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David Randall-MacIver
As a young man of 26, the British-born archaeologist and anthropologist David Randall-MacIver began his career working at Abydos as […]
View MoreWhen Stone Is More Than Stone
Scattered Across the world on the surface and in buried deposits are billions of prehistoric stone artifacts the most durable […]
View MoreHarold L. Dibble, Curator, European Archaeology Section
HAROLD L. DIBBLE, Curator-in-Charge of the European Archaeology Section at the Museum, has been fascinated with stone tools and archaeology […]
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Meet the Curators – Josef Wegner
The Museum’s Josef Wegner, Associate Curator in the Egyptian Section, has been interested in Egyptology since childhood. Growing up in […]
View MoreTime and Memory in Ancient Egyptian Cemeteries
When travelers visit ancient sites in modern Egypt, they experience a static and soften recreated snapshot of a moment time […]
View MoreAn Ice Age Oasis in Jordan
If you visited the Wadi al-Hasa region of west central Jordan today, you would probably find it hard to picture […]
View MoreMiddle Egypt in Prehistory
The word Egypt for many people evokes images of one of the great civilizations of the ancient world and represents […]
View MoreMapping Petra
In 1993 Martha Joukowsky opened a new excavation at the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southwest Jordan (see box […]
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Excavating the Residence of an Ancient Egyptian Mayor
For 1000 miles, from the Mediterranean Sea south into Nubia, the Nile Valley is dense with the great buildings of […]
View MoreThe Beginnings of Winemaking and Viniculture in the Ancient Near East and Egypt
The origins of winemaking and viniculture are shrouded in the mists of human prehistory. Scenarios of how wine might have […]
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