Archive for April, 2008

The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology originated as a teaching resource for the Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London (UCL), created by the bequest of the Victorian enthusiast Amelia Edwards (1831-1892). Her bequest included several hundred artefacts, and...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The purpose of the PEF was (and is) to promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant. The PEF now has a history rich in association with...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR) in Jerusalem is the oldest American research center for ancient Near Eastern studies in the Middle East. Founded in 1900 as the American School of Oriental Research (ASOR), it was renamed in 1970 after its most...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web As early as 1900 BC, the Hittites controlled a large kingdom in Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). They ruled from the city of Hattusas, near modern-day Boghazkoy. Between 1800 and 1680 BC, the Hittite kingdom expanded its lands greatly. By 1595 BC, it was...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The Hittites were an ancient people in Anatolia who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusha (Hittite URU?attu?a) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire was at its height,...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna) is the name given to an extensive Egyptian archaeological site that represents the remains of the capital city newly-established and built by the Pharaoh Akhenaten of the late Eighteenth Dynasty (c. The name for the city employed...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The Western Wall in the midst of the Old City in Jerusalem is the section of the Western supporting wall of the Temple Mount which has remained intact since the destruction of the Second Jerusalem Temple (70 C.E.). It became the most...
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The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web Trajan’s Column is a monument in Rome raised in honour of the Roman emperor Trajan and constructed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus at the order of the Roman Senate. It is located in Trajan’s Forum, built near the Quirinal Hill, north...
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Biblical Archeology Course 6, Lesson 1 Dead Sea scrolls The Dead Sea scrolls consist of roughly 1000 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible, discovered between 1947 and 1979 in eleven caves in and around the Wadi Qumran (near the ruins of the ancient settlement of Khirbet Qumran, on the northwest...
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Study Bible, Theology, Ministry Masters and Doctoral Diplomas in Trinity School of Apologetics and Theology — A Bible School and Seminary With a Difference! Biblical Archeology Course 6, Lesson 4 Oxyrhynchus papyri 1 Oxyrhynchus is a city in Upper Egypt, located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo, in the governorate of...
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