Mareshah is where our Diggings group has been excavating for the last five years, and it has had a colourful history. It was one of the most important cities in Israel during the Old Testament period, and during the Roman period it held such an important position that...
“Melina Mercouri, thou shoulds’t have lived to see this hour” or words to that effect, for the fiery Greek Minister for Culture, who was unrelenting in her demand that the Elgin Marbles be returned to their homeland, would have regarded the latest...
Archeology is the science that studies the past with the help of tangible materials from past civilizations that can be discovered today. Though the systematized form of this science is less than 200 years old, it was long in making through activities that were not...
Free Online Archeology Course 4, Lesson 1Archaeological Theory Archaeological theory covers the debates over the practice of archaeology and the interpretation of archaeological results. There is no single theory of archaeology, and even definitions are disputed....
Dr. Johnson C. Philip An artifact, an inscription, or a mummy can be placed in historical context and interpreted only if one can speak with some certainty about what period it belongs to. The closer an object is to an event, the better one can interpret the event or...
