Archaeology NowLearn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time. Discover how the oldest known writing, in cuneiform script on tablets of clay, gives us a full picture of the ancient Mesopotamian ghost experience: who might be expected to be a ghost, how to keep the dead happy in the netherworld, how to banish annoying ghosts that keep appearing and how to summon the dead to come back and disclose the future.
The First Ghost Stories | Dr. Irving Finkel - Live EventsArchaeology Now2020-11-06 | Learn how the near-universal belief in ghosts goes back to the beginning of time. Discover how the oldest known writing, in cuneiform script on tablets of clay, gives us a full picture of the ancient Mesopotamian ghost experience: who might be expected to be a ghost, how to keep the dead happy in the netherworld, how to banish annoying ghosts that keep appearing and how to summon the dead to come back and disclose the future.
Research: El Neolítico en la cueva de la Pileta (Benaoján, Málaga). 2016. Miguel Córtes Sánchez, et. al. Archivo De Prehistoria Levantina. Vol. XXXI, Valencia, 2016, p. 119-136
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La Pileta (Benaoján, Málaga) cien años después. Aportaciones al conocimiento de su secuencia arqueológica. Miguel Córtes Sánchez y María Simón Vallejo. SAGVNTVM (P.L.A.V.), 39, 2007: 45 – 64.
Follow Archaeology Now Houston http://archaeologynow.org facebook.com/ArchaeologyNowHouston twitter.com/archaeologyhou bit.ly/2XfhcFlThe Ancient Story of Chocolate: Dr. Rosemary Joyce | Tiny LecturesArchaeology Now2021-02-13 | First it was a by-product of beer-making. Then it was an elixir for kings. Finally, it swept the world as a sumptuous coveted sweet we know today. Discover more about the ancient story of chocolate. Created with support from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Gallop through history to learn about Alexander's special bond with his horse, an extraordinary stallion named Bucephalus.Tiny Lectures: Memorial Murals | Amy C. Evans & Israel McCloudArchaeology Now2020-09-18 | AMY C. EVANS is an award-winning artist, writer, and documentarian based in Houston, Texas. She holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MA in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. Amy built the documentary program at the Southern Foodways Alliance, headquartered at the University of Mississippi, where she served as their lead oral historian for more than a decade. Her latest project is “Houston in 2020: Self-Employed Black Artists” and is funded by a grant from the Houston Arts Alliance. Amy’s first book, co-authored with Martha Hall Foose and published by Chronicle Books, A Good Meal Is Hard to Find: Storied Recipes from the Deep South, was released in April 2020 and is being celebrated as "one of the most unique art volumes this spring [that] doubles as a cookbook."
TITLE: MEMORIAL MURALS Amy C. Evans is an award-winning artist, writer, and oral historian whose most recent project is “Houston in 2020: Self-Employed Black Artists,” a multimedia project documenting the impact of current sociopolitical, economic, and cultural factors on five Black artists in the Bayou City. Meet one of those artists, Israel McCloud, a 4th-generation muralist and sign painter who believes that he has a responsibility to use his work as a mechanism for change. Three of his most recent murals were created in the summer of 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are documents of violence and injustice, pain and loss. His work is part of a long tradition of artists memorializing significant cultural events in community spaces.
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