Egypt’s great necropolis continues to reveal its secrets Nathan Steinmeyer June 10, 2022 0 Comments 160 views Share Painted wooden sarcophagi uncovered at the Saqqara tombs in Egypt. Courtesy Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Excavations at the site of the ancient Saqqara tombs continue to amaze with the discovery of 250 sarcophagi and 150 … Lire la suite
Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle In the earliest Biblical painting, Greek philosophers admire the king’s wisdom Theodore Feder June 09, 2022 14 Comments 29298 views Share Read Theodore Feder’s article “Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle” as it originally appeared in Biblical Archaeology Review, September/October 2008. The article was first republished in Bible History Daily in October 2012.—Ed. … Lire la suite
Among the 28 regiments raised in New York as a result of President Abraham Lincoln’s call for 300,000 volunteers on July 1, 1862, was Colonel Joseph Welling’s 138th New York Volunteer Infantry, a regiment that was re-designated the 9th New York Heavy Artillery on December 9, 1862. Among those who answered Lincoln’s appeal and joined … Lire la suite
Josephus on the Essenes Biblical Archaeology Society Staff June 09, 2022 36 Comments 50273 views Share Steve Mason argues that the texts of Josephus cannot be relied upon to support the conclusion that the Essenes were the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the inhabitants of Qumran. Flavius Josephus was a first-century Jewish historian, … Lire la suite
June 08, 2022 0 Comments 853 views Share Limestone relief (fourth century B.C.E.) from ancient Persia showing a lion and bull in combat. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Photo: Michael Tropea Through August 8, 2022The Getty VillaPacific Palisades, Californiawww.getty.edu For more than a millennium, from around 550 B.C.E. to 650 … Lire la suite
One of the Italian Campaign’s most noteworthy warriors remained anonymous for decades — partly because his mission was top-secret, and partly due to him being already dead at the time. Sicily was, as Winston Churchill described it, Europe’s “soft underbelly”: pivotal for taking Italy, reclaiming the Mediterranean and driving north into the Continent. But how … Lire la suite
Il secondo paese più grande dell’America meridionale è noto per la sua natura meravigliosa e la sua cultura vivace. Ma la particolarità delle città più grandi è che ognuna di esse offre luoghi culturali come chiese e musei. Allo stesso tempo, è un punto di accesso a una varietà di meraviglie e attività naturali. Inoltre, … Lire la suite
Daniel Ogden June 07, 2022 0 Comments 13602 views Share Sleep and Death carry Sarpedon, who was killed while fighting for the Trojans in the Trojan War, on this early fifth-century B.C. amphora. The ancients associated sleep, dreams and death with the ability to predict the future, perhaps because they believed the future was hatched … Lire la suite
From the 1709 Battle of Poltava through the end of World War II, Russia has excelled in backing up its more mobile forces with powerful and numerous artillery. From the time President Vladimir Putin launched his “special military operation” into Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, big guns have been a mainstay, both for battery fire … Lire la suite
A 20-foot portrait of a uniformed Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee — with a slave guiding his horse in the background – has remained towering over cadets in the library of the U.S. Military Academy, better known as West Point. That is most likely to change, and soon, according to Politico. A commission that was … Lire la suite
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