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High ResolutionNew Acropolis Museum, Athens,Greece.
Νέο Μουσείο Ακρόπολης, Αθήνα.
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Archaeological fieldwork and Rape
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High ResolutionThe Museum of Witchcraft, Boscastle, United Kingdom. This is the skull of Joan Wytte, she was born in 1775 in Bodmin, Cornwall. She was sometimes called the “Fighting Fairy Woman” or the “Wytte (White) Witch”. Her bones were disinterred and used for séances and various pranks, then later displayed at the Witchcraft Museum in Boscastle, Cornwall. In 1990 the museum was put in the hands of Graham King, who organized a burial for the skeleton of Joan Wytte.
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High ResolutionThe pre-Columbian archaeological site of Ciudad Perdida (Spanish for “Lost City”), located in Sierra Nevada, Colombia, thought to be founded about 800 AD.
Photo courtesy & taken by Raphael Chay
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High ResolutionSYMBOLS & MYSTICISM # 9
Eyes without a face
Workers restoring the newly relocated temple of Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1968 created by King Ramesses Il during the 12th Century B.C.
More insight on the salvage of the temple from the encroached Lake Nasser | read more.
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Although archaeological illustration shares many things with scientific illustration it has its own conventions and techniques. Here are a few recommended books and resources for anyone interested in archaeological illustration:
Archaeological Illustration by Lesley Adkins & Roy Adkins
Student’s Guide to Archaeological Illustrating by Brian Dillon
Approaches to Archaeological Illustration - A Handbook by Mélanie Steiner - particularly good as it covers the techniques used by illustrators in great detail.
There are various technical papers published by The Association of Archaeological Illustrators & Surveyors:
http://www.aais.org.uk/html/papers/papers.html
Archaeological Illustration (PDF)
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High ResolutionPair of gold, lapis lazuli, glass and pearl bracelets, Byzantine, circa 5th-7th Century A.D. | CHRISTIES
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Con Co Ngua excavation potentially the earliest cemetery site in Southeast Asia
More than 140 ancient burials including men, women, teenagers and children have been recovered from the site in the Thanh Hoa province in Northern Vietnam.
The burial site, known as Con Co Ngua, is believed to have existed sometime between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago. Rising sea levels helped preserve the site under a thick cap of marine clay.
“Archaeological cemeteries and living sites of such antiquity are all but unknown in the region, with only a handful of burials from a number of cave sites previously known,” Dr Oxenham said. [full article]
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High ResolutionHow snow helps archaeologists discover ancient sites. (via Snowy landscape reveals Wales’ forgotten ancient remains - Need to Read - News - WalesOnline)
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The skull of Homo erectus (as Pithecanthropus erectus) compared with modern human, modern ape and microcephalic skulls by Eugène Dubois, the discoverer of Homo erectus.
From: Näheres über den Pithecanthropus erectus als Menschenähnliche Uebergangsform by Eugène Dubois
See also: Pithecanthropus erectus : eine menschen aehnliche Uebergangsform aus Java
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Coins representing different historical periods in ancient Persia and Mesopotamia. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Photo by Babylon Chronicle
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High ResolutionFunerary gifts found in a royal tomb. A bronze situla (urn) held a sword, horse equipment and various tools.
Oss, the Netherlands, ca. 800-500 B.C.
Source: Leiden Museum of Antiquities
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Ancient Pyu City-State from Sri Ksetra Dynasty (RFA Burmese)
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ေရွးေဟာင္းသုေတသန ဌာနက တူးေဖာ္ သုေတသန ျပဳလုပ္ေနတဲ့ ပ်ဴၿမိဳ႕ေဟာင္းေတြ အမ်ားအျပား ရိွေနပါတယ္။ အဲဒီၿမိဳ႕ေဟာင္းေတြ အထဲက ပဲခူးတုိင္း ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕အနီးမွာရိွတဲ့ သေရေခတၱရာ ပ်ဴၿမိဳ႕ေဟာင္း အေၾကာင္း RFA ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ ရွင္ေဒဝီက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
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Greek Historian Got Mummy Evisceration Wrong
Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn’t remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.
The ancient embalmers also didn’t always leave the mummy’s heart in place, the researchers added.
The findings, published in the February issue of HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology, come from analyzing 150 mummies from the ancient world.
In the fifth century B.C., Herodotus, the “father of history,” got an inside peek at the Egyptian mummification process. Embalming was a competitive business, and the tricks of the trade were closely guarded secrets, said study co-author Andrew Wade, an anthropologist at the University of Western Ontario. Read more.
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