JERUSALEM.- For the first time in the history of the study of Akko, a public building from the Byzantine period has been exposed in the city. In an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority conducted c. 100 m west of Tel Akko – ne…
Mexico Finds Possible US Remains from 1846-48 War
By: Mark Stevenson, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP).- Archaeologists said Thursday they have found 10 sets of skeletal remains that may belong to U.S. soldiers who died during a battle in the 1846-48 Mexican-American war. The government experts said…
Coveted Art Directors Club Award Goes to Designs for Tell Halaf Exhibition
BERLIN.- The designs for the ‘Tell Halaf Adventure’, executed by the architects neo.studio, have been selected for an award by the Art Directors Club (ADC) in Germany, in the section ‘Communication in Space’. Some 7000 projects were submitted to the 20…
E. Gilliéron & Son’s Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred pop…
E. Gilliéron & Son’s Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum
NEW YORK, NY.- Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred pop…
Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century at the MFA in Houston
HOUSTON, TX.- At the end of the 18th century, fresh archeological finds in Herculaneum and Pompeii inspired artists, intellectuals, and the public all over Europe to be newly fascinated with antiquities. “Neoclassicism” is the term given to t…
Clearing Work Completed by Israel Antiquities Authority on a Second Temple Period Water Channel
JERUSALEM.- Clearing work has been completed on a Second Temple Period water channel in excavations being conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David located within the Jerusalem Walls National Park. The excavations are being run…
Clearing Work Completed by Israel Antiquities Authority on a Second Temple Period Water Channel
JERUSALEM.- Clearing work has been completed on a Second Temple Period water channel in excavations being conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the City of David located within the Jerusalem Walls National Park. The excavations are being run…
Skeletons and Architectural Vestiges Reveal an Occupation that Dates from 1,500 BC
MEXICO CITY.- Prehispanic ceramics, human skeletons and vestiges of dwelling and ceremonial areas are part of findings registered by archaeologists throughout a decade of explorations at Tepoztlan, Morelos; this discovering reveals that the site had an…
Biblical Archaeology Society Announces the Publication of "In Search of Herod’s Tomb"
WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Biblical Archaeology Society announces the publication of “In Search of Herod’s Tomb” by Ehud Netzer in the January/February 2011 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR). The first-century Jewish historian Joseph…