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1,000 Years Ago There Were Tens of Thousands of Languages in the World, Today Only 7,500 Remain: This Is What Happened
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (573+ words) A study published in 'Science' reconstructs the global evolution of languages over the last 12,000 years and challenges the narrative that the loss of linguistic diversity began exclusively with European colonialism. Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages....
Elevated Roads That Seem to Lead Nowhere Found in an Iron Age Fort in Western England
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (742+ words) A team of archaeologists and students from the University of Birmingham has begun the first excavation work at the site known as Wall Camp, an Iron Age fort located on the Shropshire plain in western England, which had not been…...
The Mystery of the Baboon and the Ibis: Moonlight Reveals Why the Ancient Egyptians Deified Two Such Different Animals
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (287+ words) The work, conducted by researchers from the University of St Andrews and Dartmouth College, proposes an answer that does not rely on abstract symbolism or complex theological allegories, but instead on the physics of light and the objective measurement of…...
Moskstraumen, the Norwegian whirlpool that looks so much like Charybdis from the Odyssey that some theories say they are the same
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (1537+ words) Between Nordic myth and modern oceanography, an archipelago in northern Norway continues to produce, every six hours, one of the most intense whirlpool systems on the planet. Between the islands of Moskenesøya and Mosken, in the Norwegian archipelago of the…...
Thrace’s First Farmers: The Settlement of Paradimi Is Older Than Previously Believed and Had a Double Defensive System
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (940+ words) Multidisciplinary research at the mound of Paradimi, in northeastern Greece, has dated its origin to the Early Neolithic for the first time, around 6200 BC or even earlier. The results, published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, confirm that Paradimi…...
Two babies were buried in an ancient Roman latrine at the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus in the 8th century, centuries after the building’s abandonment
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (451+ words) Archaeologists document a double burial from the Byzantine period in the Artemision, in the High Middle Ages, which contradicts the conventional interpretation of perinatal remains in sanitation contexts as evidence of abandonment or selective disposal. The analysis of the remains,…...
Findings at the Iberian Site of the Assut de Tivenys Point to an Origin Prior to the 3rd Century BC and Reveal a Seal and a Fibula of Sertorian Soldiers
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (399+ words) This summer’s campaign did not interrupt the educational component that has accompanied the L’Assut excavations since 2012, allowing scientific research to be combined once again with hands-on training for students from various undergraduate and graduate programs. This full immersion in fieldwork…...
Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (247+ words) The discovery of a complete funerary unit with more than five hundred ushabti figurines, amulets, and imported Rhodian pottery offers new insights into cultural interactions in the Delta during the Late and Greco-Roman periods. The senior official added that the…...
The Statue of a Bacchante Found in Tusculum May Have Belonged to Cicero and is the First Discovered Work of the Famous Sculptor Evandros
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (939+ words) A marble sculpture over two thousand years old, found in Roman baths, could be one of the famous bacchantes the orator bought in 46 B.C. and never came to appreciate. A team of archaeologists from the Spanish School of History and Archaeology…...
Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher's Stone
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (356+ words) And for that, one also had to undergo an appropriate personal transformation, as expressly indicated by some of the thirteen precepts. These are: I. What I say is not fiction, but worthy of belief and true. II. What is below is like…...