This past September, Guillaume Blondel, an archaeologist, led a team of students excavating a Gallic site near Dieppe, France. His group was not the first to dig at this location associated with Julius Caesar's conquest...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/12/06/Archaeologists-Find-Message-in-a-Bottle-Left-by-Archaeologists-200-Years-Ago/Appropriate for Valentine's Day, the New York Times (paywalled) tells the love story of Sophie Lund Rasmussen and Troels Pank Arboll, two Danish academics who share an interest in the history of the ancient Near Eastern...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/02/14/Single-Male-Assyriologist-Seeks-Single-Female-Assyriologist/This photo isn't flipped. You are looking at it correctly. This fig tree is actually upside-down and it grew that way!Atlas Obscura tells us that near the Italian coast town of Bacoli are ruins from the ancient Roman res...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/02/12/This-Fig-Tree-Grows-Upside-Down/World events have been rather boring for the past two years, so what's the worst that could happen?The Guardian reports that archaeologists working in the ruins of the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris during its reconstruct...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/15/Archaeologists-Decide-It-Would-Be-a-Good-Idea-to-Dig-Up-a-Lead-Sarcophagus-Buried-under-Notre-Dame-for-700-Years/Last week we read about a black granite sarcophagus found underneath the city of Alexandria. The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has announced that the sarcophagus has been opened. Sadly, the archaeologists found that w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/20/They-Opened-the-Granite-Sarcophagus/It has never been easy to conduct archaeological digs in Alexandria, Egypt. The city founded by Alexander the Great has been continuously occupied, and now has a population of more than five million people. But in the 21...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/07/11/Mysterious-Black-Granite-Sarcophagus-Discovered-in-Alexandria/During both of the Battles of Bull Run in 1861 and '62, the Union Army suffered defeat and lost a lot of men. The battlefield near Manassas, Virginia, is now a memorial protected by the National Park Service. They do not...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/23/Newly-Unearthed-Civil-War-Bones-Speak-Silently-to-the-Grim-Aftermath-of-Battle/Archaeological excavations of ancient sites usually don't come in color, as hundreds of years and exposure to air, water, and/or soil will fade the original colors. But archaeologists in Denmark have studied the material...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/06/20/How-to-Decorate-Like-a-Viking/Somehow, I was under the impression that the entire city of Pompeii had been excavated from under the ash, rock, and lava of the 79 AD eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Not so. A new project to extend the excavation has uncovere...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/30/Pompeii-Between-a-Rock-and-a-Hard-Place/Archaeological discoveries of ancient humans keep pushing our knowledge about our species further back in time. The Americas haven't been populated by people as long as other parts of the world, but exactly how long they...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/06/Six-of-the-Oldest-Human-Remains-Found-in-the-US/
