Other articles
This is a collection of articles on various archaeological subjects, which may or may not have appeared in our magazines in the past.
| Persecution Ancient Assyrian statues are just one of the targets for persecution under ISIS fundamentalists | ISIS and the Prophet Jonah Madmen with hammers hope to earn favour with God but may be opening the way for archaeology. | |
| Abraham in Ur If there are two or more cities called Ur, which one was Abraham's home town? | Great Bristol Box Mystery Objects from Sir Leonard Woolley's excavations at Ur are mysteriously found in Bristol! | |
| Where David slew Goliath If King David really existed, this is precisely the sort of administrative centre we would expect to find! | Vestal Virgins Get Plaited When a Vestal Virgin did her hair it took seven plaits, three knots and a length of rope to hold it all in place! | |
| Cut Throats and Inflated Chests Did Rameses III's cravat hide a dreadful secret? Worse than the inflated chest of the mummy by his side? | Sumerian Climate Change Did ancient climate change bring about the fall of the Sumerian civilisation - or was it just smart Akkadians? | |
| The Murdered Red-head The British Museum's most popular mummy turns out to be a murder victim! | Destroy the Pyramids! Muslim fanatic Murgan Salem al-Gohari calls for the "idols" in Egypt to be destroyed. | |
| The Breakthrough that Isn't Over-hyped press releases are the source of endless frustration and not a little cynicism. | Who robbed the Bent Pyramid? Others devise theories about how the pyramids were built; Cintec's MD has a theory about how they fell down. |
