History

Its ruins are somewhere in the swamps of Georgia. What will it take to find them?

The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their immediate family members involved in religious activities, the burial itself, or feasting at banquets and hunting in the Nile marshes.

Two cosmetic products have been identified from residues in the tomb of a non-noble woman who lived in China 2000 years ago, suggesting the widespread use of make-up

"What an artist dies with me!" The Roman Emperor Nero (AD 54 until AD 68) reportedly uttered those famous last words before his death in exile. Archaeologists in Italy report the discovery of ancient ruins that are believed to be Nero's theater under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel just steps away from the Vatican.

Rare And Tiny Ancient Stamps Found In Falster May Show The Way To An Unknown King’s Home: A metal detectorist in Denmark has made an intriguing archaeological find. ...he discovered tiny, curious objects that were unlike anything he had seen before.
https://www.ancientpages.com/2023/07/26/rare-tiny-finds-falster/

#ancient #denmark #history #archaeology #metaldetecting

Did ancient Romans invent unbreakable glass? If they did, their secrets are long lost because the Roman Emperor Tiberius beheaded the inventor of flexible glass.

How the Ancient Greeks Invented the First Computer: An Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism (Circa 87 BC): https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/how-the-ancient-greeks-invented-the-first-computer.html

#ancient #greek #history #archaeology #tech #technology #computer

Wealthy landowners hired men who agreed to live in isolation on their estates for as long as seven years

Mentioned in the 2nd millennium BC, Idu iwas a major center and the capital of the central province of Assyria. As located at the gate that leads from the plains of the west to the mountains of the east and northeast, Idu was a significant crossroad of two axes, south-north, and west-east. In the region met many people like Hurrians, Babylonians, and Assyrians.

I was really surprised that they didn't want to land on Spanish territory while they were literally starving to death on their boat. I wouldn't have thought Spanish captivity would be that bad - I just assumed they'd be fed, in prison for a while, and returned to some British colony?

Earthen and shell mounds built hundreds of years ago by Indigenous people in the Mississippi River Delta contribute to biodiversity and the area's resiliency to erosion today, research by a Florida State University archaeologist has found.

Possible remains of 187-year-old jail uncovered in Albany: A team of staff and students from the University of Notre Dame Australia believe they have uncovered the underground remains of an 187-year-old jail at a historic site in Albany, in Western Australia's south.
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-year-old-uncovered-albany.html

#australia #history #archaeology #jail

At the 1939 World’s Fair, Robert Latou Dickinson Demystified Pregnancy for a Curious Public: The gynecologist and sculptor’s “Birth Series” broke barriers, but how do his views on abortion, race and women’s health square with what we know today?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/at-the-1939-worlds-fair-robert-latou-dickinson-demystified-pregnancy-for-a-curious-public-180982568/

#history #science #medicine #pregnancy #art #sculpture #Smithsonian

About 90,000 years ago, an interesting child walked the Earth. This individual was a young human hybrid. Nicknamed Denny by scientists, the ancient girl is the only known individual whose parents were from two different human species!

Roman glass recovered from shipwreck: A team of French and Italian underwater archaeologists have recovered a selection of glassware and raw glass blocks from a Roman shipwreck between the Italian island of Capraia and the French island of Corsica. http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67862

#ancient #Roman #shipwreck #archaeology #history

Sumerian city of Nippur was among the most ancient of Sumerian cities and one of the most important religious centers oft Mesopotamia.

Shoes and boots, show where your feet have gone. —Guy Sebeus, 10 New Scythian Tales In the age of fast fashion, when planned obsolescence, cheap materials, and shoddy construction have become the norm, how startling to encounter a stylish women’s boot that’s truly built to last… …like, for 2300 years.

Improved radiocarbon dating aided by a solar flare in the year 775 sheds light on the early days of Vikings and global trading in medieval times.

In 985, Viking explorer Erik the Red led a group of Icelandic farmers to Greenland, where they established a settlement on the west coast. The Norse settlers strove through winter cold, food shortages, and, in the end, a shifting climate. Nevertheless, finally, seemingly suddenly, they vanished, and their mysterious disappearance in the fifteenth century has posed a riddle to scholars ever since.

1,800-Year-Old Spices Are Earliest Evidence of Curry Making in Southeast Asia: Archaeologists found evidence of spices such as turmeric and cloves from ancient Vietnam, suggesting South Asians shared their culinary traditions via an ancient maritime trade route. https://archive.is/HLgxr

#archaeology #foodhistory #ancient #vietnam #curry #southasian #history

Four suspects in the shocking theft of a Celtic gold coin hoard from the Celtic-Roman Museum in Manching, Bavaria, have been arrested. The bad news is one of the suspects was carrying 18 gold lumps in a plastic bag at the time of his arrest.

When people think of ancient paleoart, cave paintings (pictographs), rock engravings (petroglyphs), images on trees (dendroglyphs) or arrangements of rocks in patterns (geoglyphs) might come to mind. Until recently it was only possible to speculate that the oldest art might have been in sand.

What the Film Oppenheimer Probably Will Not Talk About: The Lost Women of the Manhattan Project: Hundreds of the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project were women. They were physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians. Today we bring you the story of one of them.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-film-oppenheimer-probably-will-not-talk-about-the-lost-women-of-the-manhattan-project/

#oppenheimer #oppenheimermovie #manhattanproject #atomicage #history

For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia.

Ancient ‘Unknown’ Script Is Finally Deciphered: Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-unknown-script-is-finally-deciphered/

#history #archaeology #decodingthepast #kushanscript