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Where was obtained the material for King Herod’s baths?

King Herod's baths: Israeli scientists from Bar-Ilan University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have refuted the well-known hypothesis that Israeli calcite alabaster artefacts were made from material extracted exclusively in Egypt. This conclusion...

A huge face in Egypt resembling the Great Sphinx discovered

A group of archaeologists has discovered a giant face carved into a mountain slope in the Theban necropolis. The face resembles that of the Great Sphinx in Giza and in ancient times looked at...

Scientists have discovered an ancient forest at the bottom of a giant abyss in China with trees 40 meters high

Giant trees and new species at the bottom of the hole with a depth of 192 meters Chinese scientists have discovered hitherto unknown animal and plant species at the bottom of a hole in the...

Mayan fillings made of precious stones could serve not only as decoration, but also as protection against caries

Maya tooth jewelry made of jade, gold and other precious metals and stones, probably not only gave "gloss" to their owners, but also served as a prevention of caries and periodontal disease. This property...

What monsters are hiding in the Swiss Alps?

Paleontologists have studied several fossils of three new to science ichthyosaurs (sea dinosaurs), which were probably larger than almost all animals that ever existed on the planet. The finds were made in the Swiss...

Prominent Mexican archaeologist receives Princess of Asturias award

Eduardo Matos Moktesuma led the excavations of the Great Aztec Temple in Mexico City - a remarkable event in the world of archeology Renowned Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moktesuma, who led the excavations of the...

A 130,000-year-old baby tooth

It provides more information on how man came to be A baby tooth at least 130,000 years old, found in a cave in Laos, could help scientists find more information about an early cousin of...

Newly unearthed tomb of a Seleucid satrap in Iran

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tomb during excavations in the ancient city of Nahowand in Iran. According to them, this may be the tomb of a Seleucid satrap, reports Tehran Times. The tomb of the...

How the Persian king Xerxes ordered the sea to be flogged as punishment

Xerxes I, who ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century, goes down in history with his military invasion of Greece, marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis and Plateia. But according to historians,...

Scholars have deciphered Mayan texts

Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH) have deciphered mysterious hieroglyphs on a ceramic vessel discovered during archeological excavations. According to the INAH website, this is a vessel discovered by...

Not just a seductress: The secrets of Cleopatra

The general view of Cleopatra, presented in an ancient Roman text and popularized in modern media, is that of a temptress Cleopatra VII (69 - 30 BC) was the queen of the Ptolemaic kingdom of...

The Unsolved Mystery of Roman Dodecahedrons

It is safe to say that there are secrets of ancient Roman civilization that even a century of close study will not reveal to us. Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists often discover artifacts that are...

2000-year-old Roman bath welcomes tourists with healing 50-degree water

Following a major restoration, the ancient Roman bath of the Basilica of the Thermae, known as the "daughter of the king", near the city of Kayseri, central Turkey, was open to tourists. After the ban...

Difficult to repeat today. Archaeologists stunned by engineering discovery in Petra

As scientists note, the main reason why Petra flourished was the ability of the semi-nomadic Semitic people of the Nabataeans to manage a scarce water resource. Petra is a famous archaeological site located in...

Bioarchaeologists figured out the diet of the first Greek farmers

Bioarchaeologists have re-examined the Paleo diet of people whose remains were discovered at early Neolithic sites in Greece, and found that their diet consisted mainly of plant foods, the proportion of which ranged from...

Remains of sacred ibis found inside Egyptian hawk mummy

American explorers studied the mummy of a bird, which was considered the remains of a hawk. It turned out that under the "cocoon" are the remains of a sacred ibis, which even partially preserved...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a border checkpoint from the time of King Ptolemy III

An Egyptian archeological expedition at Gabal al-Haridi in the southern Suhaj region has found a checkpoint from the time of King Ptolemy III, who ruled from 246 BC. to 222 BC, according to the...

Egypt: 85 ancient tombs and the ruins of the temple of the goddess Isis discovered

Archaeologists during their work on the ancient Egyptian site of Gebel el-Haridi discovered the ruins of the temple of the goddess Isis, dating back to the Hellenistic era. Among other finds, the remains of...

Тhe largest cave paintings in North America discovered

The cave where the images were found, unlike anything known so far, was discovered by scientists long ago. But only now has it become possible to "see" its richly decorated ceiling - with the...

A sarcophagus with a bodyguard of Emperor Diocletian has been discovered in Turkey

In the town of Izmit (ancient name Nicomedia) in northwestern modern Turkey, local utilities are building a new office building. And they came across a whole cemetery underground. Archaeologists from the University of Marmara,...

The earliest known evidence of aurora borealis found in ancient Chinese chronicles

Ancient Chinese writing mentions a celestial phenomenon, which turns out to be the oldest known evidence of potential aurora borealis, preceding the next oldest by about 300 years. The celestial event mentioned in an ancient...

Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt

Ancient treasures. Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt Archaeologists discovered these stunning finds while searching for the remains of a vast Roman-era complex. During a recent excavation at a site west of Alexandria,...

Treasure of 1290 coins found by an amateur with a metal detector in Switzerland

Amateur archaeologist Daniel Ludin discovered a cache of fragments of pottery and coins dating back to around 330 AD near the 13th-century Wildenstein Castle in Switzerland with a metal detector. He sought help from specialists...

A dead zone was found in the Black Sea – ships have been stored there for thousands of years

Dozens of ancient ships that have survived to this day are stored in this region. Hundreds of sunken ships rot in the depths of the sea, the legendary Titanic dissolves and disappears in the Atlantic...

Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a thousand-year-old medieval hand grenade

Archaeologists have studied the remains of four ceramic pots from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. They were found in the vicinity of the Armenian Garden in Jerusalem, they are dated to the...
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