ArchaeoQuest

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06/16/2024

Face Reconstruction of Queen Tiye (1398-1338 BC), based on her Mummy, found at the Tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) in 1898. Now preserved at (The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo).

06/16/2024

Gold amulet with carnelian phallus, Bosporan Kingdom, 3rd century BC
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06/16/2024

🔸The 3,200-year-old tomb of Queen Nefertari, also called the Sistine Chapel of Ancient Egypt. The paintings, which are found on almost every available surface in the tomb, are considered to be the best preserved and most eloquent decorations of any Egyptian burial site.

06/16/2024

Polish Hussar armor for Ottoman Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha, XVII century.
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06/16/2024

View of Kom-Ombo Temple

06/16/2024

Broad Collars
Dynasty 18
Reign of Thutmose III 1479-1425 BCE
gold carnelian glass from the tomb of the three minor wives of Thutmose III Thebes
Now in at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York.

06/16/2024

Assyrian statues in Louvre Museum

06/16/2024

A Look Inside the Colosseum’s Long-Hidden Gladiator Tunnels, Rome, Italy

06/15/2024

The Churchill Arms , London , UK
The Churchill Arms was built in 1750 ,making it one of the older and more historic pubs in London. In the 19th century, Winston Churchill"s Grandparents, the 7th Duke of Marlborough and Lady Frances Anne Emily Vane, were patrons of the pub , which eventually led to the naming of the pub after WW2. Previous name was known as "Church-on -the -Hill". The pub is known for its exuberant floral displays and wonderful Christmas displays in winter

06/15/2024

Indigenous tracking experts from the Ju/"hoansi group of the San people have worked with archaeologists in western Namibia to analyze recently discovered rock art dating to the 1st millennium B.C. Carved by hunter-gatherers, the images depict both animals in profile and their tracks as well as a diversity of species, including giraffes, rhinos, monkeys, and elephants.
(Courtesy Andreas Pastoors)
To read the article, go to the link in our bio.
archaeology.org/issues/538-2401/digs11952-namibia-animal-track-way-rock-art

06/15/2024

🔘Gümüşler Monastery🔘
•Located in the town of Gümüşler, Niğde Province, Turkiye.
•Gümüşler is a Byzantine-era cave monastery, it was called Tracias during the Byzantine period and was a centre for religious learning, constructed sometime between the 8th-12th century AD.
•The monastery is carved out of a large rock and is one of the best-preserved and largest of its kind in the Cappadocia region.
•The frescoes date from the 7th to 11th centuries.
•It was built by carving the structure from a single tuff rock mass formation and consists of a square-shaped courtyard 15 metres deep, and with a church comprising of four freestanding closed aisles based on the Greek cross plan.
•The monastery also contains a subterranean warren of rooms and passageways, with reservoirs for wine and oil, crypts, a kitchen, refectory, and various monastic dwellings.
•It was only rediscovered in 1962.

06/15/2024

Swedish king Gustav II Adolfs wedding outfit in front of his wedding saddle. Livrustkammaren (The Royal Armory), Stockholm, Sweden. From circa 1620.

06/15/2024

The 2,300 Years Old Theater Of Epidaurus In Greece, Capable Of Holding 14 000 Spectators, Considered To Have Perfect Acoustics

06/15/2024

Natufian Woman found buried beside a puppy.
At a prehistoric site in northern Israel, a woman was discovered buried beside a pup; her hand resting upon the dog. The burial dates back to 12,000 years ago and adds to evidence of dog domestication in prehistoric times.

06/15/2024

Egyptian women🇪🇬

06/15/2024

The ceiling of the Hathor Temple has recently been cleaned in a careful way that removed hundreds of years of black soot without harming the ancient paint underneath. As a result of this cleaning, spectacular ceiling painting has been exposed in the main hall, and some of the most vibrant and colourful paintings dating from antiquity are now visible.

06/15/2024

The Sedgeford Hoard. Gold coins inside a cow bone
It is thought the coins were minted in northern France between 60 and 50BC and were perhaps brought to Britain by soldiers or mercenaries who were returning home with their pay.
The coins each feature a stylized horse and, due to their lack of wear and tear, could have been buried when they were fairly new

06/15/2024

Ancient Olmec of Mexico

06/15/2024

🔸The mystery of Göbekli Tepe : humanity"s first temple intrigues researchers ....
Archaeologists still don"t know how to solve the riddle of a place that predates Earth"s great civilizations by thousands of years. Göbekli Tepe is one of the great mysteries of the world. Few archaeological discoveries intrigue researchers as much as this one, which may be humanity"s first temple, located on the territory of present-day Türkiye.
It was erected around 10,000 years before Christ by nomadic societies of hunter-gatherers from the Neolithic period.
Alignment with Constellations :
Everything in Göbekli Tepe is mysterious. From the techniques used to erect the monoliths without the help of animals to the fact that no human settlements were found near this temple. The site is believed to be a shrine due to its configuration and alignment with different constellations, and thus it is deduced that there was a cult that looked to the sky.
The discoveries made in the region suggest that this was the exact point at which the revolution in agriculture, religion and even society began. It is possible that the complex of temples or shrines at Göbekli Tepe represented fertility, life or abundance, as reliefs found there depict animals.
Göbekli Tepe is a challenge for archaeologists, as it completely rejects the idea that only sedentary communities erected monumental buildings. That"s because the temple was possibly built by nomads more than 6,000 years before Stonehenge or the pyramids of Egypt.

06/15/2024

Corinthian helmet from the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) found with the warrior"s skull inside.
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06/15/2024

The annals of ancient history conceal numerous enigmas, and a particularly captivating puzzle revolves around the prospect of ancient Egyptians navigating the vast Atlantic Ocean, a remarkable 3,000 years prior to Christopher Columbus"s renowned 1492 voyage. Substantiating this hypothesis extends beyond merely noting cultural parallels found in locations like Peru and the Canary Islands, where customs such as trepanning and the presence of Co***ne Mummies.

06/15/2024

Statue of King Ptolemy XII Auletes (father of Cleopatra VII) upon reassembly in 1931
Ptolemaic, c. 80-51 B.C.
Umm el-Breighât, Medinet El-Fayoum (Crocodilopolis), Egypt.
Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria. Inv. no. 22979.
Photo n. 17. Università degli Studi di Padova.