Sentences with phrase «by archaeologists of»

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What it's about: Archaeologist and professional swashbuckler Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford) is hired by the United States government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis do.

Wirlu - murra elders have led a team of anthropologists and archaeologists on an expedition into the outback as part of a three - year cultural mapping initiative sponsored by Fortescue Metals Group.

I've also published a series of four colloquia by assyriologists and archaeologists describing how earlier, from about 2500 to perhaps 300 BC, Babylonian and other Near Eastern rulers kept their citizens free and preserved their landholdings by annulling personal and agrarian debts when they took the throne — a true «tax holiday» — or when economic or military conditions warranted a general Clean Slate.

The remains of the medieval church where William Wallace is thought to have been made Guardian of Scotland after defeating the English army has been found by archaeologists.

8) «This conclusion serves to corroborate the inference made by Soviet archaeologists from their discovery of camel - headed wagons that as early as the first half of the third millennium B.C. two - humped camels were used in Turkmenistan for drawing wagons...» The Camel and the Wheel, Richard W. Bulliet p155

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

Last year Popular Mechanics announced that a team of British scientists, assisted by Israeli archaeologists, had fashioned «the most accurate image» of the face of Jesus.

If it interests you, Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist who is despised by Evangelicals and Orthodox Jews because of his so - called «revisionist» archaeology.

If your belief is that our world is only 10,000 years old because God got bored and magically created all living things exactly as they are today over the course of a week, you are basically calling all the work and discoveries by archaeologists and anthropologists a bunch of baloney.

In 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins University.

In contrast to your claims, many of the Bible's historic claims have been disproven by archaeologists, historians, astro - physicists, and geologists.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

@tallulah13 apparently google is not the most defining answer to scholarly study, He, Kedorlaomer, was a person of antiquity mentioned in the Bible, that was already a given.He was a king 4000 years ago and his treasures were discovered by archaeologists not that long ago.Up to the discoveries Kedorlaomer was an obscure reference in the «Bible «and there had been doubt as to whether he existed or not.

Nor is it the fact that in more than a century's worth of digging up the Middle East by archaeologists, not a single trace of any of these postulated «source texts» has ever turned up.

A summary statement cites a claim by a «respected scholar, Dr. J. O. Kinnaman,» that «of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found by the archaeologists, not one has ever been discovered that contradicts or denies one word, phrase, clause or sentence of the Bible, but always confirms and verifies the facts of the Biblical record.»

By the end of that century, archaeologists had excavated a number of the ruins and were learning about everyday life during biblical times.

Archaeologists worked out the basics of pottery dating by the 1920s, for example, and Carbon 14 dating entered the picture in 1933.

First found by Bedouin herdsmen, later archaeologists have gathered 17,000 fragments of Jewish texts dating to the time of Jesus.

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.

In an interview with ABC's Christiane Amanpour the archaeologist who discovered the Titanic discussed his findings from his search in Turkey for evidence of a civilization swept away by a monstrous ancient flood.

Discovery of the inscription in the ruins of Tel Dan, in northern Israel, was reported last summer by Dr. Avraham Biran, an archaeologist at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Inst.itute of Religion in Jerusalem.

Perhaps the most satisfactory attempt at reconstruction is that of Garber and Howland: see «Reconstucting Solomon's Temple» by Paul L. Garber, The Biblical Archaeologist Vol.

«The work of renovation should help archaeologists and historians gain a better sense of the tomb, which was damaged and greatly reduced by the fourth - century construction of the church,» Evans said.

While archaeobotanists and archaeologists today have a much clearer picture of the range of foods used by ancient peoples of Mesoamerica in their daily subsistence and dietary practices, the information on the nature, extent, structure, and timing of chili pepper use or consumption in the archaeological record remains scant.

Following the reported release of the German archaeologists kidnapped in Kaduna state, a top - level security consultant and public affairs analyst, Dehinde Ariyo, has said that kidnapping thrives unabated in Nigeria because of the outdated security architecture in the country, the low - level of ammunition used by security operatives, and government's laxity in putting proactive measures in place to prevent the menace.

Khipus are mostly known by archaeologists as the records of the Inka civilization, the vast multiethnic empire that encompassed as many as 18 million people and nearly 3,000 miles along the Andes and the Pacific coast of South America.

A team stands in Palace 6000, one of the ashlar palaces, originally excavated in the 1960s by Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin.

Standing above a slope at the southern part of the tel, he surveyed the handiwork left by archaeologists whose labors were well intentioned for the time but whose technologies were crude compared with modern techniques.

However, the Coyolxauhqui relief sparked such national excitement that archaeologists were permitted to embark on long - term excavations, first led by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.

Commanding an army of workers bearing chisels and brushes, the iconoclastic Israel Finkelstein, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist and director of the Megiddo Expedition, orchestrates an upheaval of his own: By opening the belly of Megiddo, he is challenging the narrative of the Bible, upending ancient Israeli history and derailing what we thought we knew about the Iron Age in this region called the Levant.

There, archaeologists had dated the earliest settlements of the Hebrews — recognized by the lack of pig bones, reflecting their pork taboo — to perhaps the 13th century B.C. Had these people really been slaves in Egypt, returning as invaders as Yadin put forth?

The Annual Reports, appearing since 1995, contain news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, especially about the censorship of history and the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources.

The site dates back to around 2,000 BC and was discovered by chance when ANU Archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman, who was conducting geophysical surveys of a known site outside the village of Looe in Cornwall, was approached by a farmer about a possible site in a neighbouring field.

The latest work, led by geneticists Iñigo Olalde and David Reich at Harvard Medical School, involved 103 researchers at dozens of institutions, including Bronze Age archaeologists.

Archaeologist João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in England and his colleagues found 50,000 - year - old perforated painted seashells and pigment containers on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, a region that was inhabited solely by Neandertals at the time.

There, the team of archaeologists from Tübingen led by Pfälzner, discovered a pristine king's grave in 2002.

Archaeologists who have uncovered two massive carved stucco panels in the Mirador Basin of Guatemala's northern rain forest say they are the earliest known representation of the Mayan creation myth, predating other such artifacts by a millennium.

Recent excavations led by University of Sheffield archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson have led him to suggest the two sites were built as a single complex of complementary stone and wood circles linked by a river route.

Until recently, the oldest records of human sites in North America generally accepted by archaeologists were about 14,000 years old.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

One group of archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting archaeologists, led by Anthony Harding, president of the European Association of Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting Archaeologists and a professor at the University of Exeter, wrote an open letter to the Bosnian government denouncing the pyramids as a «cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public.»

Michael Meyer, an archaeologist at the Free University of Berlin, who was not part of the team but who attended a press conference about the discovery last week, says that any of the elements by themselves wouldn't have been convincing, but together the find is compelling.

-- «black earth» that was purposely enriched by humans in the past — archaeologists have concluded that at least parts of the rainforest must have been home to large, agricultural settlements.

A team of archaeologists, led by Cat Jarman from the University of Bristol's Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, has discovered that a mass grave uncovered in the 1980s dates to the Viking Age and may have been a burial site of the Viking Great Army war dead.

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»).

The 16th century bones — two femurs (thigh bones) and an ulna (wing)-- have been analysed by University of Exeter archaeologists and identified as among some the first turkeys to be brought to England from the Americas.

«Our research tells us that turkeys had been domesticated by 400 - 500 AD,» explains Field Museum archaeologist Gary Feinman, one of the paper's authors.

Excavations led by archaeologists Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye - Biddle at St Wystan's Church in Repton in the 1970s and 1980s discovered several Viking graves and a charnel deposit of nearly 300 people underneath a shallow mound in the vicarage garden.

These relics of ancient South Americans add to evidence from nearby sites challenging the longstanding view of Clovis people as the first Americans (SN: 8/11/12, p. 15), a team led by geochronologist Christelle Lahaye of the University of Bordeaux 3 and archaeologist Eric Boëda of the University of Paris X reports March 4 in the

A report by the BBC described Osmanagich as a Bosnian archaeologist who had studied the pyramids of Latin America and characterized his statements as being supported by substantial evidence.