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Black Gold: Sumerian Bitumen Recipes Worked Like Asphalt, 4,000 Years Ago

Getting your audio player ready... Sumerian craftspeople in Mesopotamia didn’t simply scoop up natural bitumen and slap it on boats…

2 weeks ago

Healing, Purification and Holiness: How Ancient Cultures Used Olive Oil

Getting your audio player ready... Tamara Lewit/The ConversationToday, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs…

3 weeks ago

Hidden Signatures Reveal Ancient Rome’s Master Glassmakers

Getting your audio player ready... A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023…

3 weeks ago

4,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Tree Trunk Coffin to Make Museum Debut

Getting your audio player ready... A massive 4,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin, carved from a single oak tree and discovered by…

4 weeks ago

Gems That Represented Ancient Symbols of Wealth and Power

Getting your audio player ready... Throughout history, precious gemstones have gone beyond decoration, serving as powerful symbols of wealth, authority,…

4 weeks ago

Scholars Say Many Beliefs About Vikings Are Based On Medieval Fiction

Getting your audio player ready... Scandinavian studies scholars at the University of Münster have delivered a sobering message to enthusiasts…

1 month ago

Roman Occupation Exposed Britons to Disease and Class Divides

Getting your audio player ready... The Roman invasion of Britain in 43 AD brought with it dramatic social upheaval that…

1 month ago

Renaissance Gallows Unearthed in France With 32 Executed Victims

Getting your audio player ready... Archaeologists working in Grenoble, France, have made a chilling discovery that sheds light on the brutal…

1 month ago

Ancient Astronomical Alignments: Reading and Mapping the Stars at Early Advanced Civilization Sites

Getting your audio player ready... Many of the cuneiform tablets of Mesopotamia and hieroglyphs of Egypt make reference to the…

1 month ago

‘Demosthenes’ by James Romm review

‘Demo-cracy’: power/might of the demos. ‘Demo-sthenes’: strength to/for/with the demos. Demosthenes’ father may have been unimaginative – he had himself…

1 month ago