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View this email in your browser Sign up  | Premium Discounts |  Contact   Why Did the Giant Egyptian Statue Sing at Dawn? Re-Discovering the Colossi of Memnon The Colossi of Memnon are a pair of giant statues made of stone that are located in the Theban Necropolis in Luxor, Upper Egypt. The statues were made during the 14th century BC, during the period in ancient Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. The best-known legend about the Colossi of Memnon is that of the ‘Vocal Memnon’, in which one of the statues was reputed to ‘sing’ every morning at dawn... Read More... An Ancient Australian Connection to India? When was the remote Australian continent first settled? Where did these ancient Australians come from? Was the island settled once, or on multiple occasions? Is there a genealogical connection between the Indigenous people of Australia and India? These are questions I’ve spent almost two decades cogitating, and some of them have been pondered now for almost 400 years by European scholars. Way back in 1623, while on route through the Torres Strait, the Dutch explorer... Read More... Two Roman Ships that Were Lost in WWII: What Destroyed the Floating Palaces of Emperor Caligula? This is one of the most tragic stories about remarkable ancient artifacts you will ever read. After reading this article, you may have dreams about impressive ancient Roman ships that survived many centuries, only to be destroyed during World War II. This is one of the most tragic stories about remarkable ancient artifacts you will ever read. After reading this article, you may have dreams about impressive ancient Roman ships that survived many centuries, only to be destroyed during World War II... Read More... A Versatile Plant: What Were the Many Uses of Cannabis in Ancient Egypt? Cannabis is widely considered to be one of the most widespread options when it comes to medicinal herbs. However, in ancient times the plant’s popularity was far greater, and its use much more common in different aspects of regular life. As things have turned out, modern laws have now prohibited a lot of the cultural and religious practices which had been a part of Egypt’s history and culture for thousands of years. It wasn’t easy to unearth the history and evidence to support these claims, but now that it has been done, let’s take a look at... Read More...   You Might Like

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Leonardo García Sanjuán Universidad de Sevilla, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Faculty Member "Anthropogenic impact and lead pollution throughout the Holocene in Southern Iberia." "Present day lead pollution is an environmental hazard of global proportions. A correct determination of natural lead levels is very important in order to evaluate anthropogenic lead contributions. In this paper, the anthropogenic signature of early metallurgy in Southern Iberia during the Holocene, more specifically during the Late Prehistory, was assessed by mean of a multiproxy approach: comparison of atmospheric lead pollution, fire regimes, deforestation, mass sediment transport, and archeological data. Although the onset of metallurgy in Southern Iberia is a matter of controversy,... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Wayne G Powell Brooklyn College of CUNY, Earth and Environmental Science, Faculty Member Copper isotopes as a means of determining regional metallurgical practices in European prehistory: A reply to Jansen (2018, J. Arch. Sci. 89) We present a detailed response to the critique by Mr. Jansen of the paper " Digging Deeper: Insights into Metallurgical Transitions in European Prehistory through Copper Isotopes ". When we consider Cu isotope ratios of European Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age artifacts in the context of their local geological settings , climates, and archaeological contexts, Mr. Jansen's hypothesis that 63 Cu enrichment results from the adoption of fahlore ores is untenable. In both Serbia and Central Europe, the earliest copper production is associated with 65 Cu-enriched ores and subsequently produced... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Quassim Cassam University of Warwick, Philosophy, Faculty Member THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF TERRORISM AND COUNTERTERRORISM DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Nino Del-Solar-Velarde Université Bordeaux-Montaigne, UFR Humanités, Faculty Member Arqueometría: Estudios analíticos de materiales arqueológicos Este libro constituye una primera recopilación de técnicas arqueométricas elementales, moleculares, de datación y de prospección, además de casos de estudio originales en los cuales la utilización de estos análisis contribuyó con resultados enriquecedores y significativos a la interpretación arqueológica de variadas dimensiones materiales y culturales de sociedades pasadas de América y de Europa. Este libro posee 30 capítulos y está estructurado en 3 partes: I) Técnicas, protocolos y aplicaciones; II) Materiales y casos de estudio; y finalmente, III) Técnicas de prospección en Arqueología. ... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Jeremy Wisnewski Hartwick College, Philosophy, Faculty Member Review Brian Treanor Emplotting Virtue A Narrative Approach to Enviornmental Virtue Ethics In Environmental Philosophy DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Jeremy Wisnewski Hartwick College, Philosophy, Faculty Member X-Men and Philosophy: Mutant Phenomenology.pdf A pop philosophy chapter that aims to explain phenomenology using the X-men. DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Avraham Grossman Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish History, Faculty Member Avraham Grossman, "The Tension between Torah and Hokhmah (Wisdom) in Rashi's Commentary on the Bible," in Meir M. Bar-Asher, et al., eds., Teshurah le-Amos: Collected Studies in Biblical Exegesis Presented to Amos Hakham (Alon Shevut: Tevunot Press, 2007), 20-45 DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Avraham Grossman Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Jewish History, Faculty Member Avraham Grossman, “Rashi's Rejection of Philosophy: Divine and Human Wisdoms Juxtaposed,” Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook 8 (2009): 95-118 DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Nikos Psarros Universität Leipzig, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty Member Serving as Aristotelian Virtue In this paper I try to reconstruct the Aristotelian notion of the "natural born slave" as a virtuous form of human cooperation in contrast to the idea that a slave is a mere object of exploitation. DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK Martin Uildriks Brown University, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Graduate Student Photogrammetry In this informal lecture, I discussed photogrammetry as used in archaeology from a hands-on and technical point of view. DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK