Neatorama Posts Tagged "archaeology"
Single Male Assyriologist Seeks Single Female Assyriologist...

Appropriate for Valentine's Day, the New York Times (paywalled) tells the love story of Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll, two Danish academics who share an interest in the history of the ancient Near Eastern...

https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Single-Male-Assyriologist-Seeks-Single-Female-Assyriologist/
This Fig Tree Grows Upside-Down...

This photo isn't flipped. You are looking at it correctly. This fig tree is actually upside-down and it grew that way!Atlas Obscura tells us that near the Italian coast town of Bacoli are ruins from the ancient Roman res...

https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/12/This-Fig-Tree-Grows-Upside-Down/
Archaeologists Decide It Would Be a Good Idea to Dig Up a Lead Sarcophagus Buried under Notre Dame for 700 Years...

World events have been rather boring for the past two years, so what's the worst that could happen?The Guardian reports that archaeologists working in the ruins of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris during its reconstruct...

https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/15/Archaeologists-Decide-It-Would-Be-a-Good-Idea-to-Dig-Up-a-Lead-Sarcophagus-Buried-under-Notre-Dame-for-700-Years/
They Opened the Granite Sarcophagus...

Last week we read about a black granite sarcophagus found underneath the city of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has announced that the sarcophagus has been opened. Sadly, the archaeologists found that w...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/20/They-Opened-the-Granite-Sarcophagus/
Mysterious Black Granite Sarcophagus Discovered in Alexandria...

It has never been easy to conduct archaeological digs in Alexandria, Egypt. The city founded by Alexander the Great has been continuously occupied, and now has a population of more than five million people. But in the 21...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/11/Mysterious-Black-Granite-Sarcophagus-Discovered-in-Alexandria/
Newly Unearthed Civil War Bones Speak Silently to the Grim Aftermath of Battle...

During both of the Battles of Bull Run in 1861 and '62, the Union Army suffered defeat and lost a lot of men. The battlefield near Manassas, Virginia, is now a memorial protected by the National Park Service. They do not...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/23/Newly-Unearthed-Civil-War-Bones-Speak-Silently-to-the-Grim-Aftermath-of-Battle/
How to Decorate Like a Viking...

Archaeological excavations of ancient sites usually don't come in color, as hundreds of years and exposure to air, water, and/or soil will fade the original colors. But archaeologists in Denmark have studied the material...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/20/How-to-Decorate-Like-a-Viking/
Pompeii: Between a Rock and a Hard Place...

Somehow, I was under the impression that the entire city of Pompeii had been excavated from under the ash, rock, and lava of the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Not so. A new project to extend the excavation has uncovere...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/30/Pompeii-Between-a-Rock-and-a-Hard-Place/
Six of the Oldest Human Remains Found in the U.S....

Archaeological discoveries of ancient humans keep pushing our knowledge about our species further back in time. The Americas haven't been populated by people as long as other parts of the world, but exactly how long they...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/06/Six-of-the-Oldest-Human-Remains-Found-in-the-US/
10,000-year-old Tracks Document Battle Between Humans and Giant Sloths...

At Alkali Flat, a site near White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, scientists are studying ancient footprints to reconstruct a hunting party of Pleistocene humans as they fought against giant ground sloths.“M...

https://www.neatorama.com/2018/04/26/10000-year-old-Tracks-Document-Battle-Between-Humans-and-Giant-Sloths/




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