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Harvey's excavations reveal painted temple with Hyksos battle scenes
Harvey's excavations reveal painted temple with Hyksos battle scenes. Charles Currelly uncovered the full extent of the complex, town, and cemetery; Steven P. Harvey later…
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis gaining scientific momentum with new publications
Younger Dryas impact hypothesis gaining scientific momentum with new publications. The Younger Dryas research team has published 4-6 papers in the past six months The speaker…
Evidence of deliberate ritual destruction across eight pits at Sanxingdui
Evidence of deliberate ritual destruction across eight pits at Sanxingdui. Nearly every sculpture was broken or burned before burial, ruling out an enemy raid Pit contents were…
Population relocated to Jinsha; Sanxingdui left no decipherable writing
Population relocated to Jinsha; Sanxingdui left no decipherable writing. Jinsha site discovered in 2001 during pipe construction in Chengdu, 40 km from Sanxingdui Archaeologists…
Sanxingdui: Bronze Age city with massive walls and elaborate ritual pits
Sanxingdui: Bronze Age city with massive walls and elaborate ritual pits. Site named Sanxingdui ("three star mounds") after three earthen mounds rising from the plain Located…
Sanxingdui's human-face art and innovative bronze casting diverged from Shang
Sanxingdui's human-face art and innovative bronze casting diverged from Shang. Unlike Shang bronzes decorated with taotie animal designs, Sanxingdui focused on human faces…
El-Qurn natural pyramid served as Thutmose I's royal pyramid above Valley of the Kings
El-Qurn natural pyramid served as Thutmose I's royal pyramid above Valley of the Kings. Abydos was a sacred land throughout dynastic history with a pre-dynastic settlement and…
2018 study identifies five natural pyramids in Egyptian funerary contexts
2018 study identifies five natural pyramids in Egyptian funerary contexts. Natural pyramids were used in funerary settings since the First Intermediate Period following the Old…
Devil's Causeway water gap carved by catastrophic Palouse River spillover
Devil's Causeway water gap carved by catastrophic Palouse River spillover. Devil's Causeway cuts through a high interfluve into the Snake River at ~784-1,321 ft elevation range…
Letchworth Gorge inner channel carved during waning megaflood stages
Letchworth Gorge inner channel carved during waning megaflood stages. Letchworth Gorge contains three waterfalls along the Genesee River, which flows north into Lake Ontario at…
Dry Falls megaflood cataract dwarfs Niagara in scale
Dry Falls megaflood cataract dwarfs Niagara in scale. Dry Falls is 2.5 times the height of Niagara Falls Dry Falls cataract complex spans approximately 5 miles across Niagara…
Rocky Mountain Trench flood breached Polson moraine dam at Flathead Lake
Rocky Mountain Trench flood breached Polson moraine dam at Flathead Lake. Drumlins are produced by highly pressurized subglacial water flows (per John Shaw) Rocky Mountain Trench…
Valley Heads Moraine marks edge of glacial system south of Finger Lakes
Valley Heads Moraine marks edge of glacial system south of Finger Lakes. Water gaps cut through ridges in the Valley and Ridge province, indicating water flowed over submerged…
Burlingame Gulch rhythmites record multiple surges from one megaflood
Burlingame Gulch rhythmites record multiple surges from one megaflood. Pasco Basin and Yakima Basin were back-flooded when discharge through Wallula Gap (~250-300 million cfs…
Apple Grove, WV exposure records 7.5 million cfs megaflood on Ohio River
Apple Grove, WV exposure records 7.5 million cfs megaflood on Ohio River. 15-17 m deep excavation at Apple Grove, West Virginia is 238 km downstream from the nearest mapped Lake…
Joseph Davidovitz's 1982 paper proposing cast pyramid stones
Joseph Davidovitz's 1982 paper proposing cast pyramid stones. Joseph Davidovitz proposed in the 1980s that pyramid stones could be cast in situ using limestone poured into wooden…
Natron: ancient Egypt's key ingredient for glass and stone manipulation
Natron: ancient Egypt's key ingredient for glass and stone manipulation. Natron is another name for sodium carbonate Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) is a chemical component of…
Easter Island deforestation possibly linked to moai stone casting
Easter Island deforestation possibly linked to moai stone casting. One ton of live wood yields 250g of plant-based natron after drying and burning 250g of plant-based natron…
Molten natron at 851°C dissolves granite into water glass binder
Molten natron at 851°C dissolves granite into water glass binder. Molten natron forms at 851°C and etches quartz in granite (which makes up 50%+ of granite) The residue is called…
Temple of Medamud: obscure buried temple of war god Montu near Luxor under excavation
Temple of Medamud: obscure buried temple of war god Montu near Luxor under excavation. Temple of Medamud (Al Madamud) is located approximately 9 kilometers outside Luxor, Egypt…
Medamud features monolithic columns, key clamps, and plastered hieroglyphs
Medamud features monolithic columns, key clamps, and plastered hieroglyphs. Large walls display visible key clamps (keystones) characteristic of ancient Egyptian construction Some…
Coffin texts describe pharaoh's shamanic soul journey in life
Coffin texts describe pharaoh's shamanic soul journey in life. Coffin texts in Egyptian pyramids describe the journey of the pharaoh's soul Researcher Jeremy Naydler interprets…
The Ramesseum colossus: engineering challenge of 1,100-ton granite statue transport
The Ramesseum colossus: engineering challenge of 1,100-ton granite statue transport. The Ramesseum colossus of Ramesses II was quarried near Aswan, approximately 270 km (170…
Colossi of Memnon: 720-ton quartzite statues transported 675 km from Cairo quarries
Colossi of Memnon: 720-ton quartzite statues transported 675 km from Cairo quarries. The two seated Colossi of Memnon stand about 60 ft (nearly 70 ft with pedestal) on the west…
Sculpted monuments at Xochicalco reveal synthesis of Teotihuacan, Maya, and Zapotec traditions
Sculpted monuments at Xochicalco reveal synthesis of Teotihuacan, Maya, and Zapotec traditions. Stone monuments show synthesis of artistic traditions from Teotihuacan, Maya, and…
Xochicalco's astronomical observatory tracks 260-day sacred calendar via modified cave
Xochicalco's astronomical observatory tracks 260-day sacred calendar via modified cave. Observatory is an artificially modified cave complex originally used for quarrying…
Sarcophagi of Carajía: Qijia culture village sealed in earthquake mud, linked to Xia dynasty flood debate
Sarcophagi of Carajía: Qijia culture village sealed in earthquake mud, linked to Xia dynasty flood debate. Sarcophagi of Carajía was a prehistoric village belonging to the Qijia…
Doggerland: Lost land bridge hit by Storegga tsunami ~8,150 years ago
Doggerland: Lost land bridge hit by Storegga tsunami ~8,150 years ago. During the last glacial maximum about 20,000 years ago, global sea levels stood 120-135 m lower than today…
Helike: Greek city lost for 2,000 years found inland after translation error of 'poros'
Helike: Greek city lost for 2,000 years found inland after translation error of 'poros'. Helike was the foremost city in Achaea, named by Homer in the Iliad and listed by…
Waldgirmes: Roman civilian city east of the Rhine abandoned after Teutoburg
Waldgirmes: Roman civilian city east of the Rhine abandoned after Teutoburg. A Roman civilian settlement was founded around 4 BC near the modern village of Waldgirmes, about 100…
Nero's attempted Ancient Corinth: archaeology of an unfinished dig
Nero's attempted Ancient Corinth: archaeology of an unfinished dig. Julius Caesar and Caligula reportedly considered cutting a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth, which is 6 km…
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site art and trade networks in the Mississippian world
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site art and trade networks in the Mississippian world. Braden style pounded copper and ceramic pieces identified as trade objects from Cahokia…
Timeline of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site from Woodland village to Mississippian peak
Timeline of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site from Woodland village to Mississippian peak. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site was a Woodland period village as early as 200 BCE…
Spanish encounters and decline of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Spanish encounters and decline of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. When Hernando de Soto arrived in 1540, the region was divided into competing kingdoms De Soto exploited…
4,600-year-old board game discovered at Iran's Burnt City
4,600-year-old board game discovered at Iran's Burnt City. Board game dating to approximately 4,600 years ago found at Shahr-e Sukhteh in southeastern Iran Found during 21st…
Millstones on Siberian Scythian mound reveal grain ritual tradition
Millstones on Siberian Scythian mound reveal grain ritual tradition. Discovery announced September 7 by researchers from the Center for Rescue Archaeology at the Institute for the…
Mysterious Iron Age stone structure with female burial found in Dornoch
Mysterious Iron Age stone structure with female burial found in Dornoch. Discovery made by Highland Archaeology Service during preparatory work for a quarry expansion near Dornoch…
Fourth talayot discovered at Son Fornés site in Mallorca
Fourth talayot discovered at Son Fornés site in Mallorca. Discovery announced on September 6 at the Son Fornés archaeological site in Montuïri, Mallorca, one of the island's most…
Restudy of three Spanish caves shows varied Neolithic cannibalism episodes
Restudy of three Spanish caves shows varied Neolithic cannibalism episodes. Three caves in the Granada region of southern Spain (Carigüela, Malalmuerzo, and Majolicas) were…
5,000-year-old burial with 42-tooth necklace found near Wrocław, Poland
5,000-year-old burial with 42-tooth necklace found near Wrocław, Poland. Stone Age burial mound discovered almost by accident near Żorawina, south of Wrocław in southwestern…
Elohim compared to Norse Aesir as 'powerful ones' in ancient texts
Elohim compared to Norse Aesir as 'powerful ones' in ancient texts. Hebrew word 'Elohim' has root meaning 'powerful ones' Norse word 'regin' also means 'ruling ones' or 'powerful…
Callanish main stone circle: 13 stones, central monolith, and Celtic cross avenues dated to 3000-2500 BC
Callanish main stone circle: 13 stones, central monolith, and Celtic cross avenues dated to 3000-2500 BC. Callanish features a central stone circle of 13 stones with a large…
Scuba diving expedition explores flooded tomb of King Nastasen at Nuri
Scuba diving expedition explores flooded tomb of King Nastasen at Nuri. Pearce Paul Creasman began an archaeological mission at Nuri in 2017 King Nastasen was the last known king…
Kingdom of Kush rises from Kerma to the 25th Dynasty Black Pharaohs
Kingdom of Kush rises from Kerma to the 25th Dynasty Black Pharaohs. More than 4,000 years ago, one of Africa's earliest urban civilizations flourished around the city of Kerma in…
Ferlini's 1830s treasure hunt destroyed Meroë pyramids
Ferlini's 1830s treasure hunt destroyed Meroë pyramids. Italian adventurer Giuseppe Ferlini arrived in Sudan in the 1830s and dismantled pyramids searching for gold He reportedly…
Radiocarbon study contracts Ohio Hopewell timeline from 700 to 250 years
Radiocarbon study contracts Ohio Hopewell timeline from 700 to 250 years. A 2023 paper in American Antiquity by Mark F. Seeman (Kent State) and Kevin C. Nolan (Ball State)…
Pyramid of Hellenikon is part of a network of about 10 small cyclopean buildings
Pyramid of Hellenikon is part of a network of about 10 small cyclopean buildings. The Pyramid of Hellenikon is located in the Messini region of the Peloponnese, Greece The…
Dating evidence suggests Hellinikon building dates to 2000-2800 BC
Dating evidence suggests Hellinikon building dates to 2000-2800 BC. The small cyclopean buildings are conventionally dated by experts to the 4th century BC Pausanias' written…
Nine terms classify Greek polygonal masonry styles
Nine terms classify Greek polygonal masonry styles. Polygonal is the broader term for walls built without mortar using odd-shaped stones Megalithic refers to walls made with large…
Delphi's Emancipation Wall may predate the 6th century BC Temple of Apollo
Delphi's Emancipation Wall may predate the 6th century BC Temple of Apollo. The Emancipation Wall is located in the sanctuary of Delphi, considered the navel of the world in…
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