Archaeology Odyssey
Archaeology Odyssey takes the reader on a journey through the classical world as seen through the eyes of the top archaeologists in the discipline. Written with you in mind, the experts explain the latest in classical research in a way that is accessible to the general public. Read the complete series today!
The Curse of the Last Vestal
Like other pagan priests and priestesses, the Vestal virgins lost power and influence as Christianity spread throughout the Roman empire in the fourth century A.D. In 391, the Roman emperor Theodosius effectively ended public pagan worship by cutting off state funding for sacrifices and the upkeep of temples.
Vestal Virgins
Europe Confronts Assyrian Art
The Goddess Inanna’s Love Song to King Shulgi
The king sailed in a boat
To Uruk. At the princely divine powers
Sumer and Akkad marvelled.
To the quay of Kulaba he moored the boat.
With a large wild bull of the mountains carried in
his hands,
The righteous lord, with a sheep fastened to (his)
hand,
The Sumerian King List
In the early 1900s, the colorful, cranky German-American scholar Hermann Hilprecht examined a 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet that had been excavated at the site of ancient Nippur.a What he held was the first fragment of the Sumerian King List—an ancient Mesopotamian document claiming to identify every king in Sumerian history.
Phases of Sumerian History
Early Dynastic period
c. 2900–2300 B.C.E.
Ur III (Neo-Sumerian) period
c. 2100–2000 B.C.E.
Isin-Larsa period
c. 2000–1760 B.C.E.
The Birth of Kingship
Summer Study Abroad Programs in Archaeology
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens offers summer programs for university students and high school and college teachers. The programs include extensive travel within Greece and visits to the school’s archaeological dig at the Athenian Agora. (Contact: Committee on the Summer Sessions; tel: 609–683-0800; e-mail: [email protected];Web site: www.ascsa.org).
A Subterranean Odyssey
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