Sentences with phrase «modern archeologists»

From exploring the remnants of the battle of Kadesh in Ramses the Great's afterlife, to discovering that Nefertiti's final resting place is secretly linked to Tutankhamen's tomb as some modern archeologists suspect, it's a bit of a masterclass in historical fiction.»

Until the modern archeologist provided clay tablets, inscriptions, and artifacts, the Bible was the major historical source for important aspects of the ancient world.

Writers have compared him to a modern archeologist who uses salvaged materials — television sets, plastic bags, liquor signs, grocery carts, oil barrels and fake luxury goods — to interpret the history and emotions attached to those «recycled» elements.

Not exact matches

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

In short, and not surprisingly, the World's most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of acc.umulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders were wrong.

He is a bit of a strange creature in modern economics: as much an economic historian and archeologist as a number - crunching theorist.

But archeologist Alexander Marshack of Harvard's Peabody Museum says it's most likely the artist was a more modern human, since known Neanderthal artifacts to date, aside from tools, have been limited to things like beads and worked ivory.

By tracking changes in ancient atoms, archeologists are establishing the astonishing antiquity of modern humanity.

Sometimes he has the chance to be onsite during the excavation as the archeologists collect the remains with gloved hands to prevent modern DNA contamination, from their skin cells and microbiome.

The unearthing of an ancient mass grave filled with Roman skeletons has left archeologists in modern Turkey grappling for answers after they uncovered the Demre is a town and its surrounding district in the Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, named after the river Demre.

The wrath of an ancient and evil princess (Sofia Boutella) is unleashed on the modern world when her tomb is uncovered by a couple of grave robbers (Tom Cruise Jake Johnson) and an archeologist (Annabelle Wallis).

Since then, standards for conducting digs have been tightened up largely thanks to British diplomat and archeologist Gertrude Bell (1868 - 1926), once head of the Iraqi Antiquities Service under the British Mandate, who is credited as a seminal participant in establishing both the National Museum of Iraq and the modern - day borders of Iraq (the region of Baghdad and Basra were formed into a single country in 1921, the region of Mosul was added five years later).

The ruins of the ancient structures had their stones reused for residential construction of the agricultural village of Rockstone Pond in modern times, but the ancient site did not come to the attention of archeologists until 1963, when the existence of a sizable ancient site was recognized from the air by pilot and amateur Mayanist Hal Ball.

The owner is an archeologist whose work has inspired her to bring this ancient construction into a modern hotel.

Although no one knows the original name of the city, today the site is called the «Stone Lady» (Xunatunich in modern Mayan) due to persistent stories of a woman in white that haunted the original British archeologists and has been regularly seen even up until modern times.

You are part of a team of archeologists excavating an historic region of modern day France.