Archaeology

Material and spiritual barriers

May 10, 2024

Sculpture of fish god from Lepenski Vir, likely to have been part of the people’s spiritual responses to flooding. Credit: Mickey Mystique/Wikimedia Commons In a beautiful article from 2019, Patrick Nunn gives a couple of examples for protection architecture that...

The cities in the River Tigris

Jun 3, 2022

The Mosul Dam is used to regulate the water supply in the draught prone regions of Irak. If there is a shortage of water, the water line in the dam resservoire is lowered which has repeatedly brought archeological findings to light. In 2010 a palace appeared above the...