Archaeology Magazine

The Chelsea Art Museum said on Monday it is shutting its doors to the public for the rest of the month, amid efforts by the founder and director to avoid foreclosure on the museum’s home.

A company controlled by Dorothea Keeser that owns the West 22nd Street building filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, a move that forestalls the possibility of foreclosure proceedings.

A lawyer for Ms. Keeser, Thomas Bark, said the museum’s shutdown is temporary. “The museum and its sponsors are in discussions with various financial parties to restructure its finances in connection with the bankruptcy filing,” he wrote via email to The Wall Street Journal. Read more…

Archaeologists have discovered a large group of ancient stone statues at the worship site of Guizai Mountain near Hunan province.

According to People’s Daily Online, these statues are a lot more in number and a lot older than the Qin Terracotta Warriors found in the depths of the Nanling Mountains located in Dao County of Yongzhou City. Read more…

A linguistic mystery has arisen surrounding symbol-inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the formation of the country itself.

The stones are believed to have been carved by members of an ancient people known as the Picts, who thrived in what is now Scotland from the 4th to the 9th Centuries.

These symbols, researchers say, are probably “words” rather than images.

But their conclusions have raised criticism from some linguists. Read more…

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Archeologists have stumbled upon two tobacco tins, which they say were used by the Lawrence of Arabia’s army during the Great Arab Revolt.

The tins were discovered during excavations at the Arab army site in Wuheida in southern Jordan, the Telegraph reported. Read more…

The joint US-Azerbaijani archaeological expedition has revealed new findings in Nakhchivan.

The ceramic samples of the Khojaly-Gedabey culture were found during the archeological digs in the ancient settlement Oglangala in the Sharur region of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. Read more…

MANILA — Archaeologists have found a foot bone that could prove the Philippines was first settled by humans 67,000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought, the National Museum said Tuesday. Read more…

JINAN, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — A dinosaur museum in east China’s Shandong Province has been confirmed by Guinness World Records as the largest of its kind in the world, a museum official said Monday. Read more…

The World Heritage Committee meeting in Brasilia has inscribed sites in Saudi Arabia, Australia, India, Islamic Republic of Iran and, for the first time, a site in the Marshall Islands, as well as the Republic of Korea on the UNESCO World Heritage List.  

The latest sites inscribed include (in order of inscription):

At Turaif District in ad-Dir’iyah (Saudi Arabia) Read more…