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Curse of the Balsam Cookers

The mystery of a curse inscribed on the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue at Ein Gedi on the shores of the Dead Sea may have been resolved.--ABRAHAM RABINOVICH Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Pelusium: Gateway to Egypt

A massive waterway across Egypt's northern Sinai Desert, known as the Peace Canal, aims to bring fresh water from the Nile to the city of El Arish, 40 miles west of the Israeli border, making the region fertile. In 1991 archaeologists launched the North Sinai Salvage Project to survey the canal's path for sites, excavate sites that would be destroy...

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From Cyprus to Munich

A police sting leads to the recovery of Cypriot church treasures.--MARK ROSE Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Europe]...

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Jews and Christians in a Roman World

Roman rule led to sweeping social transformations throughout the eastern Mediterranean.--RICHARD A. HORSLEY AND SUSAN E. ALCOCK Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Greece and Rome]...

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Urkesh: First Hurrian Capital

From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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Hellenistic Palestine Between Large Forces

From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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Hittite Pottery and Potters

Robert C. Henrickson That's the way the cooking pot crumbles! How a vessel breaks provides evidence for how it was made. A technological analysis of pottery from recently renewed excavations at Late Bronze Age Gordion demonstrates strong connections to the Hittite ceramic tradition From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] ...

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Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb

The sealed tomb of Iufaa was recently opened by Czech archaeologists excavating at Abusir, yielding a wealth of information about burial practices and religious beliefs.--LYLA PINCH BROCK AND JAROMIR KREJCI Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Qumran Controversy

The presumption that the authors of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls were a small Jewish religious order known as the Essenes living in Qumran, Israel, was hotly debated at a conference on the scrolls held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem this past July.--HAIM WATZMAN Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Imaging Rathcroghan

Geophysical surveys at Rathcroghan, Ireland, have revealed the presence of archaeological features extending well beyond the 300-foot-diameter mound at the center of the site.--ANDREW L. SLAYMAN Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Europe]...

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