Archaeology
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-24 | Author:The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age (Cambridge Companions to Literature & Classics)

Plate 9.5 Canaanite amphora found at Kommos, LM IIIA2. Height 76 cm. Courtesy of the author. One of the most important of the new trading ventures involved increased trade with ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-01-31 | Author:Layard, Austen Henry [Layard, Austen Henry]

(132) A corruption of Sunedik, the plural from of Sanduk, a box. The place is so called by the Arabs from the peculiar from of the rocks near the river. ...
( Category: Archaeology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Caroline Alexander [Alexander, Caroline]

CONVERSIONS As pagan Anglo-Saxons moved into Britain after the Romans, Celtic Christians retreated westward or were absorbed into the invaders’ Germanic culture. It was only with the advent of Christian ...
( Category: Renaissance May 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Morwood, Mike; van Oosterzee, Penny; & Penny van Oosterzee

Ngandong Skull XI. During 1931–33, a total of 11 such late Homo erectus skulls were excavated from the Ngandong Terrace on the Solo River in East Java. Despite obvious similarities ...
( Category: Biology May 15,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Michael D. Coe & Stephen D. Houston [Coe, Michael D.]

112 Plan of central Uxmal, by far the largest Puuc site. 113 The Nunnery Quadrangle at Uxmal, looking northeast. A causeway, or sakbih, 11.25 miles (18 km) long runs southeast ...
( Category: Archaeology May 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Austen Henry Layard

(132) A corruption of Sunedik, the plural from of Sanduk, a box. The place is so called by the Arabs from the peculiar from of the rocks near the river. ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations May 8,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Portillo

Orford Ness, Suffolk The night before catching the train to Suffolk I got out the maps to do some homework. The relevant Ordnance Survey Explorer map, ‘Woodbridge & Saxmundham’, wasn’t ...
( Category: Archaeology May 6,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-14 | Author:Graham Hancock [Hancock, Graham]

The strange case of the bison-bull (1) In David Trump’s authoritative Archaeological Guide to Malta, most recently updated and extended in March 2000, the visitor to the Hypogeum is urged ...
( Category: Oceanography May 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-25 | Author:Harrison, Paul;

Chapter 6 The Dog-Headed Men The archetypal Western image of an Egyptian god is that of a human form with an animal head, usually that of jackal or dog, like ...
( Category: Archaeology March 25,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-02 | Author:John Romer

All along the chapel’s lengthy walls and wrapped round many of the columns that are not engraved with text, there are the usual scenes of Memphite tomb chapels: Ankhtifi and ...
( Category: Archaeology March 25,2019 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-02-25 | Author:Mary Beard

‘LARGER THAN I REMEMBERED, & BETTER HELD TOGETHER’ When Virginia Woolf encountered the Parthenon again in 1932, more than 25 years after her first visit, she reflected in her diary ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums March 6,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steadman, Sharon R.; [Sharon R. Steadman]

The Sexual Division of Labor: Gendered Work Spaces Tracking the sexual division of labor spatially would seem to be one of the most straightforward of endeavors, since the vast majority ...
( Category: Small Homes & Cottages March 2,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jordan, Peter;

NOTES Note 1. Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Demography and Marriage Patterns: Iugan River Khanty and Neighboring Populations Demography The earliest Russian records of iasak fur-taxpayers (not the overall population) living on ...
( Category: Evolution February 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-06 | Author:Zecharia Sitchin

J Jacob (H Ya’akov = ‘Who follows by the heel’): The third Hebrew Patriarch, the son of Isaac, so named because he was born holding on to the heel of ...
( Category: Trivia & Fun Facts February 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-07 | Author:Timothy Darvill [Darvill, Timothy]

Back - New Search Magyars [CP]. Barbarian people, perhaps Finnish in origin, who migrated into southern Europe, and in the early 10th century ad occupied Hungary, from where their horsemen ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses February 14,2019 )