Tag: cultural history
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How This Bioarchaeologist Connects Maryland’s Past to Its Present
How can we learn about people who lived centuries ago, but were not included in typical written records? Biocultural anthropologist, Alex McDougle, guides us through her work on free and…
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The Ancient Deities People Called Upon
Assyriologist and public educator, Megan Lewis, guides us through some of the surprising sources scholars use to understand the deities people turned to in the past when they needed help.…
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The Making and Remaking of the Zodiac in Roman Egypt
Egyptologist, Dr. Lingxin Zhang guides us through fragmented papyri, recycled temple documents, and what one woman did when she learned her family’s fate. In our conversation, she shares what ancient…
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What 3D Modelling Reveals About the Past
Archaeologist, Madeline Robinson, guides us through a shipwreck, ancient temples in Malta, and very tiny stone tools she has studied through 3D modelling. In our conversation, we explore what these…
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When Egyptian and Canaanite Temples Met
Archaeologist and Egyptologist, Dr. Brooke Norton, guides us through a spectrum of ancient Egyptian and Canaanite temples where she shares interesting insights about architecture, ritual, and the people behind them.
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Inside the Physics of Past Textile Techniques
Physicist, Dr. Sabetta Matsumoto, takes us inside the inner workings of an Egyptian knitted sock and other historical textile techniques, including embroidery and smocking. In our conversation, we explore what…
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Unsealing the Past
Archaeologist, Dr. Siobhan Shinn, takes us inside her work on clay sealings from sites in Egypt and Sudan. In our conversation, we explore how investigating these unassuming lumps of clay…
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The Sprawling Artifact That Transformed Peru’s Landscape
This post explores a Nasca geoglyph, the spider, that is collectively part of the Lines of Nasca and Pampas de Jumana.
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How This Ancient Greek Artifact Reframes Color and Identity
This post explores a folio manuscript that gives us a glimpse into 4 millennia of astronomical knowledge and Armenian cultural history.
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The Armenian Artifact That Preserves 4 Millennia of Astronomical Knowledge
This post explores a folio manuscript that gives us a glimpse into 4 millennia of astronomical knowledge and Armenian cultural history.