March 6th, 2025 3:45pm - Greece/Israel/Egypt

When: March 6th, 2025 3:45pm

Where: Greece/Israel/Egypt - via Arkansas

Who: Clay Beason

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Next up we are learning about Greece, Israel, and Egypt. 

Some interesting facts about Greece is that the students in Greece will start learning about the culture, the food, and the different languages. When you live in Greece you start learning about the different Greek gods. In Greece they have this thing called a Gyro, which is like pita bread with different types of meat on it. They even put french fries on it and some kind of greek yogurt. Most people in Greece speak English mostly. 

A historical landmark in Greece is The Parthenon from ancient Greece which sits on a hill called the Acropolis. Back in the old ages the athens believed that they didn't need democracy so the people fought in battle so they wouldn't have a democracy. As when they were trying to name the city of Athens, normally they would fight to see who would name Athens but instead they did a competition and so they named Athens after Athena. 

An interesting fact about the Greek is they will feed you a lot of food and welcome you into their home. The most well known mountain in Greece is known for Greek gods living there. Greece is very diverse. Most people think of beaches when they think of Greece but it is actually made up of 80% mountains. There is a president in Greece and a prime minister. The prime minister is more like the president, and the president is more like the vice president. When you go to the hospital in Greece you do not have to pay for your treatment. There are over 250 days of sun. In the summer, it is hot but not humid so you will not sweat as much. A lot of seafood is being consumed. There are bears in Greece but you rarely see them.

When he was traveling for classes he said he was supposed to go to Egypt around 12 times but instead went only once. The reason for this is because of the many possibilities of terrorist attacks that Egypt was being threatened with. When he went to visit he was near the pyramids which were made as monuments to house the tombs of Pharaohs. 

When you meet a person in Israel their name means something. The biggest city in Israel is Jerusalem. Israel is known as a very small country. So if you were to put Israel into Arkansas, you would be able to fit about 6 Israels into Arkansas. Jerusalem is known for where God had been. The temples in Jerusalem are very special to the people that live there because Jesus used to go to the temples and pray there to God.

 

March 6th, 2025 12:00pm - Israel/Sudan/Cyprus - Archaeology

When: March 6th, 2025 12:00pm

Where: Israel/Sudan/Cyprus - Archaeology

Who: Scott Huff

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Hi guys, welcome back to our blog! Today we talked to an archeologist that has lived in 3 different places! That's right he’s lived in Israel, Sudan, and Egypt. We are currently observing some things he's explored. He is showing the dirt, burnt straw, and unburnt straw from an ancient stable. These different layers of dirt show the history of civilization and how people survived back then.

Cyprus was built in the Iron Age. It was found only 2 feet under the ground. The things included marble, statues, and messages that are only half decipherable.

In Sudan he is unable to revisit due to the government collapsing and making it dangerous to travel to and study. There are a series of ancient Egyptian pyramids. Near these pyramids they found ancient Egyptian things to be preserved. The measured and mapped out all of it and the graph is the only record of all of it.

In Israel there is the Formation of Tel which is where everyone built a top of, making giant mounds that are found in Palestine and Israel. In these mounds there are metal making areas, homes, and other places and things they used to live and survive.

There's the “uh-oh house” which got its name from seeming to go on forever to the point where it was becoming problematic because they couldn't keep researching that house and they needed it to stop.

In the late bronze period they would find foot imprints in the stone. Archaeologists will be able to find all sorts of stuff like valuables you carried every day, plates, bones, even what you ate. At least if it's meat. They also found seeds, photos, and ancient artifacts so if your phone lasts long enough that could be examined in the future.

If you are interested in history, biology, photography, computer science, then archeology might be for you to explore as a potential career path. It’s a very captivating job that helps you understand the past of humans. The best part is that there's always something new to discover! Archaeology is an amazing job and it gives you lots of new experiences and many opportunities to learn about the world and its past. Archaeology helps and allows you to view statues, buildings, and so much more in a new way.

In archeology you get to see how people made stuff back in the day, how people behaved back then and help resolve real world problems. For if we had thrown away the Mona Lisa or similar paintings we would never be able to learn what and how art worked back in the day.

Archeology is an art style of discovering history and will impact our future by learning about our past.

4:30PM - Israel, Sudan, & Cyprus (Archaeology) via Nashville, Tennessee, USA

When: March 7th @ 4:30PM

Where: Israel, Sudan, & Cyprus (Archaeology)

Who: Scott Huff - Archaeologist

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Israel, Sudan, Cyprus

     Archaeological

Time in Cyprus, Sudan, and Israel: 12:30am on Friday, March 8th

Archaeology comes from Greek, it means: A story of the past. Material culture. 

Digging gets to an ancient place. Looking for items that they ate with or what they used to sit on, finding the remains of what they ate, carvings of feet, and pottery (found in many pieces)

Sudan:

Nuri a place where a king live long time ago 

Expedition Unknown on Discovery Channel

A tel is a formation of the the bottom to years ago to now

Israel:

Tel burna a Tel is a place where people live in over 1,000 years ago

Drones help with archaeological digs, load into computer models

Archaeology is about telling the past, create timelines and maps

Drawings of ancient eastern temples in ancient Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, only possible through archaeology

Biblical drawings, made possible through archaeology

Oldest artifact he’s found: late Bronze age (13th century B.C., 1200s), pottery found from 1250 B.C. in Israel

Sample pottery (milk bowl): dipped in white paint, painted with brown in an intricate pattern, made in Cyprus, Canaanites loved the pottery (like fine China, good dinnerware)

Favorite piece: rhinestone, carved hole in the middle, it was dropped on the ground, it was being used for grinding a red powder used for dye, powder was saved in the piece and analyzed, 11th century B.C.

Hottest: 124º F

If you want quality replica artifacts, go to Etsy

Archaeologists are typically forgotten, but their pieces/finds are remembered

Place with most artifacts: Tel Beth-Shemesh, found lots of amulets, amulet: portrayal of one of the rulers->a queen representing herself with royal art to represent her royal status

9:00 PM - Cypress, Israel, & Sudan - Archaeologist via Nashville, Tennessee, USA

 When: March 9th @9:00 PM

Where: Cypress, Israel, & Sudan - Archaeologist via Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Who: Scott Huff - Archaeologist

What is an archaeologist? “People who deal with things people left behind.” Writings carved into stone, ancient buildings, pyramids, etc. They dig in the dirt in foreign countries searching for answers to their questions they must present to the government, and they’re only allowed to dig where it seems as though people had lived. They’re never on the site for more than a month. Anything found in a month takes about a year to publish. They have to finish one project prior to starting another.

This specific archaeologist has had about 12 visits to Israel finding buildings, Canaanite temples, and much more. On his first trip to Israel, the search team had found shards of ancient pottery from 3,000 years ago. On a recent trip, his search team found four rooms, two entry ways, and a hallway of a Canaanite temple. People used to even live in “tells”, and when they wanted to build a new building, they would just build on top of it. EVERYONE LIVED IN ISRAEL.

In Sudan, ancient pharaohs were found. Search teams have to dig under pyramids due to the Nile River. Some pyramids have underwater rooms and halls. Bones and ceramics are often found. The bones help archaeologists estimate what people’s diets were back then and what most people ate. Experts would come in to examine the ceramics. The experts would identify where the ceramics originated from and what their purpose was. Pottery found in Sudan was made for holding expensive items: perfume, oils.

People will use the cities after their original purpose. Some ancient cities were covered and are merely hills now. When wanting to build something new, they wouldn’t tear it down, but they would smooth out the surface and build over it. This created multiple layers of buildings underground. Even digging has a different purpose. Archaeologists used to dig until, “they found something shiny.” Now, archaeologists dig for answers. Artifacts are even deemed valuable depending on what questions the artifacts answer. The most valuable discovery being Hittites. It’s an ancient civilization found in present day Turkey, and they developed the earliest indo-european language.