This is a photo taken in 2015 by Wikimedia Commons user Jebulon, of a helmet made for a Mycenaean warrior between 3.300 and 3,400 years ago. It’s a display at the National Archaeological… Read the rest “Science Art: Boars’s tusk helmet NAMA6568, Athens, Greece.”
Science Alert covers a (mock) battle that solved an ancient mystery – when Greek marines figured out if the 3,500-year-old Dendra armor was genuinely useful or just made for show,… Read the rest “Marines combat-tested Bronze-Age armor. It worked.”
LiveScience has a dramatic development in a field I don’t think I’d ever considered: Linguistic archaeology. A historical linguist from UC Berkeley has used a language model… Read the rest “Languages show four waves of migration into prehistoric North America.”
Live Science reports on a first-of-its-kind archaeological discovery in the graveyard of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, where a woman buried a century ago was found to have a perfectly… Read the rest “Porcelain gallbladder exhumed from asylum cemetery.”
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It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, a survey of Roman antiquities,… Read the rest “Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.”
Science Daily has research from University of Oxford archaeologists that is potentially upending a long-standing belief about digging up our long-ago ancestors. After looking through… Read the rest ““An archive of ancient human brains.””
Science magazine reports on the Dutch discovery of, basically, Roman-era drugs hidden inside a hollow bone. The black henbane seeds could have been used to treat ailments (or to bring on… Read the rest “Ancient stash of hallucinogenic medicine discovered.”
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BBC reports on a very, very cold case that’s been solved. A body found during roadwork, extending a highway between Cambridge and Huntington, England, has been conclusively identified… Read the rest “Solving the mystery of a 2,000-year-old body”
CNN had a report on the resurfacing of 2,000-year-old carved faces in the stony banks of a stretch of the Amazon River, which have peeked above the waterline due to a record-breaking drought… Read the rest “Faces appear as the Amazon gets low.”
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SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From Where We Thought… Read the rest “SONG: Fine Altar Stone”
The Guardian looks back at a carbonized papyrus scorched by the lava that consumed Pompeii. University of Kentucky computer scientists have been able to decipher letters printed on the… Read the rest “AI is reading scrolls burned in Vesuvius.”
Physics Magazine joins Tufts University researcher Giulia Guidetti who has studied a glass shard that was broken and buried shortly after 100 B.C.E. that over 2,000 years gained the iridescent… Read the rest “Roman glass became photonic crystal”
PhysOrg reports on Witwatersrand researchers who’ve found tracks left by prehistoric footwear – a pair of flip-flop sandals that go back at least 75,000 years, making them… Read the rest “Stone Age flip-flops”
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