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Egyptian culture

Egyptian Lantern Slides — Places, Brooklyn Museum’s photostream, Flickr, public domain — from the pyramids of Gizah to the temple of Edfu. In 1849, the Philadelphia daguerreotypists William and Frederick Langenheim introduced the lantern slide: a transparent image on glass that could … Continue reading

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definition of an archaeologist

If you’ve never met an archaeologist before and your just stumbling, then let us explain. Get one archaeologist by him or herself and they’ll happily talk archaeology all day. They’ll tell you how much they enjoy their job, how they … Continue reading

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impressions

Some impressions from a roman vicus in France. Click on the pictures for a slighty higher resolution. Enjoy :-)

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sun is shining

Two opposed cuts along a roman wall to get an impression of the basement — eight hours work at temperatures as high as 30°C. On the second picture you can see two correspondent walls — at first sight. But doing a cut … Continue reading

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ancient rubbish

Here you can see many huge and foremost complete roman bricks. Usually we get lots of fragments in construction waste pits — romans didn’t waste complete or reusable material. So maybe we see here the remains of a former portico, the … Continue reading

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ancient remains

What we see here are the remains of a roman latrine, the original wall of a roman basement, leftovers of a hypocaustum and last not least the hint of a wall together with some huge fragment of mortar. What you don’t see: lots of … Continue reading

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paw of a dog

There you can see the fragment of a roman brick, nothing special but usually we’re looking for some seal1. But in that case we’ve found the mark of a paw. Some dog couldn’t resist to walk over the recent brick about 100 A.D. … Continue reading

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addendum

Those are the missing picturs to raiders of the lost wall — click on the pictures for higher resolution. Enjoy :-)

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raiders of the lost wall

Nothing much to say about the past week: we did some cuts to follow a former building phase, en detail this means we’ve moved a lot of mud, found less to none relevant to date the building phases1, but in the end … Continue reading

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long weekend

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