Archaeology, Artifacts & Antiquities
Reconstructing An Ancient Board Game (Now There’s A Challenge For You)
“Imagine you find a Monopoly board and a handful of street cards plus one little tin hat and a little tin shoe, nothing else,” says game historian Ulrich Schädler. Reporter Natasha Frost looks at some games from the ancient world – and at the ways scho…
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An Insufficient Antiquities Bill
(India)
The Pioneer, 27th Oct 2017.
"The Bill reflects misplaced priorities and reinforces negative stereotypes of Indian mercantilism even with respect to issues that have a deep bearing on our heritage&quo…
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The Saga of a Long-Lost 15th-Century Illuminated Prayer Book
(United States of America)
Atlas Obscura, 25th Oct 2017.
"The Luneborch manuscript vanished, and was lost for decades only to reappear again in a mysterious package."
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An Ancient Canaanite Treasure in Gaza Was Leveled to the Ground by Hamas
(Palestine)
Haaretz, 6th Oct 2017.
"Tel Es-Sakan (hill of ash) was the largest Canaanite city between Palestine and Egypt"
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Santa Found Dead? Tomb Of Real St. Nicholas May Have Been Discovered In Turkey
The body of Nicholas of Myra, the beloved fourth-century bishop whose figure morphed over the centuries into the jolly old Santa Claus seen everywhere each December, was long thought to have been disinterred in 1087 and taken to the Italian city of Bari, where his shrine was built and remains to this day. But it […]