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March 26, 2013 0 Comments

Operation Nightingale – Two worlds collide!

My association with Operation Nightingale goes back to the very beginning, to a sunny August day in 2011 ‘recky-ing’ our maiden site, the early Iron Age ‘East Chisenbury’ midden on the Salisbury Plain military training area in Wiltshire. Written by James Spry

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March 6, 2013 0 Comments

The governors of Ancient Egypt suffered from malnutrition and infectious diseases, dying before they were 30 years old

Researchers from the universities of Granada and Jaen take part in the excavation of the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis, in the Egyptian region of Aswan. After analyzing more than 200 mummies and skeletons found in tomb no. 33, they have come to the conclusion that not even the chief governors lived in such good conditions as was thought up to now

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January 4, 2013 0 Comments

The Archaeology News Network: Sculpture of Artemis unearthed in SW Turkey

Markus Milligan’s insight:A marble sculpture head of Artemis from the fourth century BC has been uncovered in the ancient city of Alabanda (also known as Antiochia of the Chrysaorians) as the archaeological excavations there come to a close. In some of the excavations made at the site, the doors of the ancient city were uncovered, the head of the excavation team, Aydın Adnan Menderes University Archaeology department academic Suat Ateşlier said. The walls from the Byzantine era were also found, he added.See it on Scoop.it, via HeritageDaily Archaeology News