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Archaeology | 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun tomb

In 2022 we acknowledge one the archaeology’s greatest discoveries…. discovery of Tutankhamun tomb   A timeline 1891: Howard Carter goes to Egypt as a junior artist with the Egypt Exploration Fund; he stays on and eventually is hired by Egypt’s Antiquities Service. January 8, 1905: The Saqqara affair leads to Carter’s resignation of the position as Chief Inspector for Lower Egypt. 1908: Carter is introduced to Lord Carnarvon by his old Antiquities Service boss, Gaston Maspero. 1915-1922: Carter directs excavations...

Archaeology resources

Following the report of a newly-discovered city in Italy, here’s a list of archaeology societies and other online resources UNITED KINGDOM The British Archaeological Association was founded in 1843 by Charles Roach Smith, Thomas Wright and Thomas Joseph Pettigrew, to encourage the recording, preservation, and publication of archaeological discoveries, and to lobby for government assistance for the collection of British antiquities. All three men were Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London but felt the older body was too aristocratic,...

Ancient city discovered

Archaeologists discover ‘amazing’ details of Roman city, reports The Guardian Archaeologists have mapped a complete Roman city for the first time using ground-penetrating radar, revealing highly detailed images that they say could revolutionise our understanding of how such sites worked.  As well as a bath house, theatre, shops and several temples, the team from the universities of Cambridge and Ghent have discovered a large public monument of a kind never seen before, which may relate to the religious practices of...

Archaeology Week in Australia

National Archaeology Week (NAW) in Australia – May 17 to May 23 – which aims to put ‘archaeology in the spotlight’ , is (of course) fully online this year due to coronavirus. NAW has 4 prizes : Best online event or content People’s Choice.  Nominate and vote for your favourite via social media. Bake It and Make It.  Bake a stratigraphic layer cake, french knit a scale bar, the only limit is your imagination.  Post a photo of your creation...