My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: forgotten limestone carving of Hatshepsut turns up in storage in Wales, wacky anti-history and anti-archaeology show on the Travel Channel, a horse burial in Sudan reveals high value on horses among Kushites and Egyptians
My roundup of history and archaeology: Talking Troy: Fall of a City, interpreting Egyptian tomb paintings & excavations on the island of Keros Greece
Here’s my round up of archaeology and history that I enjoyed from around the web: Mining big data to study gender in fiction, trade networks and globalism in Bronze Age Anatolia and Assyria, Mesopotamian art styles in King Tut’s treasures, preserving cursed mummies in Egypt
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: a list of best book review blogs, newly discovered Egyptian tomb of a goldsmith, Kültepe’s 23,000 clay tablets of early Anatolian writing, 7,000 yr old ceramic storage silo model reveals economic power in Jordan Valley, and a new, pretty amazing Mycenaean rock cut chamber tomb with untouched remains and grave goods.
My weekly round up of archaeology and history: AIA lecture on Angor daily life, Uffington Horse is a Sun Horse from myth, Egyptian Pharaohs used magic & intimidation to crush their enemies, Mycenaeans tombs come to light at Nemea
My weekly roundup of posts about archaeology and history: digging up Norse kings or gods in Sweden, Roman barracks in the subway, a new tomb in Egypt, archaeology in Egypt and Nubia, the genetics of Mycenaeans and Minoans, the Chinese epic horse show to tell the Trojan War
My weekly roundup of posts (and doings): the Historical Novel Society conference, archaeology & video games for real, carved skulls at Göbekli Tepe Neolithic site in Turkey & Egypt’s last colonial stand at Jaffa in Canaan
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Cemetery at Amarna reveals child labor and abuse, DNA from mummies reveals changes over time in Egyptian connectedness to other peoples, cat fur for coats in Medieval period–yuck, Roman bath comes to light in Chichester and ASOR blog on Sumerian art’s influence on modern art
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: adventures at Phoenix Comicon, modern disaster for a Roman arch, mummification materials found in Middle Kingdom tomb, new Cairo Museum toting Tut’s treasures across the city, mass grave from Thirty Year’s War, Trojan period finds in Western Turkey, Getty Museum’s Palmyra online exhibit, Gamla dig in Israel
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: website of films set in ancient Egypt, a new pyramid found, a lecture on the historical basis of the Trojan War and another on Hellenistic temples in the Peloponnese.
