Archaeology Odyssey

Italics indicate words of uncertain translation.

See Tzvi Abusch, “Gilgamesh: Hero, King, God and Striving Man,” AO 03:03.

See Bruce Kuklick, “‘My Life’s Shattered Work!’ The Strange Ordeal of Hermann Hilprecht,” AO 03:03.

See Pamela Gaber with William G. Dever, “The Birth of Adonis? Cyprus Excavation Suggests a Connection Between the Greek Myth and the Hebrew Adon,” AO 01:02.

See Joseph J. Basile, “When People Lived at Petra,” AO 03:04.

See Jane K. Whitehead, “Grape Pips, Dog Bones and Acorn Missiles: Who Destroyed the Etruscan Site of La Piana?” AO 01:03.

After his father’s death at the hands of Julius Caesar in 48 B.C., Sextus Pompey took control of part of Rome’s navy and occupied Sicily,using the island as a bas efor raiding and blockading Italy.

Leaving the Vestal with food was supposed to absolve her executioners of any responsibility for her death; the virgin died not by human hands, but at the will of the gods.

Ezekiel lived in the early sixth century B.C., during the Babylonian Exile. Here he is referring back to the earlier period of the Divided Monarchy, when the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel (late eighth century B.C.) as well as Babylon.