Archaeology news

• Sarah Parcak: ‘Imagine being able to zoom in from space to see a pottery shard!’

  27-07-2019 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The space archaeologist on her GlobalXplorer project, deterring looters and what ancient Egypt reveals about our futureAmerican space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting high above the Earth to find clues about what is concealed beneath our feet. Her work has been the focus of BBC documentaries on Egypt, ancient Rome and the Vikings. In 2016 she won the $1m TED prize to build a website where anyone can help make discoveries using space archaeology. Now the professor at the Univer
  
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• In memory of Simon Bendall

  27-07-2019 15:00 via tenthmedieval.wordpress.com
  I’m sorry as ever for a lapse in posting. Firstly I went on actual holiday, without a laptop—some day there will be pictures, because I did take a camera—and then as soon as I was back I had feverishly to read a 723-page thesis so as to be able to help examine it the following week in Barcelona, in whose airport indeed I now write this post. I had hoped to have written you something about Byzantine coinage by this time as well, and so, I suppose, I am about to do, but it’
  
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• ‘Roman Biro’ – complete with joke – found at London building site

  27-07-2019 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Iron stylus uncovered at Bloomberg building site in City of London is ‘one of the most human finds’, say archaeologistsIt sounds just like the kind of joke that is ubiquitous in today’s cheap-and-cheerful souvenir industry: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this lousy pen.” But the tongue-in-cheek inscription recently deciphered on a cheap writing implement during excavations in the City of London is in fact about 2,000 years old.“I have come from the city
  
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