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Friday, 8 March 2030
Archaeology
Archaeology
Archaeology is a branch of the science of history
The biggest achievements of Archaeology :
The biggest and greatest achievement of archaeology is
revealed to ancient civilizations and nations were unimaginable people in the
last centuries. Civilizations such as the Sumerians and Babylonians and their
blogs in a culture that more than five hundred thousand of baked clay tablet
written in cuneiform, a line which absorbed the culture of ancient nations in
the Middle for nearly three thousand years BC.
These panels have raised the curiosity of scientists in the
West, they kept to decipher and study have appeared as a result of thousands of
research, both at the level of scientific papers published in professional
journals or at the level of Masters and PhDs.
The science of archaeology
The science of archaeology
The science of
archaeology began about five hundred years ago when many people found it
profitable to dig up old marble statues and ornaments that had been made by the
ancient Greeks and Romans, and sell them to rich noblemen. Most of these were
found in Greece, Italy, and islands in the Mediterranean Sea, which had been
the centers of civilization for more than two thousand years. Men began to
study these artistic relics, and found that they could learn from them about
the ways of life of other men who had lived long ago. Because this is such an
interesting study, scientists became interested in man-made things from
prehistoric times, even if they were not beautiful pieces of art.
Then, by accident,
some farmers in Italy discovered that they were living on top of an ancient
Roman city that had been buried for more than sixteen hun-1 dred years. The
name of this city was Herculaneum. It and another city of ancient Rome, named
Pompeii, were built beside a great volcano named Vesuvius. In the year 79, an
eruption of Vesuvius poured out so much lava and dust that both Herculaneum and
Pompeii were buried. In the year 1719, archaeologists began to dig to uncover
them.
After more than
fifty years, they had uncovered two complete cities with fine houses, theaters,
streets, temples, and everything else that showed exactly how people had lived
in ancient Rome. At the end of that century, one of the greatest of all
archaeological discoveries was made in Egypt. This was the finding of the
Rosetta Stone, about which there is a separate article. The Rosetta Stone was a
sort of "billboard," used in the years before paper was made and when
men had to carve their writings on stones or on tablets of clay.
The Rosetta Stone
had the same words in two different languages. One language was Greek, which
the scientists already knew well. The other was ancient Egyptian, which they
did not know. From the Rosetta Stone they learned to read ancient Egyptian.
Ever since, archaeologists have been able to read whatever ancient Egyptian
writing they have dug up, and this has helped them to learn much about the
history of Egypt and the people who lived there thousands of years ago. The
Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799. Many other discoveries were made during
the next hundred years, but perhaps the most interesting was the Altamira
caves, in the mountains of northern Spain.
On the walls of
these caves are paintings of bulls and other animals that were hunted by
prehistoric men. These paintings were made by men who lived as much as twenty
thousand years ago, maybe even more, but they are so well done that many modern
artists can admire them as much for their beauty as for their age. From
paintings like these, archaeologists find out how men lived by hunting, and
other things about the culture of that age so long ago. Archaeology goes on
constantly. On every continent, and on islands separated from the continents,
such as Great Britain and Ireland, archaeologists have found traces of the men
who came many ages before usArticle Submission, our ancestors.
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