• Exhibition on kris to be held in Kelantan

    Updated: 2012-02-10 00:50:58
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(6.125121, 102.23825199999999); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7250"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); The Malaysian state of Kelantan is planning to hold an exhibition in June featuring the [...]

  • 4 Days in February – WWII Battlefield Archaeology in Singapore

    Updated: 2012-02-09 13:32:08
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(1.2975325, 103.85423029999993); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7242"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); We don’t often think of the recent past as a source of archaeological knowledge, but [...]

  • Another sensational claim from Indonesia

    Updated: 2012-02-09 06:05:29
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-6.811812, 107.14541229999998); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7237"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); A presidential-sanctioned group named the Prehistoric Catastrophic Disaster Research Team is claiming that the megaliths [...]

  • Call for Applications: The Australian Historic Shipwreck Protection Project

    Updated: 2012-02-09 00:11:17
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-38.173206, 144.8731219); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7240"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); From the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, an opportunity for Southeast Asian Archaeologists to train in an underwater [...]

  • Malaya Historical Group searches jungles for WWII aircraft

    Updated: 2012-02-08 14:03:11
    Keeping up with the World War II theme, a feature about a group of Malaysians who spend their time searching the jungles for aircraft wrecks from the war. Malaya Historical Group, Channel NewsAsia 20120206 Malaysian jungle adventurers solve WWII mysteries AFP, via Channel NewsAsia, 06 February 2012 They trek for days through crocodile-infested [...]

  • WWII battlefield archaeology exhibition in Singapore

    Updated: 2012-02-08 00:50:35
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(1.2975325, 103.85423029999993); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7230"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); The National Library of Singapore will host an exhibition featuring the finds from a World [...]

  • The Burnt House in the Old City of Jerusalem

    Updated: 2012-02-08 00:50:18
    Avigad would be pleased! Yesterday we received Vols. IV and V of the final reports of the Jewish Quarter Excavations in the Old City of Jerusalem, Conducted by Nahman Avigad 1969-1982. The first four volumes were edited by Hillel Geva … Continue reading →

  • Prehistoric remains uncovered in Bohol

    Updated: 2012-02-07 13:34:11
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(9.5995837, 124.01397889999998); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7225"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); Prehistoric remains and earthenware have been discovered in a cave in Bohol province in Central [...]

  • Majapahit statues go missing in East Java

    Updated: 2012-02-07 06:19:50
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(-7.428087999999999, 111.01763400000004); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7219"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); Three fifteenth-century Majapahit statues go missing in Sragen, East Java. The story underlines the lack [...]

  • Vietnamese ceramics on display in Alabama

    Updated: 2012-02-06 14:22:19
    var latlng = new google.maps.LatLng(33.5220496, -86.80999020000002); var myOptions = { zoom: 5, center: latlng, mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.TERRAIN }; var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById("mygpMap7206"), myOptions); map.disableDoubleClickZoom = false; map.scrollwheel = true; var marker = new google.maps.Marker({ position: latlng, map: map }); The largest ever exhibition on Vietnamese ceramics is now on display at the Birmingham Museum [...]

  • 20th Anniversary of the death of Prof. Nahman Avigad and publication of the Jerusalem Cardo

    Updated: 2012-02-02 13:38:01
    Apologies for not having blogged a while, but I was busy with projects. For those of you who had sad thoughts about my absence, these are unfounded, as this picture shows: Received an invitation marking the 20th anniversary of the death … Continue reading →

  • More Student Perspectives on Archaeological Fieldwork

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:21:29
    Posted byKatie Sikes Our student archaeologists are quickly developing their professional field skills, and are becoming more familiar and more comfortable with our excavation methods. They can now accurately identify some of the most common artifac...

  • The Nitty-Gritty of Archaeology - Myth vs. Reality

    Updated: 2012-01-16 01:21:25
    Posted by Katie Sikes For the majority of this year’ weblog posts, we aim to give our readers an inside look at the experience of participating in an excavation by regularly including a variety of perspectives from students, many of whom...

  • Jesus and the Temple

    Updated: 2011-12-13 13:41:09
    As announced in a previous post, this coming Thursday the symposium on Jesus and the Temple will commence in Boca Raton. It will be my pleasant duty to give the opening lecture, entitled  ”Imagining the Temple Early Jews Knew”. Here are … Continue reading →

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