Archeologists discover 2000-year-old Roman coins on the deserted Swedish island of Gotska Sandön
Archeologists discover 2000-year-old Roman coins on the deserted Swedish island of Gotska Sandön Archaeologists found 2,000-year-old Roman coins on the Swedish deserted island of Gotska Sandön. Previously, ancient Roman coins were discovered on the Swedish island of Gotland. Finding similar ancient items on the deserted island of Gotska Sandön, on the other hand, is unusual. …
Chelmsford: Roman Apollo ring with links to Snettisham hoard found
Chelmsford: Roman Apollo ring with links to Snettisham hoard found A silver ring unearthed in an EsSєx field may be connected to a famous Roman jeweller’s hoard found in Norfolk in 1985, a historian has said. The ring is inset with a carnelian carving of the god Apollo. It was found by a metal detectorist …
Unpredictable Rainfall May Have Helped Destabilized Ancient Maya Societies
Unpredictable Rainfall May Have Helped Destabilized Ancient Maya Societies Reduced predictability of seasonal rainfall might have played a significant role in the disintegration of Classic Maya societies about 1,100 years ago. The decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies in a new study recently published in Communications Earth & Environment. University of New …
Intact Ball Game Carving Discovered at Chichen Itza
Intact Ball Game Carving Discovered at Chichen Itza *** Presents two ball players in the center; It has a diameter of 32.5 centimeters, 9.5 centimeters thick, and 40 kilograms in weight. *** It must have been attached to an arch that served as access to the Casa Colorada architectural complex In the Archaeological Zone of …
Hidden Ptolemy text, printed beneath a Latin manuscript, deciphered after 200 years
Hidden Ptolemy text, printed beneath a Latin manuscript, deciphered after 200 years Researchers have deciphered an ancient manuscript that they think Claudius Ptolemy, an Egyptian mathematician and astronomer of Greek descent, penned during the first century A.D. Written in Greek on parchment, the text was originally discovered in 1819 by Angelo Mai, a Roman Catholic …
Tomb of Amun Temple Steward Discovered in Saqqara
Tomb of Amun Temple Steward Discovered in Saqqara An archaeological mission from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden (RMO) and the Egyptian Museum in Turin (Museo Egizio) uncovered the remains of Panehsy’s tomb, the steward of Amun Temple in the early Ramesside period, along with a collection of smaller chapels in the Saqqara Necropolis. …
1,000-year-old brick tomb discovered in China is decorated with lions, sea anemones and ‘guardian spirits’
1,000-year-old brick tomb discovered in China is decorated with lions, sea anemones and ‘guardian spirits’ A stunning brick tomb thought to be more than 800 years old has been discovered in northern China by workers renovating stormwater drains. The tomb contained three bodies — two adults and one child — as well as several pottery …
Centuries-old skeleton with mᴀssive, crippling bone growth unearthed in Portugal
Centuries-old skeleton with mᴀssive, crippling bone growth unearthed in Portugal A rare and gruesome bone growth protruding from a 14th to 19th-century woman’s thigh bone mushroomed after she suffered severe trauma, anthropologists in Portugal have found. The 3-inch (8 centimeters) lump sprouted precisely where a muscle joins the inner thigh bone and the public bone …
Scientists Trace an Ore Source for the Benin Bronzes
Scientists Trace an Ore Source for the Benin Bronzes The Benin Bronzes — some roughly 3,000 stunning bronze artworks sculpted by African metalsmiths between the 16th and 19th centuries — were crafted from metal mined from Germany’s Rhineland region, a new study finds. Researchers had long suspected that the masterfully crafted sculptures — created by …
Ancient Wooden Tags Offer Clues to Egypt’s Climate
Ancient Wooden Tags Offer Clues to Egypt’s Climate Swiss scientists are reconstructing the climate of the ancient world using small wooden artefacts hung on mummified remains. Throughout history, the earth’s climate has undergone natural fluctuations. Although insignificant compared with the current crisis, these fluctuations would nevertheless have been enough to make and unmake empires. According …