Pasquale Barile
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Asia
Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital
In “A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish,” published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates a recently discovered inscription of the Assyrian King Sargon II found at the ruins of the ancient city of Karkemish. The inscription, which dates to around 713 B.C., details Sargon’s conquest, occupation, and reorganization of Karkemish, including his rebuilding the…
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Fringe Archaeology
This MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world
Today, construction workers rely on cranes to lift the big slabs of concrete and other materials that go into many commercial building projects. But it hasn’t always been that way; for thousands of years, humans moved monumental stones by hand. A collaboration between Boston-based Matter Design and the building materials company Cemex Global attempts to return to those ancient methods–while introducing an entirely new…
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Featured News
Expansive New Kingdom tomb unveiled in Egypt’s Luxor
Archaeologists on Thursday unveiled an unusually large tomb on Luxor’s west bank dated to ancient Egypt’s 18th dynasty. The 3,500-year-old, 450-square-metre (540-square-yard) tomb contains 18 entrance gates and is believed to have belonged to a nobleman named Shedsu-Djehuty. The nobleman was the royal master of seals for ancient Egyptian kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, said Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of…
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Prehistory
Daily grind: The biography of a stone axe
Tom Breukel analysed some 250 stone axes from the Caribbean and reconstructed their biographies, thus increasing our knowledge of production and trade in the period around the arrival of Columbus. His Ph.D. defence is on 18 April. Breukel researched how the stone axes – a collective term in archaeology that also includes adzes and chisels – were produced, traded, and used in…
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Europe
Rare Roman coins coming home to Warwickshire – where they were buried for 2,000 years
Rare Roman coins unearthed in Warwickshire after being buried for nearly 2,000 years WILL return to the county. The hoard, made up of 440 silver denarii coins, was uncovered during an archaeological dig at a Roman site on Edge Hill in 2015. They were buried in a ceramic pot over 1900 years ago, under the floor of an old building.…
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Asia
Prehistorical cave reveals diverse diet of early Guangdong people
Early dwellers of today’s Guangdong Province used to feast on an eclectic menu of birds and clams, with venison being a favorite, archaeologists said, citing discoveries from a Stone Age cave. The southern Chinese province is known for its culinary arts and a wildly diverse diet, and the latest archaeological finding suggests its epicurean tradition could date back to the…
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Asia
China confirms oldest tomb with “squatting” owner
Chinese archaeologists have identified a tomb within which a young woman has been squatting for 13,500 years.
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Prehistory
‘Missing link’ in human history confirmed after long debate
Early humans were still swinging from trees two million years ago, scientists have said, after confirming a set of contentious fossils represents a "missing link" in humanity's family tree.
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Biblical Archaeology
The hunt for ancient Dead Sea Scrolls is back on
In the cliffs high above the Dead Sea archaeologists chip away with pick axes, hoping to repeat one of the most sensational discoveries of the last hundred years – the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Africa
Fragment of Black granite statue of King Amenhotep III discovered in Sohag parking lot
The Ministry of Antiquities announced the discovery of an artifact in a parking lot in Akhmim, Sohag governorate, during a drilling operation to develop the site. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that the archaeological committee, which was formed under the chairmanship of Gamal Abdel Nasser, confirmed that the piece found in the parking is an official historical…
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