When thinking of the word “outlet,” multiple associations come to mind. Most of us think of an outlet as something that we do to express ourselves in a creative way, a break from day-to-day routines that can often get tedious. Sometimes, we can use these outlets as ways to bring attention to or to celebrate the things we love, which is the case for ...
The Euphrat Museum of Art is getting a jump on next year’s Silicon Valley Reads with the opening of an in-person exhibition that dovetails with that event’s theme of “The Power of Kindness, Resilience, and Hope.” The museum at De Anza College is set to open “common ground” to the public on Saturdays starting Dec. 18. The artwork in “common ground,” which can also ...
ARTHUR — As he weaved past the stuffed animals, designer handbags and expensive paintings in his art gallery in downtown Arthur, Jerry Winters posed a question.“Do you want me to play something for you?” he asked.Dressed in a navy blue blazer, pink shirt, orange-and-blue plaid pants and a gold paisley tie with a matching pocket square, his style directly contrasts with the small town ...
Milly Hardwick, a 13-year old in England, found a treasure trove of Bronze Age artifacts on the countryside using a metal detector, the New York Times reports. She had been out with her grandfather and father, who were each equipped with their own detector, scanning the fields when Milly’s detector started to give off a high-pitched sound. Her father immediately began digging and unearthed ...
Machu Picchu, the Inca palace tucked away in the mountains of Peru, may be a quarter-century older than previously thought. According to a new study published in Antiquity this month, a team of researchers used advanced radiocarbon dating to determine that the site was in use from 1420 to 1530 C.E. Using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) the team was able to date human remains ...
Now over 1,000 graphic representations, mostly attributed to the Upper Paleolithic era, have been described. It’s one of three sites that contains some of the oldest known cave art, dating back to more than 65,000 years ago. The red pigments researchers studied, located in a stalagmitic dome in the cave’s lower gallery, were analyzed and found to have been intentionally applied through splattering and ...
An electric company in England has uncovered a host of millennia-old objects dating to the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, and Saxon periods at a site near the city of Dorchester. Spanning 6,000 years of history, the artifacts were excavated as part of a project that lasted almost two years. The finds were announced last month by the London-based electric company National Grid, which partnered ...
Amateur archaeologist Hamish Fenton discovered depictions of deer dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age in a prehistoric burial tomb, the Historic Environment Scotland (HES) announced in a statement. This is the first time such carvings have been found in the country. The rock art, estimated to be around 4,000 or 5,000 years old, was found in Dunchraigaig Cairn in Kilmartin Glen on ...
