna Picchu by the Inca people." Mapped: All the world's 1,031 World Heritage Sites - The Telegraph. Marie Antoinette's Versailles apar...
ongoing efforts to translate Etruscan, a language mostly known from tombstones and ossuaries.Heaven’s Vaultillustrates the creativity and intellectual flexibility needed to fill in the blanks when translating a language with almost no text examples. It almost makes you feel like a real archaeologist...