The Guardian recently ran a review of the British Museum’s exhibition ” I Am Ashurbanipal,” featuring images depicting how the Assyrian Empire maintained power for over three centuries – namely through ruthless violence against conquered peoples, captured leaders and political… Continue Reading
The scholarly journal Nature recently posted a paper on the world’s oldest-known animal cave art, painted at least 40,000 years ago in Borneo. The paper starts: Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years… Continue Reading
ArchaeologyNewsNetwork reported that unusually high water levels in Venice saw a historical basilica being flooded: “St Mark’s Basilica in Venice was damaged by Monday’s exceptionally high acqua alta in the lagoon city, the First Procurator of St Mark’s, Carlo Alberto… Continue Reading
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, also known as the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, is home to more than 120,000 pieces of ancient Egypt including the Funeral Stela of Ankh f n Khonsu. This particular was originally part of the collection… Continue Reading
The Washington Post recently ran a feature looking at the deep roots of sexism wherein one might note the degree to which academics’ accounts of stages of development of human civilization, especially as regarding gender roles, follows the Aeonic Theory… Continue Reading
Quartz.com has posted a story about the latest discoveries in the ruins of the Roman town of Pompeii which, famously, was quickly buried in ash and lava from the eruption of the volcano, Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. These include… Continue Reading
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting “Armenia,” September 22 2018 – January 15, 2019. The work covers nearly 15 centuries of art, much of it religious in content. The Met’s website states: “This is the first major exhibition… Continue Reading
LiveScience recently posted a news story about archaeologists analyzing found in an ancient Roman city of Capitolias, ocated in modern day, announcing that mosaics depicting everyday life in the town includes written inscriptions representing the utterances of the figures the… Continue Reading
LiveScience.com posted a news story about a “love spell” inscribed in Coptic on papyrus dating to Late Antiquity, currently in the collection of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. While researchers are still debating the purpose of the spell, all agree… Continue Reading
Inquisitr.com posted a fascinating piece detailing discoveries in a Transylvanian cave that could provide emphasis of local nymph worship in the area around around 1300 BCE. The article begins: “Deep in the darkest reaches of Cioclovina Cave in Transylvania, archaeologists… Continue Reading