02 Feb 2024 Maritime Archaic Culture: The Red Paint People Of Newfoundland By jim willis Archaeology & Science 0 About 5,000 years ago, when the Phoenicians dominated the Mediterranean trade routes and were, perhaps, beginning to venture out into the Atlantic as far west as North America, and when a mysterious civilization was building house foundations in... Read More
26 Jan 2024 The World’s First Collectors, Museums And Libraries Of Antiquity By Robert Garland Archaeology & Science 0 People have collected objects, scripts, fossils, specimens, precious stones, artifacts and memorabilia since the dawn of mankind’s memory, for different reasons. Many possible motives come into play – people collect because of nostalgia for a... Read More
24 Jan 2024 The Golden Age of Ptolemaic Egypt (332-14 BC) By Caleb Strom Archaeology & Science 0 Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC and after his death, his empire was divided. In 305 BC Egypt fell to his general Ptolemy I Soter. The Ptolemaic Dynasty was a powerful Hellenistic state extending from southern Syria in the east, to... Read More
19 Jan 2024 Living Close To The Bone – A Day In The Life Of A Hunter-Gatherer By Robert Garland Archaeology & Science, Family & Relationships 0 At the beginning of Herodotus’ Histories, the Athenian lawgiver Solon, one of the seven sages of ancient Greece, points out to his interlocutor Croesus, King of Lydia, that if a person lives to be 70, they will experience 26,250 days – by his... Read More
10 Jan 2024 The Rise And Fall Of Seth, Egyptian God Of Volcanism By Nicholas Costa Archaeology & Science 0 Numerous papers have been written about the Egyptian god Seth in recent years, but his essential identity seems to have evaded modern commentators. Seth's role is pivotal in determining the historical sequence of catastrophic events in the eastern... Read More