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Early Egyptian Presence in Canaan

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A Synthesis of Cultures

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Oil in Hittite Texts

Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. Hittite literature urges: Give bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, clothes to the naked, and to the desiccated, give oil. Oil was one of the minimal essentials in ancient Anatolia, as in the rest of the Near East. Sleuthing the various Hittite words for oils, lard, grease, and fat, philologist Hoffner discovers the basi...

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Mummification in the Necropolis of Alexandria

Forensic anthropologists have recognized signs of mummification of the skeletal remains at the Gabbari necropolis in Alexandria, Egypt.--COLIN CLEMENT Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Bodies of the Bogs

Over the past centuries, remains of many hundreds of people have come to light during peat-cutting activities of northwestern Europe. Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Europe]...

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Cretan Minoan Finds

A newly discovered Minoan palace has yielded the oldest well-dated fresco fragment ever found in Crete.--SPENCER P.M. HARRINGTON AND YANNIS STAVRAKAKIS Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Greece and Rome]...

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Preserving Jewish Heritage

An architect's effort to document and restore Greek synagogues--ELIAS V. MESSINAS Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Greece and Rome]...

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Beetles in Stone

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The Oldest Datable Chambers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

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Arti-Facts

Desperately Seeking Faustus (Lamps). DIGMASTER. Flood Damage at Thebes. News from Tel 'Ein Zippori and Sepphoris. Plus reviews of Anatolia and the Balkans, and Anatolia: Land, Men, and Gods in Asia Minor. From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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