Excavation

The Blood Pit Kate Ellis is a crime fiction writer known for her ability to incorporate medieval history and archaeology in her crime and mystery novels. The historical facts used to illustrate Kate’s novels enrich their plots providing readers not only with the excitement of solving mysteries, but also with interesting facts about the medieval times. The Wesley Peterson series is an example of her mystery and history blend. It is an exciting series of eighteen crime novels in which she follows…

property that needs the use of tools and skills that exceed those normally reserved for fire fighters, medical emergency, and rescue. These calls can include rope rescue, swiftwater rescue, confined space rescue, ski rescue, cave rescue, trench/excavation rescue, building collapse rescue, and much more. Alright now let’s move on to the last call I will be talking about Hazardous Medical Spill. A hazardous Medical Spill is very dangerous it is when any substance or agent (biological, chemical,…

The most impressive archaeological find in Campania, was Pompeii . It was a archaeological preserved city due to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius, which preserved both the inhabitants and their city. Here archaeological evidence is abundant. This evidence tells its own story about the city and in turn reveals the Roman culture and influences were present. The Romans didn’t arrive until 80BC, and at this time Sulla proceeded to colonize Pompeii . Tension between the locals and the colonist grew and…

In Tutankhamun’s tomb, the artifacts were able to depict the lifestyle of kings in ancient Egypt. In his tomb, discoverers found many artifacts dating to over 3,000 years ago. The greatest treasure that laid inside the room, was the coffin of Tutankhamun. With a room untouched for thousands of years, scientists were able to study these artifacts to learn a lot of information especially about the lifestyle of kings in ancient Egypt. For historians, the life of Ancient Egypt during the New…

1.1 Introduction to Landslide A landslide is a geological phenomenon, which includes a wide range of ground movements, such as deep or shallow failure slopes and rock falls. See figure 1.1. 1.1.1 Factors influence Landslides Landslides occur when the stability of the slope turns from the stable state to unstable state. Most of the Landslides usually cause depend on two main factors: (i) Natural Factors and (ii) Anthropogenic Factors. (USSG, 2004) (i) Natural Factors (a) Geological…

rising "into thin air, strong within and without" with a "stalwart house...glittering with beauty in every part"Mottes were made out of earth and flattened on top, and it can be very hard to determine whether a mound is artificial or natural without excavation. Some were also built over older artificial structures, such as bronze age The size of mottes varied considerably, with these mounds being 3 metres to 30 metres in height (10 feet to 100 feet), and from 30 metres to 90 metres in diameter…

This is all shown by the physical evidence uncovered along the Nile Valley and nearby oases. These excavations were carried out by committed Egyptologists. Many of the findings revealed by these meticulous researchers can be categorized by their differing functions. Papyri consists of astrological/religious writings. There were coffin with texts of the Middle Kingdom and the various religious books of the New Kingdom Some individual dates found in other documents might be relevant to this…

takes the stuffiness and statistics out of the equation and gives us a look at the community at Qumran with fresh eyes. In her description of how archaeologists actually work, it was such a shame to learn how much information is lost in the actual excavation process. It was also interesting to note the different methods used to date their findings. Of note was her reluctance to pigeonhole the Qumran site as either a sectarian settlement or a villa/fortress.…

forum at the intersection of the decumanus maximus and the cardo maximus. Hence, a centrally located forum, with open space that ran northward from the Maison Carrée is proof that temple was central to the town of Nimes. Speculations from various excavations around Maison Carrée suggest that the temple served as an elegant axial temple for the forum. The temple is said to have had porticoes on the side that led all the way to the back of it to a site which could have been a colonnaded public…

An example of a negative externality consumption; would be the usage of cell phones in theaters and even plays. People pay money to go into a large dark room, where they will sit down and enjoy a plot. Yet, the moment of suspense and adrenaline one feels when the plot thickens, gets ruined by the constant *Bing* *tweet tweet* and even worse, the people who have inappropriate music as their ring tones. You go in expecting a good time, only to have it ruined by someone else who should have turned…