The partially excavated Tower of Jericho is, for its age, a peculiar structure. It was discovered by Kathleen Kenyon over her 1950s digs at the Jericho site. Following her own devising of pre-ceramic or pre-pottery phases, she dated the structure to around 8000 BCE. The cylindrical tower stands over 8 metres high and has been […]
Month: June 2023
The Gilgamesh Image
Gilgamesh was supposedly a king of Uruk (located in present-day Iraq) who lived c.2100 BCE. As the central character in the Gilgamesh Epic he became a big noise in the ancient world. Given the detail of his extraordinary feats and fantastic content of his epic journey, however, some have been left wondering how Gilgamesh could […]
Journal of Skyscape Archaeology paper
I’m delighted that my paper, ‘Chips off the Block: Twin Symbolism in the Emergence of Neolithic Monuments and Cosmology’ will be published (quite soon) in the Journal of Skyscape Archaeology (JSA). It was peer reviewed for a while and accepted last year. JSA, which looks at the relevance of the sky in the interpretation of […]