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1,700 year-old Roman cemetery discovered under another car park in Leicester
Posted on May 5, 2013 | No CommentsUniversity of Leicester Archaeological Services, the same group that discovered King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, has found a Roman cemetery in another car park in the same city. -
Rare bronze rams from the First Punic War discovered
Posted on April 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe ten rams (Latin rostra), each weighing around 125 kilogrammes and made of bronze, were mounted on the prow of the warships (ancient triremes or quinquiremes), and were used to ram the enemy ships. -
Research sheds light on ancient Egyptian port and
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsNew research into Thonis-Heracleion, the remains of a port-city that served as the gateway to ancient Egypt, has revealed dozens of sunken ships, which may help give us a better understanding of how maritime trade operated in the Eastern Mediterranean. -
Stone ships show signs of maritime network in Baltic Sea region 3,000 years ago
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsIn the middle of the Bronze Age, around 1000 BC, the amount of metal objects increased dramatically in the Baltic Sea region. Around the same time, a new type of stone monument, arranged in the form of ships, started to appear along the coasts. -
Roman mausoleum tested for ancient earthquake damage
Posted on March 25, 2013 | No CommentsBuilt under a sheer cliff, with a commanding view of the forum and castle in the ancient city of Pinara in Turkey, a Roman mausoleum has been knocked off-kilter, its massive building blocks shifted and part of its pediment collapsed -
Controversial exhibition on King Herod’s Tomb is featured tonight on Museum Secrets
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsA new exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem focusing on an ancient world's most controversial figures is drawing interest from the around the world, as well as creating new controversy -
Ancient Egyptian sun dial discovered
Posted on March 19, 2013 | No CommentsDuring archaeological excavations in the Kings -
One-third of ancient mummies had heart disease, study finds
Posted on March 11, 2013 | No CommentsAtherosclerosis -
Scientists create automated
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsScientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created an automated 'time machine,' of sorts, that will greatly accelerate and improve the process of reconstructing hundreds of ancestral languages. -
Daily Life of Ancient Egyptians examined in Qubbet el-Hawa research project
Posted on March 7, 2013 | No CommentsThe ancient Egyptians did not live in such good conditions and were not surrounded by such opulence as was thought up to now, but, rather, suffered from hunger and malnutrition, a whole range of infectious diseases and an extremely high infant mortality rate.
