In this week's Archaeology Porn, we visit the Nazca Lines in Peru, a series of hundreds of geoglyphs that likely constitute the largest archaeology site on the planet. We document how and when they were made, and by whom as well as how they survived until today, awaiting our visit! In this week's Archaeology News, we cover 3 exciting stories: 1) West African DNA confirmed in Early Medieval England - Ancient DNA study from two cemeteries - one in Kent and the other in Dorset - confirm that p...
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In this week's Archaeology Porn, we visit the Nazca Lines in Peru, a series of hundreds of geoglyphs that likely constitute the largest archaeology site on the planet. We document how and when they were made, and by whom as well as how they survived until today, awaiting our visit! In this week's Archaeology News, we cover 3 exciting stories: 1) West African DNA confirmed in Early Medieval England - Ancient DNA study from two cemeteries - one in Kent and the other in Dorset - confirm that p...
Episode 51 - Looting the Iraq Museum and Archaeology News
Into the Dust Archaeology
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Episode 51 - Looting the Iraq Museum and Archaeology News
In this week's episode of Archaeology Crime, Jason takes you through the looting of the Iraq Museum in the wake of the US-led invasion of 2003. As Saddam Hussein's Baathist regime was crumbling, international antiquities traffickers were already at work selecting their targets from among the Iraq Museum's many treasures. Though many of the looters were just normal Iraqis looking to make a buck or simply attack a symbol of the hated regime, professionals were definitely involved, and they knew...
Into the Dust Archaeology
In this week's Archaeology Porn, we visit the Nazca Lines in Peru, a series of hundreds of geoglyphs that likely constitute the largest archaeology site on the planet. We document how and when they were made, and by whom as well as how they survived until today, awaiting our visit! In this week's Archaeology News, we cover 3 exciting stories: 1) West African DNA confirmed in Early Medieval England - Ancient DNA study from two cemeteries - one in Kent and the other in Dorset - confirm that p...
