Stories by Jotham Johnson

In spite of education and communication our speech continues to evolve with such phenomena as palatalization, epenthesis, aphaeresis, anaptyxis, apocope, syncope, and recessive accent

What are the forces that destroyed the well-built cities of antiquity? Curiously the most effective of them were social. An account based on the ruins of Roman Minturnae

In 1952 an English architect deciphered the script called Linear B, providing a new key to the study of the people who lived in Greece 800 years before its classical period

At the Classical Site of Troy the Final Work of Archeological Excavation Has Now Been Completed, Nine Superimposed Cities Revealed in New Detail

Dura, Archeology's Most Hectic Day's Work, Found the Contracts, Mortgages, Accounts, Receipts, Letters, and Wills of the Ancient Citizens

The Excavation of Sites in Iran (Persia) Makes it Possible for the First Time to Piece Together a Partial Outline of Persian Archeological History. Tepe Hissar, an Ancient City Mound at Least Six Thousand Years Old, Was Once Inhabited by the Painted Pottery People of Unknown Identity

Spilled Stew Gave the Cue, Centuries Before the Potter's Wheel, Made Commerce More Profitable, Opened Many Fields of Art

Excavating the Sacred Well of Minturnae, and the Peculiar Surprise that was Found in it. What to do After Lightning has Struck a Public Building

Ancient Minturnae, an Early Roman Town, Stood in the Way of Rome's Great "Lincoln Highway." Excavations Reveal the Type of Roman Life

Ancient City Mound in Palestine, Evidences of Several Conquests Revealed to Excavators