16 Mar 2018 The Social Impact of the Bow and Arrow on Prehistoric America By Jason Jarrell Archaeology & Science, Politics & Social Structure 0 A new technology in weaponry, the introduction of the bow and arrow, might have led to the collapse of the prehistoric, American Hopewellian Culture somewhere between 450 to 500 AD. A socio-spiritual tripartite existed between the Scotio Hopewell... Read More
12 Mar 2018 Pharaohs and Flash Floods: Was Tutankhamun’s Tomb Saved by an Act of Nature? By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 The death of Pharaoh Akhenaten in Regnal Year 17 was a powerful body-blow to the promotion of his fledgling religion, Atenism. Evacuated from their original communal crypt at Amarna, the royal dead were ferried down river to be buried in the... Read More
21 Feb 2018 Enduring Mystery of the Screaming Mummy: Abominable Crime and a Disgraced Prince—Part II By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 The devious plot of the secondary wife, Queen Tiye, to murder King Ramesses III came-a-cropper. In no time the conspirators, who included palace staff and her own son, were apprehended, interrogated and sentenced. Many of them were granted the... Read More
19 Feb 2018 Enduring Mystery of the Screaming Mummy: Mortal Wounds and Divine Justice—Part I By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 The hideously contorted facial features of ‘Unknown Man E’ - also called the ‘Screaming Mummy’ - are unlike any we have witnessed in an ancient Egyptian mummy. It bears mute testimony to the gruesome end of an overambitious individual, who,... Read More
07 Feb 2018 The Golden Shrine of Queen Tiye: Reburial of a Rebel Ruler and His Mother - Part II By anand balaji Archaeology & Science 0 When he came to the throne, Pharaoh Tutankhamun set about transporting the royal remains of his immediate ancestors from Amarna to Thebes. The inhabitants of the Sun City had also begun to slowly make their way back to familiar ground on the new... Read More