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3 days ago · Any errors that remain are, of course, my own. Unless otherwise indicated, translations of all inscriptions and of Latin literary texts are mine; translations of Greek literary texts are from the Loeb Classical Library series, Harvard University Press. Standard reference works follow American Journal of Archaeology abbreviations.
3 days ago · London CNN —. Microplastics have been found in historic soil samples for the first time, according to a new study, potentially upending the way archaeological remains are preserved. Researchers ...
4 days ago · That is why archaeologists must speak up about Gaza. Once Gaza’s heritage, libraries, and universities are gone, it can be said they were never there. With the “matter of facts” wiped from ...
4 days ago · March 25, 2024. Indonesia's Lake Toba, formed by a volcanic eruption around 74,000 years ago. In the new study, researchers uncovered fragments of glass from the eruption at an archaeological site...
3 days ago · Even scavenging an elephant that died of other causes is labor-intensive. Following years of investigating sites in northern Israel where ancient hominins obtained flint and ate elephants over 1.5 million years, Finkel, Barkai and others from TAU in collaboration with Gonen Sharon (Tel Hai college) and Yoav Ben-Dor (Israel Geological Survey ...
3 days ago · Some apologists, and church leaders (including Joseph Smith) believe that the Maya ruins on the Yucatán Peninsula belonged to Book of Mormon peoples LDS efforts to relate anachronistic Mayan ruins to Book of Mormon cities, owes much of its origins to an infatuation with archaeologists Stephens' and Catherwood's discoveries of Mesoamerican ...
4 days ago · The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe.