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A Glass Making Workshop for the Pharaoh Ramses II
http://archaeology.about.com/od/archaeologicalsites/a/qantir.htm
Excavations at the New Kingdom Egyptian capital of Piramesses have
identified an early glass making workshop, built under and no doubt for
the use of the glass artisans in the court of Ramesses II.
Book Review: The Rape of the Nile
http://archaeology.about.com/od/historyofarchaeology/fr/fagan04.htm
Brian Fagan's The Rape of the Nile is a resonant description of those
days when science and scientific thought was being forged, both awful
and awe-inspiring.
Glossary Entries
http://archaeology.about.com/od/glossary/
Just a few this week: Tiwanaku Empire, Chinchawas (Peru), Monte Loreto
(Italy), Tikal (Guatemala), Lene Hara Cave (Indonesia), Alexander
Marshack [1918-2004] (and if you've been reading your Antiquity lately,
you know I have been too).
Quiz: Olmec Civilization
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/blolmec.htm
What do you know about the sophisticated central American culture known
as the Olmec? Give this quiz a spin and find out.
Please redistribute at will; and thanks!
K. Kris Hirst
The Wasteflake Project
http://www.wasteflake.com and
Guide for Archaeology @ About.com
http://archaeology.about.com
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. - Lazarus
Long (Robert Heinlein)
More Quotes: http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/