Egyptian Mortuary Temple reconstruction

  Reconstruction of a Mastaba            By Connor Carraway The ancient Egyptians were one of the most architecturally gifted people of the ancient world. Their most noticeable contributions being the…

White Temple Reconstructed

Reconstruction of the White Temple

Busy Hopper The White Temple is one of the few ziggurat structures that left enough remains to give a hint to what it could have looked like when it was…

Sculpture of a centaur fighting a man in high relief.

The Elgin Marbles debate

  Those Marbles Should Stay at The British Museum   Although many people in the world hold the opinion that those marbles should go to Athens, I’d like to defence…

The Elgin Marbles

Connor Carraway Morris 2 April, 2015 ARH 351 Lord Elgin’s decision to take historic antiquities from the Parthenon back to England has been a source for controversy ever since the…

Rough sculpture of a Ram head.

Inanna: Patron Deity of Uruk

The Ancient Near East was a region that could easily have been considered as the cradle of civilization. This was the place of the earliest forms of civilization, which could…

Stone inscribed with human figures and hieroglyphics.

Anubis: God of the Dead

Anubis Anubis is one of the most well known and iconic gods of ancient Egypt. Anubis is actually the Greek version of his name. Inpu or Anpu is what the…

Repatriation and the Ownership of Antiquity

Some countries believe that artifacts and major discoveries that originated in their own country belong to them regardless of who discovered it. These countries claim that the artifacts belong to…