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Published on: 01-06-2021
It was midnight in Germany when an archaeology event highlighting ancient discoveries began livestreaming from 6,000 miles away at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, United States. But Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, an astrophysicist with the European Southern Observatory in Garching bei München, decided to view as much of it as her energy level would allow.
Hatziminaoglou had connected 10 years earlier with La Sierra archaeologists while serving as a dig site volunteer in Jordan. She had also delivered a joint presentation in Italy in 2019 on research into astronomy and archaeology with archaeologist Doug Clark, director of La Sierra’s Center for Near Eastern Archaeology (CNEA) on the school campus.