Enlarge (credit: Pompeii Archaeological Park/Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism/Luigi Spina/Handout via REUTERS) A recently-unearthed termopolium, or “hot drinks counter” served up ancient Roman street food—and plenty of wine—to the people of northeast Pompeii in the days before Mount Vesuvius destroyed the city in a cataclysmic 79 CE eruption. Painted bright yellow and […]
Enlarge (credit: Reuters/Christian Howe) When Nazi naval officers tossed their ship’s Enigma encryption machine overboard, they probably thought they were putting the device beyond anyone’s reach. Blissfully unaware that Allied cryptanalysts in Poland and at Bletchley Park in the UK had broken the Enigma code, the Nazis had standing orders to destroy their encryption devices […]
Expand / / Detail of a medical treatise in the Tebtunis Temple Library with key words indicated in red ink. (charge: The Papyrus Carlsberg Collection) An global group of scientists employed high-energy x-rays to examine 12 objects from ancient Egyptian papyri and discovered lead chemicals in both black and red inks utilized. Based on their recent […]
Expand / / A section of fiber string that’s been wrapped with turkey feathers, together with a solitary downy feather. (charge: Washington State University) Indigenous Pueblo inhabitants in the Southwest–ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni, and Rio Grande Pueblo tribes–normally wove blankets, cloaks, and funeral wrappings from animal hides, furs, and turkey feathers. Anthropologists in Washington […]
Expand (charge: Reuters) Archaeologists discovered the remains of two men lying within a subterranean area in a big villa in the outskirts of the Roman town of Pompeii, in southern Italy, Reuters reports. Dependent on the status of the skeletons and hints from asserted traces of clothes, 1 man seems to have turned into a […]
Expand In Wilamaya Patjxaan archaeological site in southern Peru, archaeologists discovered the skeleton of a young lady whose individuals buried her having a seekers’ toolkit, such as projectile points. The Locate motivated University of California Davis archaeologist Randall Haas and his colleagues to have a close look at additional Pleistocene and early Holocene hunters from […]
Expand (charge: Elizabeth Tersigni) Founded researcher Anders Bergstrom and his coworkers recently sequenced the genomes of all 27 puppies out of archaeological sites scattered across Europe and Asia, which range from 4,000 to 11,000 years of age. People genomes, and those of {} , reveal how dogs have transferred across the globe with people because […]
Expand / The kitty is attracted from the negative, with its head turned toward the viewer. (charge: Johny Isla through AP) Employees in the Nazca Lines website lately discovered that the faded, partly eroded overview of a cat extending across a desert hillside. The cat combines the ever-growing collection of roughly 900 contours and graphics […]
These sealed crates can hold anything. (charge: Tomasz Stachura/ / Baltictech/Handout through REUTERS) A World War II shipwreck lately found off the shore of Poland could hold the dismantled portions of the Amber Room, also a Russian treasure looted from the Nazis and dropped since 1945. The mess of the German steamship Karlsruhe is located […]
Expand (charge: Sabin et al. 2020) Among those matters archaeology always teaches us is that humankind is unusually resilient in the face of catastrophe. Another is that feces is indefinitely. Archaeologists have researched the materials of coprolites along with also the substances left behind with a town’s worth of individual waste. And based on a […]