Geographical Place Names in Ancient History: An Online Thesaurus
The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN) is now available for free download. This resource of over 2 million place names includes ancient and modern names. It’s an invaluable resource for...
View ArticleGreat Hypostyle Hall of Karnak Project
For all you Egyptophiles out there, here’s an interesting project (and site) focused on the great hypostyle halls of the massive Karnak temple. It even has a tour!
View ArticleAncient Near Eastern Place Markers for Google Earth
This is pretty cool – and it must have been a lot of work. If you use Google Earth and like ancient Near Eastern Studies, you wanted this yesterday.
View ArticleThe Myth of Gobekli Tepe: What the Archaeological Fringe Isn’t Telling You
If you’re into archaeology, neolithic civilization, ancient religion and, of course, paleobabble, you’ve head of Gobekli Tepe. But in case not, Gobekli Tepe is an archaeological site in Turkey whose...
View ArticleAliens, the Sphinx, and Fantastic Archaeology
Jason Colavito has another telling and humorous review of the latest Ancient Aliens episode from season 7. Jason’s review starts this way: Tonight’s exceptionally boring episode of Ancient Aliens,...
View ArticleDissertation on Mycenean Religion at Knossos
I came across this dissertation this evening – it’s open access: J. Gulizio, Mycenaean Religion at Knossos, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas-Austin (2011)
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Elongated Skulls: Not a Mystery
I wish I had a dollar for every TV show, website, or ancient alien enthusiast email that touts the bogus idea that elongated skulls are proof of either aliens, nephilim, or both. It’s utter nonsense....
View ArticleMedieval Pyramid PaleoBabble Reborn
That’s the gist of this informative essay /by Jason Colavito: “Review of Scott Creighton’s “The Secret Chamber of Osiris” (2015). As usual, Jason has done his homework and exposes how Creighton (the...
View ArticleMike Interviewed on the Alexxcast
You can listen to the interview here. The planned subject was ancient astronaut material, but the interview wound up going in all sorts of directions. Toward the end I talk about the importance of...
View ArticleReview of Edited Volume of Papers Delivered at Jerusalem Conference on the...
The Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature just published a review of James H. Charlesworth’s edited volume, The Tomb of Jesus and His Family? Exploring Ancient Jewish Tombs...
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