Atlas Obscura recently posted news that Chicago’s Newberry Library is looking for volunteers to help transcribe and translate a series of rare religious manuscripts written between the 15th and 19th centuries. In part the article reads: “The manuscripts, titled The Book… Continue Reading
A Late Mycenaean chamber tomb with grave goods dating to the 13th-12th centuries BCE has been discovered in the centre of the main town on the island of Salamina, Greece, during a project meant to link a home with the… Continue Reading
Live Science reports that hundreds of texts, some dating back to the Mediaeval era have been recovered from an ancient Christian monastery in Iraq where they had remained hidden behind a false wall and escaped detection by Daesh who occupied the… Continue Reading
In 1836 some boys out rabbit hunting found nine tiny coffins that were around 3 to 4 inches long in a small cave. Four of the coffins were stacked on top of four more with one stacked on top. Inside… Continue Reading
The garden of a large ancient house in Pompeii was home to stunning paintings depicting the Nile river flowing among green lush landscapes. These artworks could shed light on the way the Romans viewed the ancient Egyptian culture, and how… Continue Reading
A funerary garden dating back nearly 4,000 years has been unearthed in Luxor, on the west bank of the Nile river. It would have been part of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes would have stood, and may shed light… Continue Reading
Egypt’s administrative prosecution body has referred 12 former antiquities ministry employees to trial for allegedly allowing members of a German archaeological expedition to steal samples from the Giza Pyramids in 2013. According to a statement from the prosecution body, the… Continue Reading
Anyone who’s spent even a little time involved in the Pagan traditions of Ireland has come across accounts of the Sheela-na-gig, stylized depictions of women holding exaggerated labial lips apart. Recent theories suggest that this figure could represent the wife… Continue Reading
I love this story, regarding the restoration and archaeological survey of the side of the Edicule, the structure built within the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to house the site of the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth (and… Continue Reading
The UK’s Daily Mail reports on a massive statue of a pharoah, likely Ramses II (“Ra” = Solar deity, “Mses” = “son of”) discovered at the site of the ancient city of Heliopolis, this area now being a suburb of… Continue Reading