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2013.09.15 20:09
Mycenaean palace, Linear B tablets found near Sparta
Until recently, Laconia was regarded an exception in the map of the Peloponnese Mycenaean palaces, even though –according to myth– its queen, Helen, was the cause of the Trojan War (the Homeric epics are an important source of information about the topography, the social and political organization...
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2013.09.13 20:41
Ancient Egyptian brewery reconstructed in 3D
A 5,500 years old brewing installation discovered by Polish archaeological mission at Tell el-Farcha in Egypt has been reconstructed in 3D by Karolina Rosińska-Balik, PhD student at the Jagiellonian University Institute of Archaeology.
"The presented reconstruction is a hypothetical assumption...
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2013.09.08 20:29
Late Roman well unearthed near Heslington
Archaeologists from the University of York say a virtually intact Late Roman well discovered near Heslington, on the outskirts of the city, may have had significance in contemporary local agricultural cycles and fertility practices.
The well, which is thought to have been in use for several...
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2013.09.08 20:12
Declassified spy photographs reveal lost Roman frontier
Declassified spy photography has uncovered a lost Roman Eastern frontier, dating from the second century AD.
Research by archaeologists at the Universities of Glasgow and Exeter has identified a long wall that ran 60 kilometers from the Danube to the Black Sea over what is modern Romania. It is...
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2013.09.08 20:07
Bronze Age boats older than was first thought
Eight Bronze Age boats discovered in a deep Cambridgeshire quarry are much older than it was first thought, carbon-dating research has revealed.
The vessels, found by archaeologists at Must Farm near Peterborough in 2011, have now been dated to about 1500 BC, 200 years older than was first...
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2013.09.08 19:58
Evidence of Production of Luxury Textiles and Extraction of Copper from Hala Sultan Tekke (Cyprus)
A Swedish archaeological expedition from the University of Gothenburg has excavated a previously unknown part of the Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke (around 1600–1100 BC). The finds include a facility for extraction of copper and production of bronze objects, evidence of production of luxurious...
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2013.09.06 22:12
Oldest port on the Nile - oldest papyri ever found
The remains of a large commercial harbour complex dating back to the Fourth Dynasty 4,500 years ago have been discovered at Wadi el-Jarf, a town on the Red Sea shore 110 miles south of Suez city, Egypt. Inscriptions and radiocarbon dating of pottery date the site to the reign of the pharaoh Khufu...
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2013.09.06 22:04
Egyptian bead made out of meteorite iron
There are Egyptian artifacts made out of iron that predate evidence of iron smelting in Egypt by thousands of years. The oldest of these are a group of nine tube-shaped beads found in a cemetery in the town of Gerzeh, about 44 miles south of Cairo, and now part of the permanent collection of...
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2013.09.05 20:50
Family matters, Economy, culture and biology: fertility and its constraints in Roman Italy
Saskia Hin (Leiden University and Stanford University)
Abstract
This article approaches the phenomenon of fertility in Roman Italy from a range of perspectives. Building on anthropological and economic theory, sociology and human evolutionary ecology various processes that affect fertility patterns...
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2013.09.05 20:45
Explaining the maritime freight charges in Diocletian’s Price Edict
Walter Scheidel (Stanford University)
Abstract
In an article published in 2007, Pascal Arnaud explored the price ceilings for maritime transport stipulated in the famous tetrarchic price edict of 301 CE. In this document, maximum allowable freight charges for specific sea routes are expressed in...
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