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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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Looking Through Roman Glass

The peoples of the Roman Empire used more glass than any other ancient civilization.--DAVID WHITEHOUSE Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Greece and Rome]...

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Pots and People

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

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Tiglath Pileser to the Rescue:

Military Intervention Iron Age Style From Near Eastern Archaeology [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News] [Biblical]...

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A Hittite Seal from Megiddo

Itamar Singer A tiny seal unearthed by the excavators of Megiddo in the 1930s belonged to Anu-ziti. Its inscription states his profession: "charioteer." This title, borne by official diplomats of Hatti and vassal states, offers further witness to the importance of this station on the diplomatic route between the Hittite and the Egyptian royal court...

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Egyptian Statue Found

An unusual statue was found by chance this spring during construction in a Nile Delta town northeast of Cairo.--MARK ROSE Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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Stolen Stones

Looting of Iraqi archaeological sites has been a major problem since the Gulf War. Includes clickable map of the throne room suite--JOHN MALCOLM RUSSELL Archaeological Institute of America [Archaeology] [Discoveries] [News]...

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