Tools of the Trades By Maxine Carter-Lome Eli Whitney is credited as saying “We can’t make anything until we make tools.” That’s the take-away from this month’s issue. Every profession has its tools of the trade, and those tools have…
Ken’s Korner: Royal French hairpin is found — in a toilet – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – September 2012 Archaeologists digging at the Fontainebleau Palace, a royal residence just outside Paris, have made a most unusual find: a…
Ken’s Korner: Dog teeth-studded ancient purse found – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – September 2012 Excavators working near Leipzig, Germany have unearthed more than 100 dogs’ teeth, all arranged together in a grave dating to between 2,500 and…
Ken’s Korner: Flat-faced figures were built on Keros, but why? – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – May 2006 Archaeologists are planning a major dig on the Greek island of Keros in an attempt to explain just why the…
Ken’s Korner: Dodo fossils found on Indian Ocean isle – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – April 2006 Collectors of fossils, dinosaur bones and the like will be interested to learn a mass grave of dodo birds — the…
Ken’s Korner: Mural dates Mayas to about 100 B.C. – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2006 Archaeologists digging at a pyramid site called San Bartolo in Guatemala have found a mural that dates to around 100 B.C. That’s about…
Ken’s Korner: Find just may be the oldest known church – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – February 2006 Archaeologists working at a site inside a maximum-security prison in Israel have unearthed what may be the oldest church ever discovered. The…
Ken’s Korner: Skeletal remains are probably Copernicus’ – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2006 Archaeologists believe they have found the skeletal remains of Copernicus, the 16th-century cleric who first postulated that the Earth revolves around the sun. Prior to that, it…
Ken’s Korner: Horde of coins found at Emperor Qin’s tomb – The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles – January 2006 Archaeologists using a magnetic scan have determined that the tomb of China’s first emperor contains a large number of coins, most of them probably…
