News and interest items related to archaeology
Daily Mail Click-baits with Pyramid Math
Floating around some of the archaeology and science groups is a new “discovery” of a pyramid “older than those of Egypt” found in Kazakhstan. And […]
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Were the Terracotta Warriors of China Inspired by the Greeks?
Could this (or something like it): Have inspired this?: Lukas Nickel, of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, believes that […]
5,000 year old tokens are game pieces?
The title of a news article at io9 is Archaeologists Unearth Pieces from a 5,000 Year-Old Board Game. A Turkish archaeologist, of Haluk Sa?lamtimur of […]
Walmart Endangers Cultural Site? Gets Building Permit Through Bribery?
From the I’m-shocked-to-find-bribery-and-deceit-in-Walmart’s-plans department. The New York Times is reporting through an expose a laundry list of wrongdoing on the behalf of Walmart that resulted in the […]
People. Fire. Climate.
“Humans and fire are interconnected all the way back to our beginnings,” said Thomas W. Swetnam, principal investigator on the grant and director of the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
Stolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in Stolen Artifacts?
This is part of an on-going series dealing with the theft, sale, and trade of artifacts and archaeological finds that are abruptly removed from their […]
Stolen and Looted: an interesting article
These damages aren’t done by people walking along and spotting arrowheads. These are people who are actively digging and looking for artifacts with an intent to remove cultural resources from lands shared by us all. These people are thieves…
Recent News In Mesoamerican Archaeology
The King Has Left The Building Apparently Maya elites and royalty weren’t the only ones building temples and pyramids. And the mystery of the blue […]
On the Lighter Side: Archaeology Today
Monty Python style! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9WLMCygTU] Flaming Star! The Story of One Man’s Search For Vengeance in the Raw and Violent World of International Archaeology
Aswan Tombs Video
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THWho43RLEI] Here’s an interesting video that I stumbled across in YouTube today. This YouTuber just posted it 1 day ago and its his first video. […]