[] I was drawn to the outskirts of Cairo by the colossal complex in the desert — a towering site that arose over decades, built […]
Tag: Archaeology and Anthropology
How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide.
[] It may not have been the tax-evasion trial of the century — the second century, that is — but it was of such gravity […]
6,500-Year-Old Hunting Kit Found in West Texas
[] The 6,500-year-old hunting kit contained pieces of a spear thrower and a boomerang, as well as wood- and stone-tipped darts. It was found in […]
‘It Had Teeth’: A 3-Year-Old Discovers Ancient Treasure in Israel
[] A 3½-year-old in Israel recently made an important archaeological discovery. The child, Ziv Nitzan, was hiking with her family last month on a dirt […]
The Torlonia Marbles Offer Everything We Ask of Art
[] The two women are a coil of contradictions: Roman but also Greek, flesh but also stone. They both are confident, blessed with the poise […]
Tomb of Unknown Pharaoh Is Unearthed in Egypt
Archaeologists have unearthed the huge tomb of an unknown pharaoh at an Egyptian necropolis, a team of researchers said on Thursday, in the second discovery […]
Gananath Obeyesekere, 95, Dies; Anthropologist Bridged East and West
Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose long career and wide-ranging social insights — which drew on Hindu texts, Freudian psychoanalysis and Christian mysticism — made him […]