Archaeology
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Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sit
Excavations at Atapuerca, an archaeological site in Spain
Nabonidus cylinder from Sippar
Extract describing the excavation
Cyriacus of Ancona (fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli)
Bronze Age
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The Bronze Age is an archaeological and anthropological term defining a phase in the development of material culture among ancient societies in Asia, the Near East and Europe. An ancient civilisation
Archaeology
…He undertook excavations in Wiltshire from around 1798, funded by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Cunnington made meticulous recordings of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, and the terms he used to categorize and describe them are still used by archaeologists today. Future U.S. President Thomas Jefferson also did…
One of the Alaca Höyük bronze standards from a pre-Hittite tomb dating to the 3rd millennium BC, from the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations in Ankara
Hittite bronze tablet from Çorum-Boğazköy dating from 1235 BC, Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara
Sphinx-lion of Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC)
Late 3rd-millennium BC silver cup from Marvdasht, Fars, with linear-Elamite inscription