Hochdorf Prince - Episode 18005
The Hochdorf Prince's grave site is a Celtic burial chamber dating from 530 BC and was adorned with massive riches.
The Hochdorf Prince's grave site is a Celtic burial chamber dating from 530 BC and was adorned with massive riches.
Ireland's County Meath is home to Newgrange, a Neolithic mound with stone passageways and inner chambers.
The Battle of Visby was fought over 600 years ago on the island of Gotland. Today, it's an archaeological site that you can visit - and learn from.
A Bronze Age settlement in England, Must Farm is an extremely well-preserved settlement that has taught archaeologists a lot about that time and place.
Welcome to the Arch365 Podcast - 2018 Edition - Prepare for another year of awesome archaeology.
This is the final episode of 2017! It's been a long, difficult year but we did it! Thanks to all the people that helped make this happen. They're mentioned in the show. We're continuing this through 2018 with a new team of volunteers! Stay subscribed to get the new episodes. We're starting the numbering over at 1 with a numbering scheme of 18001. That's the year first, then, the episode number.
Thanks for listening and we'll see you in 2018 with more great archaeology daily bites!
A Bronze Age site in the Republic of Macedonia, Kokino was discovered in just 2001, but, dates back to the 19th century BC.
Some of the best-preserved Roman ruins on the Mediterranean, Leptis Magna was founded in the 7th century BC and was always a hot spot for activity and war.
Still a thriving city in Lebanon, Baalbek has been inhabited for the last 8,000 to 9,000 years!
The Silk Road was an important trade route for many years. Suyab was an Asian city and important stop on that route.
Steeped in history and death, Necromanteion was a Greek temple devoted to Hades and Persephone.
Turin is a city rich in history, each square, church and opera house could be an Arch365 episode by itself.
Otrar was a city in what is today Kazakhstan. Its place in central Asia along the fabled Silk Road made it a literal crossroads of ancient history.
Nineveh was one of the greatest cities in the ancient world… for about fifty years before a coalition of rising powers in the ancient world allied together to raze it to the ground in 612 BC.
Lindos is an archaeological site on the east coast of the island of Rhodes. The city has seen its fair share of history dating from its founding in Classical times by the the same Dorian people mentioned in your high school english class (when you were assigned to read the “Odyssey”), to the Medieval period (when the Knights of St. John defended the island from the Ottomans).
The Nabataean capital city of Petra is an archaeological site in southern Jordan. The city is most famous for temples and tombs cut into the rock walls that surround the city.
The Sannai-Maruyama Site is a prehistoric Japanese settlement that dates from the Jomon Period (14,000-300 BC), first being settled in 2900 BC and being abandoned in 2300 BC (although the dates of its exact occupation do appear to be in dispute).
Zacpeten is a Mayan city located on a peninsula on the shores of Lake Salpeten in the Peten Department (which are the equivalent US states) of northern Guatemala. The city went through several cycles of habitation and abandonment over its active lifespan.
Shuqba Cave is the site of two of the most important finds in ancient Middle Eastern archaeology. This included the discovery of a previously unknown culture that inhabited the Eastern Mediterranean during the Epipaleolithic era (which is the end of the Ice Age, approximately 12,500-9500 BC), which was named the Natufian Culture (in honor of the nearby valley, Wadi an-Natuf).
The Pyramids of Argolis were a series of pyramid shaped structures located in Argolid, Greece. Of these, only two remain (one at Hellenikon and another at Ligourio).