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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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2013.09.05 20:27
Ancient Egyptian Herbal Wines
Patrick E. McGoverna, Armen Mirzoianb, and Gretchen R. Halla (Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA)
Abstract
Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed into pottery jars from the beginning of advanced...
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2013.09.05 13:52
European Hunter-Gatherers Had Domesticated Pigs Earlier Than Thought
Ker Than
Domesticated pigs were present in northern Germany around 4600 B.C., some 500 years earlier than previously thought, new fossil and DNA evidence reveals.
The finding, detailed in this week's issue of the journal Nature Communications, is significant because the people living in that part...
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2013.09.05 13:42
Állatáldozatok Jeruzsálemben
Messziről, több száz kilométeres távolságból érkeztek a zsidó zarándokok kétezer évvel ezelőtt Jeruzsálembe, hogy a templomnál állatáldozatokat mutassanak be. A második templom idején a diaszpórákban élők így járultak hozzá az ábrahámi világvallások szent városának gazdasági fejlődéséhez.
A...
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2013.09.04 20:19
Drought drove collapse of Late Bronze Age civilizations
Climate change may have driven the collapse of once-flourishing Eastern Mediterranean civilizations towards the end of the 13th century BC, according to research published August 14 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by David Kaniewski from the University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France and...
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2013.09.04 11:51
King Solomon’s Mines: A Reappraisal
A new study by a team from Tel Aviv University concludes that the copper mines at Timna, near Eilat, were in operation during the reign of Solomon. The new dating is based upon Carbon-14 studies which shift the peak of copper production down three centuries from the 13th century to the...
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2013.09.03 20:37
Ancient art fills in Egypt's ecological history (oryx)
Ancient Egyptian rock inscriptions and carvings on pharaonic tombs chronicle hartebeest and oryx — horned beasts that thrived in the region more than 6,000 years ago. Researchers have now shown that those mammal populations became unstable in concert with significant shifts in Egypt’s climate.
The...
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