Neolithic Archaeology

2. Surprising Findings in the Field

“A szeghalmi járás nagyon érdekes őskori terület...”
Translation: “The Szeghalom parish is a very interesting prehistoric region...”
Kálmán Darnay, "Szeghalmi Ásatásról," Archaeologiai Értesitő, 1905, p. 66

Boy is that an understatement! I now know first-hand what the archaeologist Kálmán Darnay experienced more than a hundred years ago, when he began the first excavations at the Szeghalom-Kovácshalom tell, the site where we’re currently working.

1. Musli-Sziget Pánzio—Vésztő, Hungary

Jonathan Harker’s Journal, 3 May:

"...Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets... The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule..."

Dracula, Bram Stoker, 1897

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