Sentences with phrase «archaeologists believe»

Excavations have been ongoing ever since, and this wonderfully evocative exhibition displayed just a tiny proportion of the treasures archaeologists believe lie undiscovered.

Most of the archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was an estate that was built for the Inca Emperor.

Because it was built on high ground, archaeologists believe the temple was also used as a lighthouse to guide trade boats coming from Cozumel, Tulum and Xaman - ha (Playa del Carmen).

Archaeologists believe Barton Creek Cave was used for agricultural and fertility rites, family burials, human sacrifices and ritual bloodlettings.

Archaeologists believe that the rise of Chichen Itza as a major power started around 600 A.D. and continued until the 13th century when the Maya revolted against the rulers of Chichen Itza.

Archaeologists believe the Maya used this area as a ritual blood - letting site because of the broken pottery, obsidian blades and another carved piece of slate scattered throughout this ceremonial area.

Most archaeologists believe that Machu Picchu was built as an estate for the Inca emperor Pachacuti (1438 — 1472).

Archaeologists believe neither that the structure was a tomb nor that the personages buried in it were priests.

Archaeologists believe Altun Ha was settled around 250 B.C., and continued into the 10th century.

Archaeologists believe she was sacrificed by a priest as part of a religious ritual.

Archaeologists believe that Colha may have been settled almost 1500 years before any other Maya site, and that chocolate was consumed at Colha as early as 1000 - 400 BC - making Colha one of the earliest Mayan settlements to process and eat chocolate.

A slight detour takes you to the ancient petroglyph site, where mysterious carvings surround a freshwater pool at the base of a waterfall — archaeologists believe them to be sacred symbols carved by Taino Indians over 1,000 years ago.

They explain what each building was used for and some have drawings of what archaeologists believe the buildings once looked like.

Archaeologists believe that construction on Machu Picchu started around 1450.

Archaeologists believe that these ruins were first inhabited around 200 B.C.

This stone might be embedded in the hilt of a newly discovered sword that archaeologists believe belonged to King Arthur: Excalibur.

These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone Free Sue's Witch Magic Makeover games for everybody!

Scottish Justice Minister urged to quit after mandarin tries to «interfere» with police commissioner report These are external links and will open in a new window Archaeologists believe they have discovered the world's oldest lunar calendar in an

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Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.

Traditional accounts hold that Homo sapiens arrived in Europe about 43,000 years ago, and some archaeologists believe they taught the supposedly dim - witted Neanderthal locals how to use specialized bone tools.

Now two archaeologists believe they may have uncovered a way to solve the mystery.

A team of international archaeologists believe a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari — the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II.

Archaeologists believe the fires may have been lit as some sort of funeral ritual around where the toddler, known as the Lozoya Child, was placed around 38,000 to 42,000 years ago.

Archaeologists believe she was sacrificed to appease Maya deities as populations plummeted.

Archaeologists believe she was sacrificed by a priest as part of a religious ritual.

When these monkeys bang rocks together, they make stone flakes that resemble those archaeologists believe humans made two million to three million years ago.This video was reproduced with permission and was first published on October 19, 2016.

Turkish archaeologists believe they may have discovered the remains of St Nicholas, the inspiration behind Father Christmas.

Turkish archaeologists believe they may have discovered the remains of St Nicholas, the inspiration behind... More

So advanced were their artifacts that, for years after their discovery in the late 1920s, most archaeologists believed the people had evolved from the Neanderthals whose remains were found in neighboring caves.

Archaeologists believed that the images at White Shaman were essentially unrelated, each depicting an individual ritual, and at first glance, the mural did seem chaotic: Swarms of indecipherable markings surrounded figures painted one on top of the other.

Monte Verde For decades, archaeologists believed that the Clovis people were the first Americans, arriving via an ancient land bridge between Siberia and Alaska and then making their way south.

For most of the 20th century, archaeologists believed the first residents of the Americas arrived 13,200 years ago and belonged to the so - called Clovis culture, defined by their distinctive fluted stone tools.

Questions of Gender Roles Site discoverer James Mellaart and other archaeologists believed that Çatalhöyük was a matriarchal society — these early theories were based in part on clay figurines found in the settlement and believed to represent a «mother goddess.»

Until recently, archaeologists believed that agriculture arose among people living along the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates when, about 10 000 years ago, they suddenly learnt to sow and harvest cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

Archaeologist believe that Santa Rita is almost certainly the ancient city of Chetumal and was occupied from 2000 BC to 1530 AD, with its primary importance in the Late Post Classic Period from 1350 - 1530 when it was an important center for the trade of honey, vanilla, cacao and anchiote to the northern Yucatan and other locations.

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(CNN)- Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed relics from an apocalyptic plague that some Christians believed heralded the end of the world - an idea that likely helped spread the faith centuries ago.

Ceramic evidence indicates occupation of the City of David, within present - day Jerusalem, as far back as the Copper Age (c. 4th millennium BCE) with evidence of a permanent settlement during the early Bronze Age (c. 3000 — 2800 BCE) The Execration Texts, which refer to a city called Roshlamem or Rosh - ramen] and the Amarna letters (c. 14th century BCE) may be the earliest mention of the city Some archaeologists, including Kathleen Kenyon, believe Jerusalem] as a city was founded by Northwest Semitic people with organized settlements from around 2600 BCE.

Exactly how the conflagration there unfolded can never be known, but Harvard archaeologist Steven LeBlanc believes the scenario he pieced together based on oral legends of similar battles of the Hopi, who live about 150 miles to the west, is plausible.

Archaeologists largely believe that the first Americans arrived by a land bridge from Asia about 15,000 years ago, and some went on to develop Clovis tools (see «A history of the first Americans in 9 1/2 sites»).

«Before the excavation, we believed that Byzantium [the precursor to Istanbul] had been established in the seventh century B.C. by Greek colonists,» says archaeologist Ufuk Kocabas.

Archaeologists, she read, believed the paintings were related to shamanism, the common religious practice among tribes in the region.

Retired University of Texas archaeologist Solveig Turpin, who began researching in the Lower Pecos in the 1970s, believes connecting 4,000 - year - old paintings to a contemporary tribe is unwarranted.

Don't believe it, says archaeologist Steve Tuck from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Instead, a study by archaeologist Magnus Artursson of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden suggests that these societies formed hierarchical chiefdoms some 800 years before such social structures were believed to have emerged.

«What was believed before our study was that Europe was the center of the earliest explosion in human creativity, especially cave art,» says geochemist and archaeologist Maxime Aubert of Griffith University, Gold Coast, in Australia, who led the new study.

The archaeologists who made the find believe that the two groups were distinct, but shared trade links.

VANCOUVER, CANADA — For years archaeologists have searched for a sign of the earliest Americans — the mysterious newcomers who, it's generally believed, set out from Asia and spread down the Pacific coast by boat more than 14,000 years ago.

Archaeologists are finding new evidence that Paleoindians spread throughout North and South America earlier than long believed — and even camped high in the Andes Mountains.

On the other: American archaeologists Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas, who are married, believe the ancient city of Caral was part of an agricultural society that expanded to the coast.