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Rakhigarhi or Rakhi Garhi is a village and an archaeological site in the Hisar District of the northern Indian state of Haryana, situated about 150 km northwest of Delhi.It is located in the Ghaggar River plain, [1] some 27 km from the seasonal Ghaggar river, and belonged to the Indus Valley civilisation, being part of the pre-Harappan (7000-3300 BCE), early Harappan (3300-2600 BCE), and the ...
The following is a list of the world's oldest surviving physical documents. Each entry is the most ancient of each language or civilization. For example, the Narmer Palette may be the most ancient from Egypt, but there are many other surviving written documents from Egypt later than the Narmer Palette but still more ancient than the Missal of Silos.
Near East Archaeological Society: 1958: 1 — 0739-0068: Near Eastern Archaeology: American Schools of Oriental Research: 1998: 4 — 2325-5404 (print) 1094-2076 (web) Norwegian Archaeological Review: Routledge: 1968: 2 — 0029-3652 (print) 1502-7678 (web) Old Kilkenny Review: Kilkenny Archaeological Society: 1948: 1 — 0332-0774: Ostraka ...
A number of research projects, [27] [28] working groups, [29] and other initiatives have explored how conservation can become a more environmentally sustainable profession. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] Sustainable conservation practices apply both to work within cultural institutions [ 29 ] (e.g. museums, art galleries, archives, libraries, research centres ...
The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR) is an international digital repository for the digital records of archaeological investigations. tDAR's use, development, and maintenance are governed by Digital Antiquity, an organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term preservation of irreplaceable archaeological data and to broadening the access ...
Since the advent of "New Archaeology" in the 1960s, the use of scientific techniques in archaeology has grown in importance. [2] This trend is directly reflected in the increasing application of the scientific method to post-excavation analysis. [ 3 ]
Microplastics have been found in historic soil samples for the first time, according to a new study, potentially upending the way archaeological remains are preserved. Archaeologists are now ...
Many documents that are produced today, such as personal letters, pictures, contracts, newspapers, and medical records, would be considered valuable historical documents in the future. However most of these will be lost in the future since they are either printed on ordinary paper which has a limited lifespan, or even stored in digital formats ...