Archaeology
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Tacked on to the end of a semi (very semi)-related piece in Portugal News: Meanwhile, in related news, another archeological team has confirmed that remnants of artifacts unearthed in the furnaces of Morraçal da Ajuda, Peniche, are in fact the first examples of Lusitanian pottery and are believed to have been used for storing fish…
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Very interesting item from the Hexham Courant: A HEXHAM archaeologist has challenged perceived wisdom with startling claims that Hadrian’s Wall was originally built of wood. In a 65,000 word thesis published on his website, Geoff Carter says his hypothesis answers some age-old questions. Archaeologists have long wondered why the ditch that runs parallel is several…
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This one is making the rounds of the ‘eastern’ papers … here’s the ANI version via Daily India: A team of archaeologists has discovered the ancient port city of Bathonea, located in Istanbul’s Kucukcekmece basin in Turkey, which is estimated to be 1,600 years old. According to a report in Today’s Zaman, Dr. Sengul Aydingun…
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Interesting item from Ha’aretz … some excerpts: Remains of an ancient cult to the goddess of love have come to light in the southern Golan Heights site of Susita At the site, on a 350 meter-high-plateau overlooking the eastern shore of Lake Kinneret, archaeologists found a cache of three figurines of Aphrodite (whom the Romans…
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Another one I’ve been sitting on and a bit out of our period of purview, but I like this sort of thing (and I find it interesting that the pottery looks ‘Halstatt’ to me, but that’s very likely not even close) … At the beach at Nettuno, south of Rome, a ‘warrior burial’ has been…
