Content

• Updated Hattusa
• Updated Tushpa
• Updated Medinet Habu
• Revised Violin Figurines
• Updated Cylinder Seal of Ishqi-Mari
• Updated Barton Cylinder
• Revised Sledge and Plough
• Revised Beveled-Rim Bowl
• Added Pottery Collection
• Added outline for the course The Three Orders
• Added Introduction for the course “The Three Orders”
• Added Preface to the course “The Three Orders”
• Revised Copper Ingot
• Added Silver Scrolls
• Fixed Baalbek event
• Published Onomastica to the course “The Three Orders”
• Added The Amman Citadel
• Revised Temple of Ishtar
• Revised Megiddo
• Revised Ninevite V Ware

Code

• Fixed a critical error that prevented collections from displaying.
• Fixed a problem where firewall rule blocked form submission.
• Created pottery cards for archiving pottery (a work in progress)
• Fixed a problem on the timeline with “learn more links” not displaying for uncategorized events.
• Fixed display order of timelines in dropdown menu so that ‘Ancient List’ is default
• Added ability to create table blocks with ACF repeater field
• Added very basic search bar

Content

• Revised Introduction and Conclusion to the Early Bronze course
• Revised “Frying Pan”
• Revised Black-Topped Ware
• Revised Levin’s Bug
• Revised Sursock Bronze
• Revised Baalbek
• Revised Artemision
• Revised Statue of Artemis
• Revised Sela
• Revised Tushpa
• Revised The Parthenon
• Revised Elgin Marbles
• Revised Ara Pacis
• Revised Serabit el-Khadim
• Revised Proto-Sinaitic Script
• Fixed chronology table in Introduction
• Added Megiddo sections and plans: Temple 4050, Eastern Slope, Great Temple, and Stratum XV Temples.
• Timeline – filled in Biblical kings
• Timeline – Added Carthage and Sicily to timeline, cleaned up Greek and Roman data
• Fixed dates for Chalcolithic artifacts in Collection > Goddess
• Revised Sledge and Plough
• Revised Megiddo entries
• Updated Ebih-Il with map
• Updated Qala’at al-Bahrain
• Added maps: Cities
• Revised Levin’s Bug
• Revised Kneeling Bull-man
• Revised History and Religion

Code

• Fixed problem with toggling on and off events on timeline
• Added “Last Modified Date”
• Added ability to control visibility of events independently for each timeline
• Fixed issue with “Ancient List Date” not displaying properly in map gallery

I will post a few different types of content here:

1. A log of changes to the site
2. Articles of interest related to history, archaeology, and theology
3. Matters of controversy, particularly as they relate to the above

Each month I will add a section from an ongoing writing project, which I’ve divided it into four sections: text, artifact, architecture, tomb. The first part of each section will look at the archaeology of a theological controversy and the second part will look at how these controversies have continued to play out in the modern era.

I welcome comments and criticism related to the topic of the post.