Digging Up The Past
Digging Up The Past offers the latest historical news and research surrounding the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Near East.
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Merry Christmas, Saturnalia or festival of Sol Invictus? (opens the original)
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Some Secrets Stayed Buried. Others Were Written Down: Lost Languages, Amarna Tablets, Ancient Treasures, New Trivia Question and More. (opens the original)
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The Pharaoh's Inbox: Inside the Amarna Letters With Dr. Eric H. Cline (opens the original)
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Petros Koutoupis sits down with Dr. Eric H. Cline to discuss his latest book, Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters & the Bronze Age World They Revealed.Dr. Cline is a historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Together, they explore how the Amarna Letters were discovered, the drama surrounding the race to acquire and translate these ancient tablets, and what the letters actually reveal ab
The Mystery of Eteocypriot: Reexamining Cyprus’s Lost Language (opens the original)
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Titus an Inventor of Christianity? More Trivia, Cartoon Captions (opens the original)
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