Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry plateau about 1.5 km (1 mi) from the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz of Kalya. The Hellenistic period settlement was constructed during the reign of John Hyrcanus, 134–104 BCE or somewhat later, and was occupied most of the time until it was destroyed by the Romans in 68 CE or shortly after. It is best known as the settlement nearest to the Qumran Caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were hidden, caves in the sheer desert cliffs and beneath, in the marl terrace. The principal excavations at Qumran were conducted by Roland de Vaux in the 1950s, though several later unearthings at the site have since been carried out.

Dead Sea Qumran

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This building at Skara Brae, Sandwick, Orkney dates from the late Neolithic (c.2900-2400 cal BC) and was the home to stone age farmers . This structure, known as House 1, was discovered after a storm in 1850.  The local laird William Watt excavated this building in the 1850s and1860s discovering a wealth of stone and bone tools.  

Following erosion in the 1920s a defensive sea wall was constructed and Prof. Vere Gordon Childe undertook further excavations.

The walls of this building survive over two metres high and the stone furniture remains in place.   A hearh lies at the centre of the building and a large 'dresser' faces the one metre high door.  The boxes around the sides of the room are bed compartments, which would have been lined with animal skins.  The small stone boxes were used for storage.

Neolithic House, Skara Brae, Orkney

***Homo sapiens***

Location: Upper Cave, Zhoukoudian, China.

Age: 10,000-20,000 years B.P.

Material: plaster cast.

Dimensions: length, 218 mm; width, 145 mm; height, 150 mm.

Notes: RLA catalog no. 1979rp44 (cast).  "Old Man" skull.  Discovered in 1933-1934 during excavations in the Upper Cave (also known as Shandingdong) at Zhoujoudian by Bei Wenzhong under the direction of Franz Weidenreich.  Lost during the Japanese occupation in 1941.  Cast made by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.  From the teaching collection of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Model by Jordyn Gray.

Homo sapiens (Upper Cave, Zhoukoudian)(1979rp44)

Aphrodite, ca 360-340 BC J.-C., Cypriot production, Provenance of Amathonte (Cyprus), excavations of Ed. Paridant, Limestone painted. Musée du Cinquantenaire (Brussels, Belgium). Made with ReMake and ReCap Pro from Autodesk.

This feminine figure, with many jewels, holds a flower in her right hand and a bird, dove or pigeon, in her left hand. These motifs bring her closer to the bearers of offering, like the neighboring sculpture. The turreted crown, a motif from the Middle East, covered with a veil, however, designates it as a deity, Aphrodite, cult very developed on the island of Cyprus.

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Aphrodite

Archaeological excavations Roman Aldborough May 2019. Photogrammetric model generated using Agisoft Metashape Pro from over 200 photographs taken using a tripod mounted Sigma DP0 Quattro camera. This camera employs a Foveon Sensor which has exceptional colour rendering properties ideal for documenting the subtle colour variations frequently experienced in archaeological deposits.

Aldborough 2019

[**Museum Village Düppel**](https://bit.ly/3q58lnq) is a seasonal open-air museum. It presents visitors with a reconstruction of an approximately 800-year-old village. The site of this former settlement has now been reconstructed with residences, storehouses, workshops, fields and gardens.

1967 marked the start of archaeological excavations in southwest Berlin. They revealed evidence of building foundations and farmyards of a village from the period just before 1200. Thanks to experimental archaeology, it was possible to rebuild the medieval village on the settlement’s original site. The village has developed into a widely recognised centre for experimental archaeology.

Digitized by the [HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, Institute  DE:HIVE](https://bit.ly/3cG7bug). The project was a part of a yearly programme, organized by [digiS](https://bit.ly/37e5Eae) and is financed by the [Senate of Berlin](https://bit.ly/3q55b2L).

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Museum Village Düppel - House 6

This skull is a composite reconstruction of the *Homo erectus* specimen recovered from the cave of Zhoukoudian near Beijing, China. Peking Man is an East Asian subspecies of *Homo erectus* that evolved into modern Han Chinese. This fossil was discovered in 1923 during excavations in Zhoukoudian cave system outside of Beijing. This skull is dated to around 750000 years old and represents an important lineage of humans, helping modern scientists explain the range expansion of *Homo erectus* and the modern human populations of China. Along with the skull, researchers also found evidence of tool usage and fire construction, which supports the idea that *Homo erectus* was the first hominid to use tools.

Peking Man Skull

Bronze statue of a Dancing Faun  found in the excavations of  Pompei, Italy.
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Dancing Faun

Museum Village Düppel - House 12

Museum Village Düppel - House 11

Mont Orgueil (French for 'Mount Pride') is a castle in Jersey that overlooks the harbour of Gorey. It is also called Gorey Castle by English-speakers, and lé Vièr Châté (the Old Castle) by Jèrriais-speakers.The castle is first called 'Mont Orgeuil' in an ordinance issued by Pierre de Brézé, Lord of the Isles during the occupation by the French during the War of the Roses, in 1462.

The site had been fortified during the Iron Age, as excavations in the 1970s showed, the existence of an earth rampart at the top of the granite rock, that the castle now rests on. Other materials were also found at the site, such as arrowheads and pottery, which actually date from the Neolithic period (4000–2500 BC). 

+Info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Orgueil

Mont Orgueil | JERSEY

Full name: **Ner Tamid Lamp from the Great Synagogue in Oświęcim, Poland**

Known as Ner Tamid (Hebrew: "eternal light"), the lamp symbolises the presence of divine light and as such should be kept aflame in a synagogue at all times, regardless whether the temple is open. This tradition is a reminder of the everlasting menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem (also known as The First Temple).

The lamp on display was discovered, alongside other objects, during archeological excavations conducted in 2004 on the site once occupied by the [Great Synagogue in Oświęcim](https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/articles/673), before it was razed to the ground by the Nazis in November 1939.

**For more images and further information, visit:** https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2063

Inventory number: MŻ 9

Localisation of the physical object: Auschwitz Jewish Center, Oświęcim, Poland

**Digitalisation: Regional Digitalisation Lab, Małopolska Institute of Culture in Kraków, Poland; “Virtual Museums of Małopolska” project**

Ner Tamid Lamp

Museum Village Düppel - House 17

Museum Village Düppel - House 1 - Palisade

Museum Village Düppel - House 3

Museum Village Düppel - House 8

Museum Village Düppel - House 5

Museum Village Düppel - House 10

A sacrificial altar dating to the 3rd–4th centuries AD was discovered during excavations of the necropolis associated with the Belinskoe hillfort. In close proximity to the altar, a burial chamber with a short dromos was recorded, along with remnants of a ritual commemoration feast (trishna) and associated 4th‑century AD artefacts.

Altar. After excavations are finished

This relatively small rock is mostly decorated with carvings from the Copper & Bronze Ages.  Its surface is densely engraved with images of weapons, mainly daggers, in use in the Copper Age (3300-2200 BC) and the First Bronze Age (2200-1800 BC). 

Actual copper daggers, with a triangular blade & half-round pommel, like these have been discovered during archaeological excavations in the big Copper Age cemetery found in Remedello at the end of the nineteenth century.  

Other daggers show stretched and elongated blades, a type more common during the Bronze Age.  On the left, two fighting warriors have been date to within the late Bronze Age, about 1200-1000 BC.

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