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Thursday, 02 September 2010 03:56 |
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Haaretz reports:
"An archaeological site near Sakhnin has turned up evidence of a ritual meal going back some 12,000 years, far earlier than researchers had previously thought such events took place. Over the years archaeologists have found considerable evidence of large-scale funeral feasts from the Neolithic (New Stone Age ) era onward. That period was characterized by the rise of agriculture, which spurred mankind's transition from a nomadic to a sedentary way of life. That revolutionary...
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:43 |
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The Daily Telegraph is reporting that a team of researchers from Spain's Higher Council for Scientific Study (CSIC) are examining a marshy area of Andalusian parkland to find evidence of a 3,000-year-old settlement. They believe that Tartessos, a wealthy civilization in southern Iberia that predates the Phoenicians, may have had its capital in the heart of what is now the Donana national park.
Until now historians had dismissed the region as a possible site believing that it had been...
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Monday, 11 January 2010 23:57 |
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The long-awaited official report into the excavations of the Gozo Stone (aka Brockdorff) Circle in Xaghra – a unique underground prehistoric burial site near Ggantija temples – may have rewritten Maltese history in more ways than one: by failing to properly acknowledge that the site was originally discovered by Gozitan historian Joseph Attard Tabone, whose extensive research led to its precise relocation in 1965.
Edited by Caroline Malone – wife of archaeologist Prof. David Trump, who...
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Monday, 11 January 2010 23:05 |
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Although the temple was discovered inside Aleppo Citadel in 1929-1930, it has been until the conclusion of a 12 season excavation project by a Syrian-German team that began in 1996, that a full picture of the find has been emerged. The temple dates to 3,000 BC and was dedicated to Hadad, the Semitic storm and rain god, cognate with the Assyrian Adad.
The temple sheds light on important periods in the history of the city, particularly its religious significance during the time of the Yamhad...
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Monday, 11 January 2010 23:51 |
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The AFP is reporting that Iraqi archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old Sumerian settlement in southern Iraq, in the southern province of Dhi Qar, is in the desert near ancient Ur, the biblical birthplace of Abraham.
Sumerian writings, dating back to the era of the third Sumerian dynasty have also been found, as well as artefacts, which include sickles and knives, largely dateing back to around 2000 BC, during the rule of King Amarsin, the third king of the third Sumerian...
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