Cognitive archaeology is a sub-discipline of archaeology which focuses on the ways that ancient societies thought and the symbolic structures that can be perceived in past material culture. Cognitive archaeologists often study the role that ideology and differing...
King Hezekiah ruled over Judea in Jerusalem 729-686 BC, including a co-regency of 14 years with his father Ahaz. During his reign the Assyrians under Sennacherib invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem. Hezekiah bought them off with silver and gold but in anticipation...
The Latest Archeology News Extracts From The World Of Research Via The Web The Codex Vaticanus is an ancient copy of the Old and New Testaments written in Greek. It is the first complete Bible written in codex, or book form. Codex was a format, developed in the second...
In the early nineteenth century, the Frenchman Jean-François Champollion embarked on deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, because he was fascinated by the origins of the world and thought he might gain access to texts that were far older than the Bible. In this he was...
The Rosetta StoneBackground, History, Deciphering, And Significance Of The Find Of all the finds that can be called “keys” to the ancient languages, the Rosetta Stone occupies a very high position. The story is very fascinating, and is sketched below at...
