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February 1, 2010
Tales From Ancient Egypt: The Birth of Stories
Loren Fisher’s Tales From Ancient Egypt: The Birth of Stories is now available. In this latest book, Loren provides fresh translations, notes, and introduces to The Story of Sinuhe: A Wander on the Earth The Enchanted Prince The...Read all of "Tales From Ancient Egypt: The Birth of Stories"
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January 27, 2010
Suppressing An Evil Thought About The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon
I’ve been having an evil thought about the Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon. It’s not the devil that causes me to have this evil thought but rather the (so far) unintelligible string of glyphs that make up the first four (three and...Read all of "Suppressing An Evil Thought About The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon"
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January 14, 2010
The Ivory Shell Fragment From Kuntillet 'Ajrud
In keeping with his regular benevolent service, Aydin Örstan of Snail's Tales has posted the latest issue of "The Archaeo+Malacology Group Newsletter." And as usual, the newsletter contains a couple of notes that are relevant to the archaeology of the...
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January 13, 2010
Rollston On The Qeiyafa Inscription
Christopher Rollston provides his well founded cautionary thoughts on the Qeiyafa Inscription at RollstonEpigraphy.com. His discussion is a good counter balance to much of the current sensationalism surrounding this ostracon. Well worth reading....Read all of "Rollston On The Qeiyafa Inscription"
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January 8, 2010
How Much Weight Can An Inscription Bear?
For the two of you who perhaps haven't seen it, yesterday Eurekalert published an article on Gershon Galil's (University of Haifa) interpretation of the Qeiyafa inscription. There are discussions of this article on the Biblical Studies, the ANE-2 and the...Read all of "How Much Weight Can An Inscription Bear?"
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January 6, 2010
An In-depth Study
Earlier today, I thought I had discovered something of great interest about a couple of figures on a cylinder seal that Kenyon uncovered in a Middle Bronze Age tomb at Jericho. Now I'm not so sure; more news may follow....Read all of "An In-depth Study"
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December 31, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #83 Is Up
The anthropology carnival Four Stone Hearth is up at The Primate Diaries. Eric Michael Johnson heats the hearth with a wide range of abnormally interesting posts, one more abnormal than the others. Take a look....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #83 Is Up"
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December 30, 2009
Imaging The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon
I've been looking at the most readable image of the Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon that I've seen. It is in a paper by Gregory Bearman and William A. Christens-Barry, "Spectral Imaging Of Ostraca," PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 6(7) (2009),...Read all of "Imaging The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon"
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December 23, 2009
Biblical Archaeology In Perspective
Kris Hirst of About.com:Archaeology offered her suggestions for the "Top Ten Archaeology News Stories of the Decade." And guess what? Only one, the looting of the Iraq National Museum, came close to the concerns of the focused student of the...Read all of "Biblical Archaeology In Perspective"
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November 21, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #80 Is Up
Four Stone Hearth #80 is up at Middle Savagery. Colleen Morgan's edition of this periodic anthropology carnival is abnormally interesting. Go take a look....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #80 Is Up"
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November 19, 2009
Statistically Orientated
Alun Salt is a blogger and scholar whose abnormally interesting work borders on many of my own abnormal interests. He has a new paper at PLoSOne, "Astronomical Orientation of Ancient Greek Temples." Alun studies the orientation of 41 Greek temples...Read all of "Statistically Orientated"
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November 10, 2009
The Lost Army Found?
Of one of Persian King Cambyses II's armies Herodotus wrote: As for those of the host who were sent to march ageist the Ammonians, they set froth and journeyed from Thebes with guides; and it is known that they came...Read all of "The Lost Army Found?"
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November 9, 2009
Minoan Style Fresco Found at Tel Kabri
As the University of Haifa news release says, this find is not the first Aegean-style painting found in Middle Bronze Age (2000 - 1550 BCE) remains at Tel Kabri. Archaeologists discovered Aegean like painted floor fragments some time ago. And...Read all of "Minoan Style Fresco Found at Tel Kabri"
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November 5, 2009
What's In An Egyptian Name?
The latest issue of the Journal of Near Eastern Studies is out. Of the four papers, only Steve Vinson's "The Names 'Naneferkaptah,' 'Ihweret,' and 'Tabubue' in the 'First Tale of Setne Khaemwas'" struck me as abnormally interesting. Other folks, with...Read all of "What's In An Egyptian Name?"
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October 31, 2009
Joe and Patty Seger
I have known about this sad and trying situation for a while. Now that it is public, I think it worth sharing here. Joe Seger is a learned man. Director of the Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University,...Read all of "Joe and Patty Seger"
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October 30, 2009
Babylonian Seal Found in Hyksos Egypt
Back in May, Manfred Bietak and Irene Forstner-Mueller of the University of Vienna announced the discovery of a broken Babylonian clay tablet from the Hyksos capital at Tell el-Dab'a in Egypt. Todd Bolen posted an English translation of the new...Read all of "Babylonian Seal Found in Hyksos Egypt"
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October 23, 2009
A Temple of Adda at Aleppo
Claude Mariottini directs us to an article in the November/December 2009 issue of Archaeology Magazine about the Late Bronze Age temple to Adda discovered by German and Syrian archeologists among the ruins of Ottoman palaces in Aleppo. As the Archaeology...Read all of "A Temple of Adda at Aleppo"
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Bringing Back Memories
Steve Wiggins of Sects and Violence in the Ancient World fame has a post on his teaching activities and his personal relationship with the Egyptian god Bes, not that they are directly related. Yes, even I think it is possible...Read all of "Bringing Back Memories"
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October 15, 2009
The Qeiyafa Inscription
Aren Maeir at the The Tell es-Safi/Gath Excavations Official (and Unofficial) Weblog has the latest on of the Qeiyafa inscription. He even has a transcription of the text (along with proper cautions). Is it really Hebrew as Hagai Misgav thinks...Read all of "The Qeiyafa Inscription"
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October 14, 2009
Spreading Civilization
The Egyptian State Information Service reports that archeologists, working at Alexandria, have discovered a statue that may or may not be a statue of Alexander the Great. That's somewhat interesting. But I found the following remark in the short article...Read all of "Spreading Civilization"
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October 8, 2009
Four Stone Hearth – 77th Is Up
Pete Cox has posted the most recent anthropology carnival at A Place Odyssey. One of the many things I like about Four Stone Hearth carnivals is that the host typically provides a short synopsis and commentary of each selected post....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth – 77th Is Up "
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October 7, 2009
AVA/VA, BCE/CE, BC/AD or BP
The other day, Robert Cargill wrote an opinion piece, "Why Christians Should Adopt the BCE/CE Dating System," for The Bible and Interpretation website. Several bloggers have reacted to the piece. Bob himself did a follow up post on his official...Read all of "AVA/VA, BCE/CE, BC/AD or BP"
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September 21, 2009
Another Undisturbed Royal Crypt From Qatna, Syria
Deutsche Welle tells us, The burial chamber was found in the Bronze Age city of Qatna, one of the most important kingdoms in ancient Syria. At its height, Qatna was home to some 20,000 and a major trading crossroads from...Read all of "Another Undisturbed Royal Crypt From Qatna, Syria"
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September 17, 2009
A Private Menagerie At Hierakonpolis?
National Geographic is reporting evidence for a 3500 year old private menagerie, a zoo, at Hierakonpolis, south of Cairo. Archeologists found the buried skeletal reminds on of a baboon, a cow and calf, cats, dogs, wild cats, a baby hippo...Read all of "A Private Menagerie At Hierakonpolis?"
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September 2, 2009
A Middle Bronze II Wall Found At Jerusalem
Israel Antiquities Authorityphoto by Vladimir Naiahin Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and his team uncovered a rather massive Middle Bronze Age II wall in the part of Jerusalem known as the City of David. Reich believes that...Read all of "A Middle Bronze II Wall Found At Jerusalem"
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August 27, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #74 Is Up
Four Stone Hearth #74 is up at Natures/Cultures: getting with the nature fetish. For this anthropology blog carnival, Adam Henne has brought together a larger than usual collection of abnormally interesting posts....Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #74 Is Up"
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August 10, 2009
More News from Tell Tayinat: Tablets This Time
Back in April of this year, I did a post on the excavations at Tel Tayinat and said the work there was worth following. Well now, the archaeologists have found tablets. Excavations led by a University of Toronto archaeologist at...Read all of "More News from Tell Tayinat: Tablets This Time"
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August 2, 2009
Postmortem On A Minor Blog Flurry
A few weeks ago, the ancient and biblio blogospheres were awash with wonder at a paper published in an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers journal of all places. I was not exempt from this wonder. The paper by Panagopoulos...Read all of "Postmortem On A Minor Blog Flurry"
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July 24, 2009
Massebot And All Those Gods and Goddesses
John Anderson at Hesed we 'emet has an abnormally interesting discussion of massebot and gods and other things too fierce to mention here. He asks many of the correct questions. It's too bad no one has definitive answers of the...Read all of "Massebot And All Those Gods and Goddesses"
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July 16, 2009
Four Stone Hearth #71 at Neuroanthropology
The "Australiana edition" of Four Stone Hearth is up at Neuroanthropology. Greg Downey has done a great job of bringing together the most recent anthropology posts of abnormal interest. These carnivals always direct me to places I have never been...Read all of "Four Stone Hearth #71 at Neuroanthropology"
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Titles Only From Here On
July 15, 2009
A Duck Rimmed Chalice from Tell es-Safi
July 14, 2009
Archaeomalacology
Psammetichus I's Fortress Unearthed in Egypt, Again
July 6, 2009
Epigraphy By The Numbers
July 5, 2009
It Looks Like I Joined the Wrong Club
June 29, 2009
A Short Brutal Life
June 27, 2009
4th Millennium Camel Cart From Turkmenistan
May 22, 2009
More on Rehydroxylation and Pottery Dating
May 21, 2009
Rehydroxylation, Pottery Dating And The Missing Paper
May 19, 2009
An Inscribed Jar Handle and a Seal
April 15, 2009
Something Worth Following: The Tayinat Excavations
April 11, 2009
What/Where Was Belit-nesheti's City?
April 6, 2009
Recent Discoveries Prove Noah Account
Update On Six Letters And A Word Divider
March 21, 2009
On the Role of the Head in an Argument
March 19, 2009
An Uncertainty I Can Believe In
March 17, 2009
Three Contentious Words
March 15, 2009
Plundering What Your Forefathers Built
March 10, 2009
On Having No Better Solution
March 5, 2009
Statutes of Amenhotep III Found
February 26, 2009
Serabit Al-Khadim Restoration Project
February 25, 2009
Lost and Found Kinglist Fragments
February 23, 2009
Seals and Abecedary from Umm Tuba
February 14, 2009
January 2009 Journal of Near Eastern Studies
January 25, 2009
An Amulet for Rakab-El
January 17, 2009
Snail Shells and Descent of Ištar
January 11, 2009
Ancient Near East Sites on Google Earth
January 1, 2009
Pseudo-Archaeological
December 11, 2008
Göbekli Tepe: Navel of the Earth Pot-bellied Hill
December 4, 2008
Charles Halton on Archaeology
December 3, 2008
Khirbet Qeiyafa, One More Time
December 2, 2008
New Study Confirms C14 Dating for the Eruption of Thera
November 30, 2008
The Kuttamuwa Stele: Another Preliminary Translation
November 29, 2008
Increasingly Improbable or Somewhat Less Probable?
November 24, 2008
The Kuttamuwa Stele (Again)
November 22, 2008
Four Stone Hearth Is Up
November 18, 2008
The Soul of Kuttamuwa
November 17, 2008
Gezer 2008 Season News Release
November 13, 2008
Iron Age Burial Jars from Tyre
November 10, 2008
Photo Captions and Excavation Photographers
November 9, 2008
More On The Göbekli Tepe Complex
November 8, 2008
Free lunch and lecture: Mapping A Shared Past
October 30, 2008
And Now This!
October 29, 2008
Now, Whose Fault is This?
October 28, 2008
On The Supposed Discover of King Solomon's Mines
October 18, 2008
What Was Wall 4026 at Gezer and Why Did They Build It? Part III
October 12, 2008
What Was Wall 4026 at Gezer and Why Did They Build It? Part II
October 4, 2008
What Was Wall 4026 at Gezer and Why Did They Build It?
September 30, 2008
I Need Help Finding A Crownwork
September 27, 2008
Back to the Threshing Floor
September 20, 2008
Another Bad Ancient Picture
September 18, 2008
Gezer VII To Be Published
September 17, 2008
At Least The View Was Great
September 16, 2008
Avraham Biran Dead at Nearly 99
September 14, 2008
A Rare Sight on Site
September 12, 2008
The Ultimate Teaser
September 9, 2008
The Old Camp Ground
September 8, 2008
A New Toy and Some Old Memories
September 7, 2008
NT Wrong on a Myth of Archaeology and The Bible.
September 3, 2008
Neolithic Trade
September 2, 2008
News Report of 2008 Excavations at Oymaağaç in Turkey
August 26, 2008
Latest City of David Car Park Excavation Report
August 24, 2008
Climate, Agriculture and the Fate of Nations
August 9, 2008
Middle Bronze Age Tel Kabri and the Aegean
August 5, 2008
4000-Year-Old Canaanite Warrior Found
August 4, 2008
The More Important of the Two
August 3, 2008
A Note on the Name Gedalyahu
July 31, 2008
The Seal of Gedalyahu ben Pashur
New Northwest Semitic Alphabetic Inscription from Zincirli in Turkey
July 26, 2008
New Data for the Iron Age Chronology Debate
July 20, 2008
East is East and West is West
July 13, 2008
An Eye On Οφθαλμοι
February 24, 2008
BAR, Controversy and Quote Mining
February 13, 2008
Four Stone Hearth Is Up, Number 34 This Time
February 7, 2008
A Queen and A Goddess at Ebla