Raiders of the Lost Ark was released in June 1981, inaugurating a series of films about a daredevil, anti-Nazi and somewhat cowboy archaeologist. The character is a hodgepodge of authentic archaeologists who are sometimes just as diehard as he is. Scene from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark (rele
In 1947, two Bedouin shepherds who were trying to rescue one of their goats, which had fallen into a chasm in the Qumran Valley (present-day Israel), found some ceramic pots containing seven parchment scrolls. They sold them in pieces to a couple of antique dealers in Bethlehem and, as usually happe
A Viking ship grave, burial mounds and five longhouses have been discovered in Norway, thanks to the use of ground-penetrating radar Viking grave ship detected by georadar in Norway To reach Valhalla, their paradise, Viking warriors sometimes embarked for Odins palace aboard large ships... Archae
In 2016, the company Visual Forensic produced this astonishing digital facial reconstruction of a young English Protestant who died in Paris of the plague in 1636. The monograph dedicated to him Thomas Craven. Chronicle of a ghost is now available in bookstores . 3D facial reconstruction of Thomas