Archaeologists working in Saqqara recently rediscovered the tombs of senior officials, an offering chapel, limestone sarcophagus, and untouched mummy.
Archaeologists working at Apollonia on the Rhyndacus discovered an unusual tomb while excavating the theater.
“A necklace of at least 24 tiny charms, given to Roman children as a protective amulet, was among the finds from a wooden cupboard sealed for almost 2,000 years in Pompeii.”
“Much like the Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 C.E., Akrotiri was preserved beneath the ash…. This created a rare time capsule that provides an unprecedented look into the daily life of this Middle Bronze Age Cycladic civilization.”
A Jordanian-French project to “conserve, document, and showcase archaeological discoveries in the southeastern Jordan desert” has been completed.
Mark Wilson writes about his recent visit to Damascus.
Helen Dixon has written an archaeologist’s guide to the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.
Matthew Larsen discusses the archaeology and experience of Roman prisons on the Biblical World podcast.
“The Digital Editions of Aramaic and Phoenician Sources (DEAPS) has now made available editions of 329 Phoenician and Punic textual objects. The new material is the first substantial body of Phoenician sources freely and digitally available for researchers and the public.”
New release: Eclipses, Volcanoes, and Eponyms: New Perspectives on the Chronology of the Early Second Millennium BC in Mesopotamia, edited by Werner Nahm and Michael Roaf (Peeters, 125 euro; open access)
New release: Discovering the Moabites: Archaeology, History, and Culture, by P. M. Michèle Daviau, Margreet L. Steiner (SBL Press, $49; Amazon)
New release: Alexander: God, King, Man, by Edmund Richardson (St. Martin’s Press, $23)
Matt Glassman discusses the possible locations for Ur of the Chaldeans on the latest episode of Digging for Truth.
An aspiring archaeologist shared her experience on a three-week excavation near Pylos, Greece, with People magazine.
HT: Agade, Keith Keyser, Explorator