Current World Archaeology 95

'- Before Nasca? Seeking the forerunners of the famous lines
- Egyptian shipbuilding: secrets from a submerged city
- Game of empires: salvage survey in the Göksu valley
- Girsu, Iraq: home of the thunderbird
- Turks and Caicos Islands: the perils of chasing paradise
- New Zealand: in Cook’s wake
- Algeria: touring magnificent Roman ruins

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Current World Archaeology 95

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Cover Date: Jun / Jul 2019 | Volume 8 Issue Volume 8 Issue 11

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Post 1 image0 73 scaledThe Palpa figures: were these images created before the Nasca lines?Survey near the town of Palpa, Peru, has revealed a wealth of geoglyphs that appear to be older than their celebrated neighbours at Nasca. Luis…
Above Egyptian boatbuilding. Here, the keel is being trimmed with an adze, as shown in a 3rd millennium BC depiction in the Tomb of Ti at Saqqara. Traditionally, the study of Egyptian boats has been heavily dependent on such images.Ship 17: a wreck in the NileThe emporium of Thonis-Heracleion lay at the westernmost entrance to the Nile. When this city sank into the Mediterranean, it created an extraordinary underwater repository…