National Geographic History - 03.2019 - 04.2019

not only for revealing how people lived in its warren of neat, tidy, plastered houses, but also for its longevity, as the easter ...

SEATED WOMAN JAMES MELLAART FOUND THIS CIRCA 6000 B.C. CLAY FIGURE AT ÇATALHÖYÜK. MUSEUM OF ANATOLIAN CIVILIZATIONS, ANKARA, TUR ...

TOP: VINCENT J. MUSI/ALAMY/ACI. BOTTOM: JASON QUINLAN/ÇATALHÖYÜK RESEARCH PROJECT LIMESTONE WOMAN SCULPTED BETWEEN 6300 AND 6000 ...

22 MARCH/APRIL 2019 that infants and newborns were buried in this part of the home. Benches or platforms separated the “clean” p ...

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 23 DAVID TIPLING PHOTO LIBRARY/ALAMY/ACI RAISING THE DEAD O ne of the most striking ancient wall pai ...

BULLISH BUILDINGS A typical home at Çatalhöyük (right), consisted of a main room, fitted with benches and platforms, ovens (the ...

WILD AT HEART Some murals at Çatalhöyük reveal the relationship between wild animals and people. In one dynamic painting 1 , ani ...

ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE Excavated between 1895 and 1897, the amphitheater of Delphi sits up the hill from the Temple of Apollo. ...

DELPHI Hidden for centuries beneath a Greek hillside, the ruins of Delphi emerged when a team of 19th-century archaeologists set ...

G reek myth holds that the thunder god Zeus once dispatched two ea- gles flying in opposite directions across the sky. Where the ...

A MUSEUM opens adjacent to the dig site in Delphi to protect, house, and exhibit artifacts from the site, which span more than a ...

Between 391 and 392 Emperor Theodosius I banned pagan practices and closed Greek tem- ples, including those at Delphi. With its ...

A MOTLEY ARRAY of buildings, monuments, and offerings stretch across terraces at Delphi, con- nected by pathways. The main entra ...

CAPTURING THE MOMENT Homolle’s team took this photograph on May 30, 1893, when the statue of Kleobis (above) first emerged, larg ...

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rocks from the mountain, destroying the vil- lage and killing 30 people. Following the disaster, a commission set about searchin ...

EMERGING FROM THE EARTH On May 28, 1894, the statue of Biton was discovered buried just 30 feet away from his counterpart, the s ...

n t p u o t p s 1 t n f r y e o t T n w t Beginnings of the Big Dig Founded in 1846, the French School at Athens was in close co ...

MARIE MAUZY/SCALA, FLORENCE HOLDING THE REINS The bronze statue of the Charioteer was cast in four pieces that were then assembl ...

reports that documented their progress. These innovative practices soon became standard for archaeology. When the dig came to an ...