Winter 2018, Featured Articles, Daily News
A 4,000-Year-Old Footprint, and a Treasure House Makeover
Fri, Dec 22, 2017
The stunning visual telling of some of the world's earliest civilizations.
A 4,000-Year-Old Footprint, and a Treasure House Makeover
No one knows the name. Dead for 4,000 years, this ancient person left a legacy that is now enshrined behind glass in a case that will soon be viewed by thousands of people beginning in April, 2018. It is a solidified imprint of a human foot, originally set in a newly molded wet mud brick that, once dried, became one of many building blocks used in the construction of the ancient city of Ur in present-day Iraq. The footprint-endowed mud brick will grace the entrance of a space designed to introduce an astonishing array of treasures reflecting some of the world's first achievements in urban civilization...
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/winter-2018/article/a-4-000-year-old-footprint-and-a-treasure-house-makeover
