Archaeologists Unearth Headless Sphinx

Archaeologists who have been digging for more than a year at the villa of Roman Emperor Hadrian in Tivoli have unearthed a monumental staircase, a statue of an athlete and what appears to be a headless sphinx.

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This article first appeared at aish.com and is the original source of the material. I want to personally thank the wonderful people at aish.com for giving us permission to reprint this important two part article by Rabbi Leibel Reznick.

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Down the Rabbit Hole

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As thousands lined up to catch a glimpse of Nefertiti at the newly reopened Neues Museum here, another skirmish erupted in the culture wars.

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Much of the world knows Petra, the ancient ruin in modern-day Jordan that is celebrated in poetry as "the rose-red city, 'half as old as time,"' and which provided the climactic backdrop for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

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An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ's burial cloth is a medieval fake.

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A team of British archaeologists working in ancient Rome's seaport has unearthed the remains of a "mini-Colosseum" — a smaller version of the monumental arena built in the center of the imperial capital.

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Archaeologists say they have unveiled what they believe to be remains of the "dining room" of the Roman emperor Nero, part of his palatial residence built in the first century.

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... "A 5,000-year-old Venus figure has been found as part of an excavation being carried out in Çanakkale's Ezine district"..

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Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.

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"Istanbul is a dynamically changing city, every year increasing in population," says Zeynep Buket, an engineer working with Turkey's transportation ministry. "We are in need of radical systems, and this radical system is a mass transit system."

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In a clear case of geology and archaeology complementing each other, scientists have studied the most recent limestone deposits that filled the Chicxulub crater in Mexico, providing accurate dating of the rocks and a valuable basis for archaeologists to research the ancient Maya. …

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The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems.

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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered one of the earliest depictions of a menorah, the seven-branched candelabra that has come to symbolize Judaism, the Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday. The menorah was engraved in stone around 2,000 years ago and found in a synagogue re …

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By Catherine Kozak The Virginian-Pilot © September 10, 2009 NEWPORT NEWS A World War II Navy patrol boat, untouched off the coast of Hatteras since it was sunk by a German sub in 1942, has been discovered, NOAA said.

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A colossal statue of Apollo, the Greek god of the sun, light, music and poetry, has emerged from white calcified cliffs in southwestern Turkey, Italian archaeologists announced.

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British archaeologists said Monday they believe they have solved the ancient mystery of how the giant stone statues on Easter Island acquired distinctive red hats.

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The wall is believed to have been built by the Canaanites, an ancient pagan people who the Bible says inhabited Jerusalem and other parts of the Middle East before the advent of monotheism.

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While some of us have been worried about Dennis, He's been busy travelling and seeing incredible historical locations in Turkey. I'm so glad he's sharing it with the rest of us. He has another one coming up soon .

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A carving believed to be Scotland's earlist human face, dating back thousands of years, has been found on the Orkney island of Westray.

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Mastodon bones found in a coal mine slurry pit 30 miles south of Terre Haute, IN. Kudos to Vectren for doing the RIGHT thing and notifying the Division of Reclamation archaeologist about the find even though there are no paleontology rules governing mining in Indiana.

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A very interesting find in London. It is double interesting in that this find is below a two meter thick peat bog.

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An ancient warrior was found near Rome in a floating tomb. See what else they found and what else they are also looking for.

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A team of experts recently discovered a six-kilometer-long lava cave system on Easter Island thought to have been used as a refuge by the island's inhabitants during the 16th century.

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Iraq's U.S.-led invaders seriously damaged Babylon, driving machinery over sacred paths, bulldozing hilltops and digging trenches through one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, experts said.

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In the last part of the 20th century, a handful of archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs that appeared to be writing.

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