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Plundering the Sacred

German police recover thousands of artworks looted from Cyprus’s churches
By Gabrielle DeFord
058 One of last year’s most important archaeological discoveries occurred not in the field but in some apartments in Germany. And it was not made by archaeologists but by police after an eight-month sting operation. Last fall, Munich police...
Archaeology Odyssey, Summer 1998

The Image Destroyers

Only non-sacred images were destroyed in eighth-century Palestine
By Robert Schick
040 A curious episode in the history of iconoclasm—the destruction of sacred images—took place in eighth-century Palestine (present-day Israel and Jordan). The region’s Byzantine churches were often decorated with colorful mosaic pavements,...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 1999

Monasteries?

Heavens, no
By Veronica G. Kalas
028 029 When Cappadocians cut vast living spaces into the conelike formations of the local volcanic tufa around the turn of the first millennium, they created vestibules, halls, kitchens,...
Archaeology Odyssey, Fall 1998

The Cave-Dwellers

Cappadocia’s mysterious rock-cut architecture
By Robert Ousterhout
022 023 According to Leo the Deacon, a tenth-century Byzantine historian, the inhabitants of the Anatolian province of Cappadocia were troglodytes: “They went underground in holes, clefts, and...
Archaeology Odyssey, Fall 1998

When Crusader Kings Ruled Jerusalem

By Jack Meinhardt
020 It was one of the most romantic, chaotic, cruel, passionate, bizarre and dramatic episodes in history. In the 12th and 13th centuries A.D., a continual stream of European armies, mustered mostly in present-day France and Germany, marched out...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

Polyglot Antioch

Will archaeologists ever find the city described in the literary sources?
By Florent Heintz
047 Antioch-on-the-Orontes was one of the four great cities of the Greco-Roman-Byzantine world. Although almost unknown today, it once rivaled Alexandria, Rome and Constantinople. Ancient writers described it as a breathtakingly beautiful city...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2000

The Holiest Ground in the World

How the crusaders transformed Jerusalem’s Temple Mount
By Warren T. Woodfin
027 After defeating the army of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem at the Horns of Hattin, west of the sea of Galilee, in 1187, the Egyptian sultan Saladin marched unopposed into Jerusalem. European Crusaders, mostly from the region of present-day...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

The Next Best Thing to Being There

054 Can’t tell a mattock head from a plumb bob? After a few weeks volunteering on a dig, you’ll be a lot cannier about the tools of the archaeology trade—and having fun, too. Archaeology Odyssey’s fourth annual digs list presents you with...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2003

Digs 2004

Pick up a Spade & Go for the Gold!
049 As the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens approach, people from Kalamazoo to Katmandu are refocusing on the ancient world as never before. Images of the Parthenon and Mycenaean masks appear in print ads, movies are set in ancient Rome and...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2004

Philadelphia of the Decapolis

By Alastair Northedge
021 In the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283–246 B.C.), Rabbath Ammon was renamed Philadelphia. Despite the name change, the city’s inhabitants remained largely Semitic and probably were never extensively Hellenized. When Arab Muslims...
Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2002

A Subterranean Odyssey

052 Do you detest sparkling sunlight and fresh air? Would it be too onerous to visit beautiful, exotic lands? Would it bore you to tears to travel through time or touch a piece of history? If the answer to any (or all) of these questions is no,...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2001

Archaeology Odyssey’s 10 Most Endangered Sites

014 Any choice of the “10 Most Endangered Sites” is, at most, a kind of informed arbitrariness. Although all of the sites on our list are archaeologically important and in imminent danger, some have more value than others and some face greater...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2002

Digs 2006: Odyssey’s Annual Roundup

A tour of the (ancient) world we cover
Uncover ancient timbered dwellings in Roman Britain, sketch prehistoric rock art in Italy, piece together pottery sherds in Greece and Spain—with the help of our annual Digs issue, you can travel back into the ancient world. On pages 44–45 we provide a detailed chart listing excavation...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2006

Canceled!

A new traveling exhibition of 5,000 years of Georgian art is already ancient history
By Jack Meinhardt
042 043 Look at this crucifix,” said Gary Vikan, the director of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. He pushed a book across the table and pointed to a photograph of a silver sculpture of...
Archaeology Odyssey, January/February 2000

The Mystery of Theoderic’s Tomb Solved!

The sixth-century A.D. Roman-gothic king built it to last
By Harry Rand
047 One of the most mysterious buildings in all of Western architecture—the tomb of Theoderic (454–526 C.E.), king of the Ostrogoths (see the sidebar to this article)—glowers at the end of a tree-lined avenue in Ravenna, Italy. The tomb’s heavy,...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2003

Welcome to the World of Magic!

By C. Thomas McColloughBeth Glazier-McDonald
In 1992 and 1993, at Sepphoris (in Hebrew, Tzippori) in the lower Galilee, we uncovered two inscribed amulets designed to invoke magical powers.1 It’s not abracadabra; it’s WHYHAW and AWAAA. See if that will cure your fever! These two amulets, small silver and bronze scrolls, open a fascinating...
Archaeology Odyssey, Summer 1998

When People Lived at Petra

By Joseph J. Basile
015 It seems no work of Man’s creative hand, By labor wrought as wavering fancy planned; But from the rock as if by magic grown, Eternal, silent, beautiful, alone! Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine, Where erst Athena her rites divine;...
Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2000

Colossal Enigmas

The ancient stone temples of Baalbek
By Arthur Segal
050 051 It is unlikely that any archaeological work will be undertaken at Baalbek in the near future. This imposing site lies about 50 miles east-northeast of Beirut (ancient Berytus), between...
Archaeology Odyssey, September/October 2000

Death in Louisville, Roman Style

By Linda Maria Gigante
040 041 A fascinating episode in the history of Roman archaeology in America took place in Kentucky in the early years of the last century. In 1911 Louisville businessman and community leader...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2005

Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes

The thousands of individual burials, the several mass burials and the animal burials all demonstrate that these were sacrificial offerings to the gods.
By Lawrence E. StagerJoseph A. Greene
029 The evidence that Phoenicians ritually sacrificed their children comes from four sources. Classical authors and biblical prophets charge the Phoenicians with the practice. Stelae associated with burial urns found at Carthage bear decorations...
Archaeology Odyssey, November/December 2000

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