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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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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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