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04/10/2024

https://tavolamediterranea.com/2020/08/30/pliny-elder-chickling-vetch-sourdough-bread-starter/

Yup. You read that right. It's a recipe for an ancient Roman sourdough bread starter made from legumes!

25/08/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjCaltcOS_g

We explore abandoned US Army front line positions from the Battle of the Bulge to see what WW2 artifacts can still be found here. Lots of equipment was left ...

09/07/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xajvLro_8

In one of the most unbelievable cave diving stories, 3 divers set out to complete a simple 20-minute dive. Pieter Verhulsel goes missing, resulting in a stun...

08/07/2024

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2024/07/study-challenges-the-narrative-of-cahokias-abandonment/152521

A new study, published in the Sage Journal, casts doubt on the popular theory of why Cahokia was abandoned.

24/06/2024

https://www.popsci.com/environment/griffin-origin-story/

Paleontologists and folklorists search for facts about the mythological creature in the fossil record.

24/06/2024

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2436416-easter-islands-legendary-societal-collapse-didnt-actually-happen/

Historians have claimed the people of Easter Island overexploited natural resources, causing a population crash, but new evidence suggests they lived sustainably for centuries

11/06/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13517645/Jesus-childhood-revealed-2-000-year-old-manuscript.html

The earliest known recollection of Jesus' childhood was discovered at a university library in Germany. The 2,000-year-old text depicts the story of the 'vivication of the sparrows.'

30/05/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13476241/prehistoric-discovery-Wisconsin-lake-divers.html

Archaeologists have made a prehistoric discovery at the bottom of a US lake, which they believe could lead them to a long-lost ancient civilization that once thrived in the region.

29/05/2024

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/world/ancient-egyptian-skull-cancer-treatment-scn/index.html

In a skull marred with bone damage from multiple tumors, archaeologists have found never-before-seen evidence from ancient Egypt of surgical intervention for cancer.

25/05/2024

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-dead-beneath-london-s-streets?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Human remains dating back to the Roman Empire populate the grounds below the surface, representing a burden for developers but a boon for archaeologists.

25/05/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13442131/terrifying-sound-world-mimic-scream-corpses.html

The Aztec Death Whistle is somewhere between a spooky gust of whistling wind and 'the scream of a thousand corpses', according to experts.

24/05/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13454133/holy-grail-shipwreck-ocean-treasure.html

The 'holy grail' of shipwrecks remains at the bottom of the ocean stocked with billions of gold and jewels - but the Colombian government just made it impossible for the treasure to be claimed.

14/05/2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-theory-humans-evolved-ability-distances.html

A pair of anthropologists, one with Trent University, in Canada, the other with the University of California, Davis, in the U.S., reports evidence in support of a theory that humans developed the ability to run long distances to capture fast-running animals.

09/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWz823PDM3o

Wooden furniture is rarely preserved in excavations of Roman sites. An exception is the material from Herculaneum. Usually, these items are not on display...

08/05/2024

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/13/the-british-museums-blockbuster-scandals?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

While facing renewed accusations of cultural theft, the institution announced that it had been the victim of actual theft—from someone on the inside.

08/05/2024

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-artifacts-temple-city-david-accurately.html

A team of archaeologists, antiquities specialists, Bible scholars and mass spectrometry specialists, affiliated with several institutions in Israel working with one colleague from the U.K. and another from the U.S., has dated material uncovered in the First Temple in the city of David, in Jerusalem,...

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ANTIQVVS

ANTIQVVS is a stunning new magazine that is visually alluring and written in an accessible and engaging style. It was founded in late 2018 by Dr Mark Merrony, a classical archaeologist, former Editor and Editor-in-chief of Minerva, Founding Director of the Mougins Museum of Classical Art, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. His collaborators are Dr Murray Eiland, Managing Editor, who held the same role on Minerva, and is based in California; and Sofia Carreira-Wham, expert Correspondent.