More than 3000 years of human activity in 5 square metres

[rangerrebew]

More than 3000 years of human activity in 5 square metres
April 16, 2018, Leiden University
 

Nico Staring, researcher in Egyptian art, culture and history is taking part in an excavation mission in Saqqara. During the New Kingdom, the tombs of Horemheb and Maya were built. But also long before and after, over a period of 3.000 years, the location was used a cemetery .

People in the past often structured, used and experienced the desert landscape differently from the people that lived (long) before and after them. At the same time, however, material traces from the past, such as tombs, influenced the actions of people in the future. The area that we are excavating in this season presents a very nice opportunity to study the activities of people over a long period of time: from the New Kingdom to the Coptic period, and beyond.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-04-years-human-square-metres.html#jCp

[truth_seeker]

James Michener used an archaeology dig, as the focus of his 1965 book titled "The Source," as a means to tell the story and history of a location in Israel.

One majortopic, is the emergence of monotheism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_(novel)

I really dig James Michener books. Read them all.