Why ancient Romans used sketchy, lopsided dice to gamble and play board games
Why ancient Romans used sketchy, lopsided dice to gamble and play board games People have been rolling dice for a long, long time. The first dice were made from sheep knucklebones more than 5,000 years ago in ancient Sumer, and you won if it landed on the right one of the four flat sides. Around …
Colonial-Period Burials Found on Ancient Temple in Peru
Colonial-Period Burials Found on Ancient Temple in Peru A team of Peruvian archaeologists uncovered three burials from the Spanish colonial period on top of a pre-Hispanic temple, which may be up to 500 years old, a researcher said Thursday. Peru was under Spanish rule for nearly 300 years, from 1532 when they invaded and defeated …
New Pompeii finds highlight middle-class life in the doomed city
New Pompeii finds highlight middle-class life in the doomed city A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged accent tables topped by decorative bowls. These latest discoveries by archaeologists are enriching knowledge about middle-class lives in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius’ furious eruption buried the ancient Roman city …
1,000-year-old bison skeleton unearthed in Mitchell
1,000-year-old bison skeleton unearthed in Mitchell What a completely unusual find. Two students found the bones of an ancient bison while digging last week at the Prehistoric Indian Village. The estimated 1,000-year-old bones discovered by the University of Exeter students help reveal how the Ame… What a completely unusual find. Two students found the bones …
Construction in Rome Reveals Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Dog Statue
Construction in Rome Reveals Well-Preserved, 2,000-Year-Old Dog Statue Archaeologists in Rome recently unearthed an ancient terracotta statue with a dog’s head that was buried below an urban road. The statue, which is palm-size, shows a pointy-eared pup with long, wavy fur flowing over its head and neck. It appears to be wearing a collar dangling …
New Thoughts on Africa’s Bantu Expansion
New Thoughts on Africa’s Bantu Expansion The study used novel computational approaches and linguistic data from more than 400 Bantu languages to reconstruct the historic migration routes. The project was a collaboration between scientists from the Max Planck Insтιтute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. …
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt
Temple Dedicated to the Sun God Unearthed in Egypt Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a 4,500-year-old temple dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Ra at the site of Abu Ghurab, about 12 miles (20 kilometres) south of Cairo. The temple was built sometime during ancient Egypt’s fifth dynasty (circa 2465 B.C. to 2323 B.C.) …
9,000-Year-Old Underground Settlement With Megalithic Stone Circle, Discovered Beneath The Mediterranean Sea
9,000-Year-Old Underground Settlement With Megalithic Stone Circle, Discovered Beneath The Mediterranean Sea Not far off the coast of the village of Atlit in the Mediterranean Sea, near Haifa in Israel, lies the submerged ruins of the ancient Neolithic site of Atlit Yam. The prehistoric settlement, which dates back to the 7th millennium BC, has been …
10,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Depict UFOs And Aliens
10,000-Year-Old Rock Paintings Depict UFOs And Aliens The State Department of Archaeology and Culture in Chhattisgarh, India, is seeking ᴀssistance from the Indian Space Research Organisation to research a set of ancient rock paintings found inside caves near the town of Charama in Kanker district, in the tribal Bastar region, according to a news report …
The 7,000-Year-Old Elongated Skull Mummies Of Chile
The 7,000-Year-Old Elongated Skull Mummies Of Chile The Chinchorro culture existed on the coast of present-day northern Chile and southern Peru as much as 9,000 years ago, and interestingly they purposefully mummified their ᴅᴇᴀᴅ. Mummification first arose about 7,000 years ago, making them 4,000 years older than the same practice carried out in Egypt. The …