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August 2 - Reports of tests on 5,000-year-old burnt human bones of 25 people found at Stonehenge in England suggest that ten came from more than 160 km (100 mi) away in West Wales. [ 59 ] August 15 - 2018 British Isles heat wave : Historic England announces that the dry summer has revealed many new archaeological sites through cropmarks in ...
In July 2018, archaeologists led by Zeinab Hashish announced the discovery of a 2.000-year-old 30-ton black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria. It contained three damaged skeletons in red-brown sewage water. According to archaeologist Mostafa Waziri, the skeletons looked like a family burial with a middle-aged woman and two men. Researchers also ...
Tel Motza or Tel Moẓa [1] is an archaeological site in Motza, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement dating to around 1000 to 500 BCE and identified with the biblical Mozah mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
The term Solutrean comes from the type-site of "Cros du Charnier", dating to around 21,000 years ago and located at Solutré, in east-central France near Mâcon.The Rock of Solutré site was discovered in 1866 by the French geologist and paleontologist Henry Testot-Ferry.
Archaeology is the study of human activity in the past, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts (also known as eco-facts) and cultural landscapes (the archaeological record).
A deep-focus earthquake of magnitude 8.2 (the strongest recorded in 2018) strikes the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. No threat of tsunami is immediately detected. 19 August 2018 Lombok earthquake. A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Lombok, killing 14. (The Guardian) 2018 Pacific typhoon season
Divers uncovered several ancient Roman artifacts off the coast of Croatia. The discoveries were made during an expedition near Host — a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea — in September ...
William Gwinn Dever (born November 27, 1933, Louisville, Kentucky) [1] is an American archaeologist, Biblical scholar, historian, semiticist, and theologian.He is an active scholar of the Old Testament, and historian, specialized in the history of the Ancient Near East and the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah in biblical times.