Archaeology February 2013 Archive

The next stop on our Alexandria tour is the port city of Taposiris Magna, located 45 km west of Alexandria and on the narrow strip of land between the Mediterranean ... Read More

One of the original Seven Wonders of the World was the legendary Pharos Lighthouse, built on the island of Pharos in the city of Alexandria, Egypt, in the 3rd century ... Read More

Broxmouth is the name of the archaeological remnants of an Iron Age hillfort, located about 2,000 feet from the North Sea near Dunbar, Scotland. Icy beach on the North Sea ... Read More

Alexandria, Egypt, is an ancient city, built by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, as the capital for his empire in Egypt. While Alexander didn't live to see either the ... Read More

Ohalo II is an amazingly well-preserved and important late Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer community located on Lake Kinneret in the Rift Valley of Israel. Groundsel (Senecio glaucus), one of many flowers ... Read More

The second entry in our indepth study of metals is lead, a naturally occurring metal with some fairly toxic properties that nonetheless held some attraction to our ancestors. Too much ... Read More

A report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week provides new radiocarbon evidence pertaining to the Neanderthal refugium in the lower Iberian peninsula. Neanderthal Sites ... Read More

Poverty Point is an amazing place. Within the boundaries of a National and State Park in northeastern Louisiana is an elaborate earthwork constructed some 3500 years ago: elaborate and symmetrical, ... Read More

China's Terracotta Warriors is a 2011 DVD from the PBS/National Geographic series Secrets of the Dead, and it is packed with new information about these amazing 2,200 year old sculptures. ... Read More