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Scientists decipher a 16th century Aztec manuscript

Researchers have rethought the meaning of the pictograms that illustrate the famous Telleriano-Remensis Codex, created in the 16th century in Mexico. It turned out that this document is the first description of earthquakes on...

Archaeologists have found unusual toilets 2000 years old

The toilet is a U-shaped line of seats that 13 actors could use at the same time. In Turkey, archaeologists have discovered an ancient latrine that allowed at least a dozen people not only to...

Archaeologists have figured out how the Assyrians took an ancient biblical city

The first mentions of the city of Lakhish date back to the 15th century BC, in Egyptian sources it appears no later than the 14th century BC. This ancient city, which the Bible also...

Archaeologists have established the purpose of ancient megaliths in Jordan

Fragments of pottery, flint tools and bone remains have been discovered in Jordan by archaeologists from the Jagiellonian University under megaliths dating back about 5,000 years. Perhaps these ancient structures were not only burial...

A unique golden bible found. Which queen is it?

Lancaster nurse Buffy Bailey discovered a miniature golden Bible with the help of a metal detector along with her husband Ian near York. The security may have once been owned by a royal family. The 600-year-old...

An amateur archaeologist from Switzerland finds the site of the battle of the XII Legion

In 15 BC, in an alpine gorge, a battle took place between the Roman troops and the reta. Two years ago, Lucas Schmid, an amateur archaeologist and volunteer at the Archaeological Survey of the Canton...

The ancient Egyptians mastered mummification 1,000 years earlier than previously thought

The preserved body of a high-ranking nobleman, discovered in 2019, turns out to be much older than previously thought, which could lead to rewriting of history textbooks The ancient Egyptians performed complex procedures to mummify...

The oldest skis discovered in the ice of Norway

As a result of the melting ice, archaeologists have found in Norway a pair of wooden skis of amazing preservation, almost 1,300 years old. I must say that the first ski was discovered in the...

Geneticists found three living relatives in the mummy from Switzerland

Christina Wurst from the private research center Eurac Research, together with scientists from Italy and Switzerland, analyzed the woman's mitochondrial DNA and found her living relatives. In 2018, researchers said they were able to identify...

The Dardanelles Underwater Park takes visitors to the wreckage of warships

In Turkey, an underwater park takes visitors to the wreckage of 14 British and French warships sunk in the Dardanelles during World War I. The site, located on the Gallipoli Peninsula in northwestern Turkey,...

Archaeological sensation: the largest winery from Byzantine times discovered

A sophisticated wine-making facility, the largest of the Byzantine period ever discovered in the world, has been found by archaeologists near the town of Yavne, 24km from Tel Aviv, the Israeli Antiquities Service said....

A 3,200-year-old stone inscription telling of a Trojan prince from the sea people has been unraveled

An inscription on a stone slab of 3200 years, which tells about a Trojan prince and who is from the mysterious sea peoples, was read, archaeologists announced yesterday, October 7, Live Science reported. The 29-meter-long...

See a treasure of Venetian glass vessels found in the Black Sea bay on the Bulgarian coast

On August 27, 2021 in the Archaeological Museum of Burgas will be opened an exhibition dedicated to the results of archaeological underwater research of the Center for Underwater Archeology and the National History Museum...

Archaeologists have found bouquets in Mexico almost two thousand years old

Archaeologists have found bouquets in Mexico almost two thousand years old

Well-preserved cells with original dinosaur DNA have been identified

Well-preserved cells with original dinosaur DNA have been identified

Shards with the name of the biblical judge of Israel were found at the excavations near Kiryat Gat

They found a fragment of a small ceramic vessel with one of the names of the biblical judge Gideon. The five letters of Paleo-Hebrew writing in ink on a vessel readily read "Yerubaal." The precious shard was in a pit-cache dug in the ground and lined with stones.

An Italian praises Mehmed the Conqueror with an epic poem from 1475.

Ankara University Philist social sciences graduate Barin Akman and her husband, Academician Beyazit Akman, discovered a stunning 5,000-line Renaissance poem of the Renaissance, written by an Italian poet in honor of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror.

Social homes in Byzantium: beyond the walls of fear

The Byzantine Empire had a wide network of social institutions, supported by the state, the Church or private individuals. Already in the decisions of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (4th century) was noted the obligation of the bishops to maintain in each city "inn" to serve travelers, the sick and the poor. Naturally, the largest number of social institutions were concentrated in the capital Constantinople, but many were also scattered in the countryside. The various sources (legislative acts, monastic types, chronicles, biographies, inscriptions, seals, etc.) speak of hundreds of charitable establishments, which are divided into the following groups:

The Chinese were the first to cultivate cannabis 12 thousand years ago.

Geneticists compared the DNA of 110 different cannabis strains from around the world and found that the basal group originated in China. The cultivation of this plant began about 12 thousand years ago, that is, in the early Neolithic era, which coincides with archaeological finds. The article was published in the journal Science Advances.

Earth memory map. Scientists have discovered a site that records 120 million years of planetary history

However, now scientists have found a place where the development of life over 120 million years is recorded. Moreover, it covers the Paleozoic, a particularly important but poorly preserved era. The only problem is that this treasure is located in one of the most inaccessible places on Earth.

Priceless treasure of coins of Alexander the Great found in the UAE

In the United Arab Emirates, a mission from the Sharjah Archeology Office during excavations in the city of Mleikha discovered a treasure that experts called priceless. It consists of hundreds of silver coins dating from the 3rd century BC.

A portrait of Babylonian King Nabonidus was discovered by archaeologists in Saudi Arabia

Archaeologists from the Commission on the Heritage of Saudi Arabia have found unique rock inscriptions and drawings, which are already recognized as the largest of its kind, ever found in the kingdom, according to Al Arabiya News.

Mass poisoning and new versions of the death of civilization: how our knowledge about the Maya changed

The mysterious Mayan civilization is still interesting to scientists and remains not fully understood. We regularly learn some new details about her life and hypotheses about the reasons for her complete disappearance. We will tell you how our knowledge about this mysterious civilization has changed recently.

The first Olympic champion from the Bulgarian lands 1700 years ago

It is interesting to look back at the dawn of the Olympic Games. The famous Bulgarian archaeologist Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov tells about Aurelius Fronton by Augusta Trayana (today Stara Zagora, Bulgaria) - a first-class athlete who was also chairman of the Roman province of Thrace and the province of Europe founded in 297!

Homo longi: how a new human species changed the history of the origin of Homo sapiens

Homo longi is an extinct species that could replace Neanderthals as the closest relatives of Homo sapiens: it was found in China. It is possible that several sister evolutionary lineages existed in China and the Middle East at the same time as Homo sapiens. Let's tell in more detail what is known about the new type of man.
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