The Nazca Lines have puzzled the world since Peruvian archeologist Toribio Mejia Xesspe discovered them in the 1920s. Now they are back in the news after Greenpeace activists added a [ … ]
Category: Artifact & Culture
Gold Bowl of Teppe Hasanlu, in north-west Iran.
In 1958 archeologist Robert Dyson and his team found this solid gold bowl while excavating an Iron Age citadel at Teppe Hasanlu, near the Solduz valley in north-west Iran. The [ … ]
A great site specialising in Ancient Beads
Here is an excellent site, specialising in ancient beads and which offers plenty of information about them, such as the process of making the beads, mining the stones and shaping [ … ]
World’s largest rock art petroglyph carving in Africa
World’s largest rock art petroglyph carving in Africa – In the heart of the Sahara lies the Tenere Desert. ‘One of the finest examples of ancient rock art in the [ … ]
Necklace from Tomb of Tutankhamun
Necklace from tomb of Tutankhamun includes a scarab beetle design using desert yellow/green glass found to be Libyan Desert Glass, or Silica Glass. (Not Chalcedony as Howard Carter had thought.) [ … ]
Archaeologists Uncover 25,000-year-old Pendant in Spain
A pendant some 25,000 years old has been found in the Irikaitz dig in northern Spain’s Basque region by archaeologists from the Sociedad Aranzadi. The piece, an oblong gray smooth [ … ]
The Tomb of Sabu and the Ancient Schist ‘Bowl’
The ancient Mastaba of Sabu (Tomb 3111, c. 3100-3000 BC) was excavated by Walter B. Emery on January, 10th of 1936 at the plateau edge of North Saqqara, approximately 1.7 [ … ]
Ancient Schist Bowls were Molded from Liquid Stone?
Robert Temple, in his book, ‘Egyptian Dawn’, refers to the schist bowls from the tombs of the first dynasty and explains his view that they were cast, not carved or [ … ]
Luxury Stone Age Objects Found in Israel
Archaeologists have found a collection of beads, flint and 7000-year-old ostrich drawings at Tzipori that shed new light on the life of the upper class in the stone age. The [ … ]