Archaeologists on Tuesday began a high-tech search of historic St. Michael's Cemetery to find the remains of countless people buried there as early as 1763.
"We'll be exposing the unseen population," said Margo S. Stringfield, an archaeologist with the Archeology Institute of the University of West Florida.
For nine more days, faculty, staff and students from UWF and the University of Mississippi's Center for Archeological Research will combine remote sensing techniques and radar with global positioning system technology to scour the 8-acre cemetery on Alcaniz Street.
Actually, it's a remote sensing update. They're using GPR to locate graves.
Online dig update Archaeologists Bring Egyptian Excavation to the Web
Egyptologist Betsy Bryan and her crew are once again sharing their work with the world through an online diary, a digital window into day-to-day life on an archaeological dig.
Starting Thursday, Jan. 5, visitors to “Hopkins in Egypt Today” at
http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html
will find photos of Bryan and her students working on Johns Hopkins University’s 11th annual excavation at the Mut Temple Precinct in Luxor, where they continue to explore the Egyptian New Kingdom (1567 to 1085 B.C.E.).
This is a GREAT site. Check the link to the site page. Great use of the web to let people know what you're doing and why. It's great that they do daily updates. Hopefully, they can put some interpretations of what they're finding along with the pictures as they go. Definitely check this site out as often as you can.
Earliest Mayan writing found in pyramid
Newly discovered hieroglyphs show that the Maya were writing at a complex level 150 years earlier than previously thought.
The glyphs, which date to about 250 B.C., were found on preserved painted walls and plaster fragments in the pyramidal structure known as Las Pinturas, in San Bartolo, Guatemala.
Las Pinturas also yielded the previously oldest samples of Mayan writing, dating back to 100 B.C.
Aerial photos showcase Hohokam ruins in 1930
A new exhibit at Pueblo Grande Museum gives a unique perspective on ancient Hohokam ruins in the Valley as they existed more than 75 years ago, before rapid growth and development eclipsed them.
The new exhibit, "Flight Over Phoenix," chronicles a 1930 aerial photograph expedition that produced more than 600 aerial photos of ancient Hohokam canals and ruin sites in the Phoenix area. The exhibit is cosponsored by the federal Bureau of Reclamation's Phoenix-area Office.
The photos from the 1930 expedition were largely forgotten for decades in storage facilities in Washington, D.C., and have never before been seen in a large-scale public exhibit.
Note to museum: Put them all on the Web after the exhibition.