Time travel is possible, just ask an archaeologist. Imagine digging deep into the mysteries of the past, finding out the dining habits of ancient Romans in Pompeii, or hiking into caves in Spain or France to view prehistoric man’s view of the world, or exploring the lifestyles and trading habits of early European settlers and Native Americans at an 18th-century fort in Virginia, or uncoverin...
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The Gals are a hoot!
Speaking from personal experience of course.
I have been lusting after the chance to take one of their trips for years. With such trips as Erin Go Braghless, the ultimate Irish Music Experience and Queens of the Nile Spices, Sphinx's and Shopping. Oh My! How can anyone resist escaping from the dreaded Martha Stewart Disease?
With over 25 tours a year, all personally pl...
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The opera season in Verona draws 500,000 visitors a year to this fabled city where Shakespeare set his immortal love story, Romeo and Juliet. Each night during the season, which runs through Sept. 3, 15,000 opera-lovers gather under the stars to hear the voices of such greats as Renata Tebaldi, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.The line-up for 2000's summer season includes:Aida, an opera by Antoni...
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Ancient Etruscans and Romans Meet Again at UPenn’s Museum
If only some Italian scribe 2,500 years ago had chiseled a stone slab bearing side-by-side versions of the same message in Etruscan and Latin. He would have given us another Rosetta Stone, and one just as useful.
For the Etruscans, the often shadowy people who preceded the Romans as central Italy’s grea...
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The Great Forest Returns In the East's Largest Park
The legend has it that before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, a squirrel setting out from the Atlantic shore could make his way to the Mississippi River, 800 miles west, jumping from tree to tree without once setting foot on the ground.
That story describes as well as any the breadth and majesty of the great deciduous forest that once cloaked...
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Touch The Past - Join A Dig
Written By Marian Clark Posted on Science
It is Saturday, 6 a.m., the early cool of the day still lingers. You throw your day pack, boots and lunch into the car. The drive through the countryside inspires as you think about what lies ahead. Lies under the ground, that is!You arrive at the archaeological site and join the others, a group of professionals, students and volunteers. They are all there for the same reason. Or are they?
Why do we get up early on a Saturday or spend our annual vacation at an archaeological dig getting very dirty, sunburned and even covered with mosquito bites?...
As many of you may realize, I was in Iran last June with a group from UCLA. Upon my return, many people expressed curiosity about the country and its people – thus, this letter. Here are my impressions of today’s Iran.The biggest surprise for me was the friendliness, warmth and curiosity of the people towards us. Every day people would come up to us without hesitation and ask where we were from. When we said, “America,” the response was...
The sweet synchronicity of “Dea Goes to Deya” (the name of an archeological research site on Mallorca) was but a small marker of my joy in being back in the field after a 13-year absence and endless, vicarious Earthwatching.
We dug in a stony field in Valdemossa, with permission of the finca owner to cut some of his ancient olive trees. We unearthed...
When the explorer Howard Carter finally dug his way into the inner chamber of King Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1923, he was prepared for the worst. All of the previously discovered tombs of ancient Egyptian monarchs had been looted. Carter feared he would suffer the same disappointment.As he pushed his head into the royal burial chamber and illuminated it with a torch, his colleagues...
Hopi tribal shamans of the Snake and Antelope clans conduct their annual Snake (Rain) Dance at the Hopi Mesas, Arizona. A hiker walks a remote, precipitous trail in what is now Escalante Canyons National Monument, Utah. In the wilderness of San Rafael Swell, Utah, a bird drinks from a sandstone water basin hidden amongst a maze of slick-rock crags.
Co-created by nature and the human imagination, the decorated caves at Pech-Merle in France can overwhelm the senses – and emotions. Pech Merle (pech = hillock in the local dialect) is a truly magnificent labyrinth of caves with stonelike formations, colorful paintings, finger drawings and splendid engravings done by Paleolithic humans. In the space of about one kilometer, you see a...
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The Gals are a hoot!
Speaking from personal experience of course.
I have been lusting after the chance to take one of their trips for years. With such trips as Erin Go Braghless, the ultimate Irish Music Experience and Queens of the Nile Spices, Sphinx's and Shopping. Oh My! How can anyone resist escaping from the dreaded Martha Stewart Disease?
With over 25 tours a year, all personally pl...
Touch The Past - Join A Dig