(AP Photo/Greek Culture Ministry, HO)This skeleton, exacavated recently in the town of Veria, some 75km west of Thessalonika, provides evidence that the ancient Greeks performed sophisticated neurosurgery. The remains, dated to the 3rd century A.D., belong to a woman...
Posted on March 12, 2008 6:51 PM • 3 Comments •
Zahi Hawass (centre), director of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, supervises the removal of Tutankhamun's mummy from his sarcophagus in the underground tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. (Image: Ben Curtis/ AP) The face...
Posted on November 4, 2007 3:47 PM • 1 Comments •
This wall painting was discovered by a team of French archaeologists working at Djade al-Mughara, a Neolithic site in Northern Syria. The red, black and white painting measures 2 square meters, and has been dated to around 9,000 BC...
Posted on October 11, 2007 12:37 PM • 4 Comments •
Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq is a 28-minute film from the Archaeology Channel which documents the plundering of Iraqi archaeological sites and looting and destruction of priceless artifacts.This destruction of Iraq's heritage has been going on since the...
Posted on September 5, 2007 8:20 AM • 0 Comments •
Most people recognize Tutankhamun as the boy-king of ancient Egypt. He is the most well-known pharaoh because his tomb was discovered apparently intact* and, more importantly, because it contained the magnificent gold mask that has become an icon of...
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Posted on July 12, 2007 7:05 PM • 9 Comments •
