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archaeology

[ahr-kee-ol-uh-jee] / ˌɑr kiˈɒl ə dʒi /
NOUN
study of the physical remains of ancient cultures or eras
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Julian Hirsch, 28, who is finishing a Ph.D. in archaeology at Hebrew University, made aliyah this year because his fieldwork doesn’t exist anywhere else at comparable scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

"The value in this project is practically unquantifiable," said Berkeley archaeology graduate student Leah Packard-Grams, who consulted on the project as a papyrologist.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Israel feels responsible to look after the archaeology, the artifacts, the history of this land," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

It may also lead to practical applications beyond archaeology.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

Perhaps as a result, the most persuasive scientific critiques on Clovis initially came from fields that overlapped archaeology, but were mainly outside of it: linguistics, molecular biology, and geology.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann



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