Walking Tours and Photo Essays
Sometimes pictures are better than words. These image-rich pages include walking tours of archaeological sites and museum collections, and photographic essays on issues in archaeology such as restoration of archaeological sites and explorations of meetings.
Spectacles and Spectators: A Photo Essay on the Maya Plaza
Recent investigations by Takeshi Inomata studying the role of plazas in Maya festivals led me to put together this photo essay of the plazas of some of the more famous Maya sites. Photos include those of Tulum, Tikal, Copan, Bonampak, Uxmal, and Calakmul.
Recent investigations by Takeshi Inomata studying the role of plazas in Maya festivals led me to put together this photo essay of the plazas of some of the more famous Maya sites. Photos include those of Tulum, Tikal, Copan, Bonampak, Uxmal, and Calakmul.
Dead Sea Scrolls: A Photo Essay
A photo essay of the Dead Sea Scrolls and artifacts from Qumran, with photos from the Israeli Antiquities Authority from an exhibit by the Pacific Science Museum and text by your guide to Archaeology at About.
A photo essay of the Dead Sea Scrolls and artifacts from Qumran, with photos from the Israeli Antiquities Authority from an exhibit by the Pacific Science Museum and text by your guide to Archaeology at About.
Dugouts and Dugout Dwellings
Dugouts and Dugout Dwellings: The Archaeology of Pioneer Housing
Dugouts and Dugout Dwellings: The Archaeology of Pioneer Housing
Giza Plateau Pyramids
Giza Plateau Pyramids; a photo essay of the four main buildings on the Giza Plateau: Khufu's Pyramid, Khafre's Pyramid, Menkares' Pyramid, and the Sphinx.
Giza Plateau Pyramids; a photo essay of the four main buildings on the Giza Plateau: Khufu's Pyramid, Khafre's Pyramid, Menkares' Pyramid, and the Sphinx.
Cascajal Block
High resolution images of the Cascajal Block, an important artifact with examples of possibly Olmec writing from the Early Formative period.
High resolution images of the Cascajal Block, an important artifact with examples of possibly Olmec writing from the Early Formative period.
Chichen Itza - A Walking Tour
A walking tour of one of the best known Maya civilization sites, and one with a split personality of both Puuc Maya and Toltec architecture. Photographs for the project were contributed by five different Flickr fellows, and they include all of the major buildings at Chichen Itza.
A walking tour of one of the best known Maya civilization sites, and one with a split personality of both Puuc Maya and Toltec architecture. Photographs for the project were contributed by five different Flickr fellows, and they include all of the major buildings at Chichen Itza.
Ban Non Wat Excavations: A Photo Gallery
Ban Non Wat is a cemetery in Thailand, used between about 2100 tp 400 BC, and excavated by Charles Higham beginning in 2002. This photo essay shows several of the interments dated to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age.
Ban Non Wat is a cemetery in Thailand, used between about 2100 tp 400 BC, and excavated by Charles Higham beginning in 2002. This photo essay shows several of the interments dated to the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age.
A Walking Tour of Hattusha
Hattusha, the capital city of the Hittite empire, was an ancient city when the Hittite king Anitta conquered it and made it his capital in the mid-18th century BC; the emperor Hattusili III expanded the city between 1265 and 1235 BC, before it was destroyed at the end of the Hittite era about 1200 BC.
Hattusha, the capital city of the Hittite empire, was an ancient city when the Hittite king Anitta conquered it and made it his capital in the mid-18th century BC; the emperor Hattusili III expanded the city between 1265 and 1235 BC, before it was destroyed at the end of the Hittite era about 1200 BC.
Benjamin Franklin's Mastodon Tooth
A tooth from the ancient extinct elephant known as a mastodon was recovered from beneath the floor of a building that at one time belonged to Benjamin Franklin. This artifact undoubtedly belonged to Franklin, and it represents Franklin's role in the scientific understanding of the process of evolution.
A tooth from the ancient extinct elephant known as a mastodon was recovered from beneath the floor of a building that at one time belonged to Benjamin Franklin. This artifact undoubtedly belonged to Franklin, and it represents Franklin's role in the scientific understanding of the process of evolution.
Walking Tour: Machu Picchu, Peru
The residential palace of the Inca king Pachacuti has drawn tourists from all over the world because of its lovely impossible location at the edge of the world. Gina Carey was at Machu Picchu during the Summer of 2004, and shares her photographs with us.
The residential palace of the Inca king Pachacuti has drawn tourists from all over the world because of its lovely impossible location at the edge of the world. Gina Carey was at Machu Picchu during the Summer of 2004, and shares her photographs with us.
Walking Tour: Olympia, Greece
Photographer Aschwin Prein provides a walking tour of the ancient Greek classical site of Olympia, the original location of the Olympic Games. Excavations at the site were the direct impetus for the reinstitution of the games, 1700 years after the games were banned.
Photographer Aschwin Prein provides a walking tour of the ancient Greek classical site of Olympia, the original location of the Olympic Games. Excavations at the site were the direct impetus for the reinstitution of the games, 1700 years after the games were banned.
Podcast Essay: Society for American Archaeology Meetings
An audio and visual tour of what the Society for American Archaeology meetings are like, with commentary and slides of attendees to the 2005 Salt Lake City meetings.
An audio and visual tour of what the Society for American Archaeology meetings are like, with commentary and slides of attendees to the 2005 Salt Lake City meetings.
Walking Tour: Qin's Terracotta Army
A walking tour of the terracotta army of the Qin Dynasty emperor of China who united China in 221 BC, Emperor Shihuangdi.
A walking tour of the terracotta army of the Qin Dynasty emperor of China who united China in 221 BC, Emperor Shihuangdi.
Photo Essay: Jewish Roman Mosaics from Tunisia
A selection of images from the Brooklyn Museum's planned exhibition of Roman mosaics from a Jewish synagogue in Tunisia in the latter days of the Roman empire.
A selection of images from the Brooklyn Museum's planned exhibition of Roman mosaics from a Jewish synagogue in Tunisia in the latter days of the Roman empire.
Photo Essay: Site Restoration at Gran Quivira
During the Summer of 2004, architectural conservator Marc LeFrançois oversaw the restoration of the building known as Kiva F at Gran Quivira, the ancient ruins of a pueblo city in central New Mexico.
During the Summer of 2004, architectural conservator Marc LeFrançois oversaw the restoration of the building known as Kiva F at Gran Quivira, the ancient ruins of a pueblo city in central New Mexico.