Face of a Medieval man found in Aberdeen reconstructed (BBC News 10/22/19)
The man – known as skeleton 125 – was one of 60 full skeletons and more than 4,000 human bone fragments found after work began at the Aberdeen Art Gallery redevelopment site.
Ancient ‘Stepped Street’ in Jerusalem Commissioned by Pontius Pilate, Archaeologists Say (Sci News 10/22/19)
For over a century, excavations in Jerusalem have been uncovering segments of the city’s Roman-period network of streets, particularly the so-called Stepped Street that wended its way from the southernmost gate of the city, alongside the Siloam Pool and towards the Temple Mount.
New Thoughts on Oslo’s Medieval Waterfront (Archaeology 10/22/19)
Life in Norway reports that massive timbers and stone foundations from Oslo’s medieval waterfront have been uncovered at the head of the Oslo fjord.
La Blanca, Mayan city exceptional for its palatial constructions
La Blanca Project, fifteen years of exploration in the Mayan cities of the Mopán Valley (Petén, Guatemala). La Blanca, an exceptional Mayan city due to its palatial constructions, has the widest vault ever documented in the entire Mayan area. Located near Petén, cradle of the Mayan civilization City abandoned in the famous “collapse” of classical…
Did Hannibal and his troops pass through the Pyrenees?
A very important site for understanding the processes of iberization and romanization of the Eastern Pyrenees Largest batch of ceramic material ever recovered in the Eastern Pyrenees Findings of jars, loom weights, animal skeletons, and Roman military elements Hannibal and his troops through the Pyrenees, a historical episode of first magnitude, today still very poorly…
Remains of 27 Iberian-Roman equids in Lleida
New studies have been started focusing on the diet of the 27 equids intentionally deposited in the Ibero-Roman silos of the Serrat dels Espinyers, next to the old Aeso Aeso, now Isona, was the most northwestern Roman city in Catalonia The presence of mules suggests the Roman military establishment as hybrid equids are more characteristic…
Tell el-Far’a, archaeological investigations in the biblical lands
Recent work has brought news on Assyrian domination in the region and about Iron Age in the eastern Levant In October 5 , the Tell el-Far’a project team will head to Palestine for the third excavation campaign Tell el-Far’a, archaeological research in Biblical lands Aerial view of the excavation area. Photo: José G. Gómez Tell…
Panoría, a key megalithic necropolis for the knowledge of the societies from the past
Palarq Foundation supports the project: Chronology and temporality of funerary practices of megalithic societies: the necropolis of Panoría (Darro, Granada) Megalithism as a form of identity expression Megalithic landscapes are sacred places where human societies for thousands of years found the perfect place for interaction and encounter with the powers of the supernatural The Iberian…
Looking for the soundscapes from the past
The Santa Teresa Canyon was declared a World Heritage Site in 1993 for its painted art Wall paintings can be up to 3 meters high Archaeoacoustics studies the acoustic properties of the landscape The project: “El paisaje sonoro y el arte rupestre del Cañón de Santa Teresa, Baja California Sur, México” was developed in 2018,…
The Secret History of Mummies: The Golden Mummy
“The Secret History of Mummies: The Golden Mummy” is a documentary co-produced by RTVE and Story Productions showing the most unknown and surprising history of the mummies of ancient Egypt. Collaboration between the National Archaeological Museum of Sapin and the QuirónSalut Hospital in Madrid During the study doctors found a secret hidden for more than…
Award Ceremony of the National Award for Archaeology and Palaeontology
It is endowed with €80,000 and is the first private initiative in this field Madrid, 26 November 2018 – The National Archaeological Museum of Spain has hosted the award ceremony for the first edition of the Palarq Foundation’s National Award for Archaeology and Paleontology to the project ‘Building Tartesos’, which sheds new light on the…
Building Tartesos is the winning project of the Palarq Foundation Award endowed with 80,000 euros
The research is carried out by the team led by Dr. Sebastián Celestino Pérez, archaeologist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Institute of Archaeology (CSIC-Junta de Extremadura) According to Antonio Gallardo Ballart, president of the Palarq Foundation: “The winning project illuminates the myth of Tartesos by translating it into reality and bringing…