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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/12/science/uae-ancient-magan-boat-reconstruction A Bronze Age-style ship just sailed through the Persian Gulf 4,000 years after it was designed Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and sail it on a maid...

Yes and pointless commentary on 7 year old threads is not appreciated.

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Actually, 16 years after the last post it is not all that "fascinating."

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While the Schoningen Spears are not exactly news....they were first found in the 90's.... this article from last April expresses some interesting observations about the technical woodworking ability of the manufacturers some 300,000 ybp and no one is suggesting that they were HSS. https://www.scienc...

When I visited the Roman/Greek ruins at Pompeii, Ephesos and Corinth the guides made it a point to note that where businesses were established on the ground floors on the various streets (this version of Corinth was the Roman city after the Romans had leveled the Greek city in 147 BCE) they would po...

I suspect it is a legacy from the early days of archaeology. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries most "archaeologists" were sent out by religious-based institutions looking for evidence that their fairy tales were true. It's a knee jerk reaction and I agree that there is a large degr...

Well...we and their art have survived to the present. The artists have not so all we have to go by is careful investigation of what is discovered as evidence. The Great Pyramid presents the same dilemma. No one knows how it was built but there are countless hypotheses out there claiming one or anoth...

Of course whenever a building is found which has no immediately obvious purpose the archaeologists fall back on "ritual" in order to have a handy label. Might have been a community barbecue pit, too! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/discovery-of-4000-year-old-structure-in-greece-s...

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https://www.rawstory.com/records-of-pomp...to-unders/ Records of Pompeii’s survivors discovered Quote: On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles of debris up to 20 miles (32.1 kilometers) in the air. As the ash and rock fell to Earth, it buried the ancient cities of...

This time, the deciphered extract relates to the life of Plato. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/style/plato-herculaneum-papyrus-scrolls-intl-scli-scn/index.html Ancient text reveals details of Plato’s burial place and final evening, experts say Newly-deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have fina...

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From the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68777741 Quote: Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city Quote: Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79. Archaeologists s...

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Interesting archaeological find...although hardly unique. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240...vings-time Quote: The ancient Roman alternative to daylight savings time Quote: Just like we do today, the ancient Romans divided up each day into 24 units – but for the vast majority of the year, th...