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  • This site deals with Archaeology
    and Archaeological finds.

  • Archaeology is described as the scientific study of material remains; such as fossil relics, artifacts and monuments of past human life and activities.

  • Tuesday, November 7,2000
    POMPEII, Italy-Frescoes nearly 2,000 years old, have been unearthed near Pompeii in the remains of what experts say may have been an ancient luxury hotel.
    The frescoes were painted shortly before the A.D. 79 eruption of the long-dormant Mount Vesuvius volcano that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in heavy volcanic ash. The paintings adorn walls of a building believed to have been a hotel.
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  • Tuesday, November 7,2000
    POMPEIIFrescoes, nearly 2,000 years old, have been unearthed near Pompeii, in the remains in what experts say may have been an ancient luxury hotel.
      The frescoes were painted shortly before the A.D. 79 long-dormant Mount Vesuvius volcano eruption that buried Pompeii, the ancient city's art superintendent, Pier Giovanni Guzzo, said on Monday. The paintings adorn walls of a building, believed to have been a hotel.
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  • Thursday, JUNE 8, 2000
    AIN SOKHNA ROAD, EGYPTArchaeologists are not exaggerating when they say ancient treasures abound in the sands of Egypt. So many, in fact, that even a pilot from Iowa on a desert outing can make a notable discovery. Cave drawings were found, dating back thousands of years before the birth of Christ.
    George Cunningham was in the desert, 25 miles southeast of Cairo looking for fossilized sea urchins, shells and plants; when he spotted "an interesting-looking wall" last month.
    On Wednesday, Mr. Cunningham lead Egyptian scholars to the site to investigate the find; a sort of cave in a limestone hill.
    The cave drawings appear to be from three eras, according to Egyptian experts. The earliest which could date back to 7000 to 6500 B.C., are hunting scenes of men and women carrying bows alongside what appear to be dogs or wolves.
    A later drawing appears to be religious--two gods or godesses in an arch alongside three shapely women--probably godesses as well. It could date to the early Pharaonic dynastic period; around 3000 to 2500 B.C., the experts expressed.
    From yet another era, comes writing that includes hieroglyphic elements, like a primitive version of an eye of Horus.Experts speculate that it could represent a transition between languages, either before or after hieroglyphics.
    After Mr. Cunningham had shared photos of his find with several of his friends, including a diplomat at the U.S.Embassy in Cairo, who sent them to Gaballah Ali Gaballah, the director of the Supreme Council of Antiquities---15 archaeologists on Wednesday, visited the cave, pointing out the different symbols, with excitement and speculation
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  • Sunday, June 4,2000
    LIMA, Peru-An American, credited with discovering several major Indian ruins in Peru's rain forest, has pulled back the jungle curtain to reveal another ancient city lost in time.
    Gene Savoy, having just returned from an 18-day expedition into the high cloud forest in northern Peru, said that he thinks it is Cajamarquilla, one of the fabulous lost cities of the Chachapoyas people.
    Savoy described the Chachapoyas as tall, fierce, fair-skinned warriors, who were defeated in the late 15th century by Inca ruler Tupac Yupanqui, shortly before the Spanish conquest of Peru.
    The Incas so respected their fighting prowess, that they made the Chachapoyas their bodyguards, said Savoy.
    The site, measuring 25 square miles, includes stone roads weaving through a network of massive terraced cliffs, and at least 36 burial towers, said archaeologist Alberto Bueno. Both Bueno and Carnejo, of the 47-member expedition, were assigned by the Peruvian government to accompany Savoy.
    Bueno said,"there are many more structures, at least 60 to 70, but they were obscured by vegetation." The deeply set terraces, roads and ornate stone structures; many with protruding carved faces, indicate a large concentration of people who lived, farmed and worshiped there, said Bueno.At 73 years of age, the robust explorer, Savoy, lives most of the year in Reno, Nevada, where he directs the Andean Explorers Foundation, has written three books about his expeditions.
    Savoy has discovered dozens of Peruvian ruins since the early 1960s. The three most important were Vilcabamba, the last refuge of the Incas; Gran Pajaten--a citadel city a jungle-shrouded peak and Gran Vilaya--a complex of more than 20,000 stone buildings in a damp, fog-bound region of the Andes that Peruvians call "jungle's eyebrow."
    Savoy says Vilaya, situated on a ridge 6,000 feet above Maranon River, was the capital of the Chachapoyas empire; one of seven legendary cities strung across the heights of the high jungle of northern Peru.
    Last September, Savoy reported that he had found evidence of another of the lost cities; Conturmarca, in a valley along the Tepna River.
    On May 10th, he returned to the jungle; 340 miles north of Lima, accompanied by the archaeologists, a representative from the National Cultural Institute, and an armed detail from the national police.
    Savoy mentioned the reason for the entourage, required by law, under new government regulations, was enacted after a grave robber sacked several of the burial towers he had publicly identified ofter last year's expedition.
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  • Friday, April 21,2000
    WASHINGTON-  The remains of a 66-million-year-old dinosaur suggest that the extinct creatures were warmblooded; not coldblooded as once believed; and capable of the swift and sustained motion typical of modern birds and mammals.
     A modern x-ray of a dinosaur fossil, named Willo, found clear evidence that the animal had four heart chambers that sent blood directly to and from the lungs; and then pumped the oxygen-rich blood through a single arched aorta, similar to how the human heart works.
     "The single aorta completely separates the oxygen-rich blood from the oxygen-poor blood, and sends it to all parts of the body," said Dale A. Russel, senior research curator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and a paleantologist at North Carolina State University.
      Some dinosaur experts said discovery of the fossilized heart will change basic views about the dinosaur, and send researchers rushing to do more x-ray stidies of intact-specimens.
      Jack Horner, a famed dinosaur researcher at Montana State University in Bozeman, said, finding the heart in the fossilized remains, strongly suggests that all dinosaurs were warmblooded.
      If verified by further studies, that a rock-hard mass in the fossilized chest is a heart, it will mark the first time that scientists have been able to study the cardiac system of dinosaurs.
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  • Saturday, December 25,1999
    Turkey-  Chemical analysis of dirty dishes and drinking cups found 42 years ago in a tomb in Turkey, has given archaeologists revealing clues to what ancients consider a feast fit for King Midas of the legendary golden touch. Everyone dined on barbecued lamb or goat in a spicy stew with lentils. They then washed it down with a potent mixed drink of grape wine, barley beer and mead. Judging by the size of two huge cauldrons; the reservoirs of drink; a good and drunk time was had by all.
      The occasion was a royal funeral 2,700 years ago at Gordion; capital of the powerful Phrygian Kingdom, where Midas ruled around 700 B.C. After eating and drinking, the mourners lowered the log coffin of their king into the tomb, along with wooden dining tables, and hundreds of bronze serving vessels, drinking cups and pottery jars. Either they were too drunk or due to custom, they did not wash the dishes. Archaeologists at the University of Pennsylvania, using advanced techniques of chemical analysis, have now made the most of the dregs and leftovers.  The chemical examination of congealed clumps of leftovers in pottery jars and other vessels, produced traces of fatty acids, cholesterol and triglycerides, identifying sheep or goat as the entree. Carbon remains suggested that the meat had been barbecued. Other compounds showed that legume seeds, prabably lentils, had been added to the stew; along with olive oil, honey and wine. For spice, the Phrygian chefs tossed in a dash of Mediterranean herbs; either anise or fennel. Scrapings from the bronz cauldrons and the drinking cups, revealed the presence of tartaric acid, calcium oxilate and beeswax; evedence of a wine-beer-mead punch, known to the Greeks as Kykeon. Because about 100 drinking cups were found in the tomb, and each of the three cauldrons had a 33-gallon capacity, each of the feasting mourners could have consumed a gallon of the mixture, said Dr Patrick E. McGovern.
  •   The Hittites, whose empire flourished before the eighth century B.C., in what is now southern Turkey and northern Syria, left cuneiform tablets describing food being offered to mourners at royal burials. In Homer's Iliad, the Trojans feasted and drank a mixed fermented beverage at the burial of Hector. Scholars can now almost smell and taste the banquets they once could only read about.
  •   Because the practice of mixing fermented drinks was common in the Greek world of the particular time, archaeologists say, finding the residues of a similar drink at the Gordion tomb is compelling new evidence that the Phrygians arrived in that region from Europe; probably northern Greece or Bulgaria. The site of Gordion is in what is now central Turkey, near Ankara.
      The tomb suggested to have been holding Midas was discovered in 1957 by a University of Pennsylvania team of archaeologists lead by Dr. Rodney S. Young.
  •   Within a mound more than 150 feet high, and 1000 feet wide, the archaeologists found the well preserved wooden tomb and log coffin containing the skeleton of a king, about 60 to 65 years old.
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  • Saturday, June 12, 1999
    -CAIRO, EGYPT- Archaeologists have discovered an early Greco- Roman burial ground in western Egypt, believed to contain at least 10,000 mummies; the largest find to date. Researchers in Egypt's Western Desert have so far unearthed 200 mummies, including some of the wealthy and powerful of 3,000 years ago, as was reported by Egypt's Middle East News Agency, on Friday, quoting Zahi Hawass, head of the 12-member discovery team. The burial ground within the city of Bawiti, 185 miles southwest of Cairo, has been renamed "Valley of the Mummies," the news agency reported.
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