Chris Mav

Magazines

Archaeology and History

Flips

Pompeii
Archaeologist Finds New Evidence Of The Romans Who Escaped Mt. Vesuvius
Forbes - Kristina Killgrove
The plaster casts of Romans killed when Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. are internationally famous, but scholars have long known that more people escaped the volcano’s destruction of the Bay of Naples
Greece
A Celebration of Ancient Greek Music in Athens
greekreporter.com - Tasos Kokkinidis
Learning about ancient Greek music at at the Athens HostelAn event celebrating ancient Greek music, which was organized by the Australian …
Social Media
Pottery reveals America's first social media networks
phys.org - Gerry Everding
Long before Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and even MySpace, early Mississippian Mound cultures in America's southern Appalachian Mountains shared …
Archaeology
Metropolitan Museum Repatriates Gilded Coffin to Egypt
archaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni
CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, New York City's Metropolitan Museum handed over an ancient gilded coffin to the Antiquities …
Science
Stonehenge stones did not come via the sea, new study suggests
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
The theory that the huge bluestones of Stonehenge were transported from Wales by sea has been debunked by archaeologists after finding the stones belong to quarries that point away from the coast. Some
Science
Neolithic skull found by Thames 'mudlarkers'
bbc.co.uk - By Jonathan Amos
Here's a piece of history pulled from the muddy banks of the River Thames. It's a skull fragment that is 5,600 years old. It dates to a time long before there was any permanent settlement on the site now
Medieval
Medieval Chivalry
Ancient History Encyclopedia on soundcloud.com
Architecture
Gallo-roman Museum Vesuna / Jean Nouvel
archdaily.com - Martita Vial
To Protect and to Reveal It is perhaps the piles of amnesiac architecture in and around our cities, and the decades of accumulation which causes us to …
Virginia
New database would protect lost African-American burial sites
Fox News - Anna Hopkins
New legislation proposed to Congress last week would protect lost African-American burial grounds, and green-light the creation of a database for tracking the historic areas. Burial sites with the remains
Science
Human bones found at Colorado construction site may be 1,000 years old
Fox News - Robert Gearty
Colorado construction workers have made a surprising discovery, unearthing human bones of a Native American man that could date back a millennium. The workers discovered the remains Wednesday during an
Archaeology
Archaeologists Make 'Very Special' Viking Era Discovery in Norway
Forbes - David Nikel, Contributor
Erich Nau, NIKU Gjellestad, Norway: The site of the discovery Almost one thousand years after the end of the Viking Age, Norwegian archaeologists have made a sensational find near Halden in the south-east
Ice Age
Fires and off-road vehicles 'destroying archaeological treasures' on ancient hill fort
thenorthernecho.co.uk
The Ice and Fire project, which is digging up treasures dating back to Neolithic times – just after the Ice Age – on the historically precious site, …
Madhya Pradesh
Court gets Hampi vandals to re-erect pillars, pay fine
newindianexpress.com
Express News Service BALLARI: They huffed and puffed, panted and sweated it out. The four youths who had vandalised pillars at the Vishnu temple …
Egypt
Roman-Era Winery Storage Rooms Found in Egypt
archaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni
CAIRO, EGYPT—Live Science reports that archaeologists have unearthed a series of storage rooms in a 2,000-year-old winery complex near Egypt’s …
Archaeology
Minoan Snake Goddess, Knossos.
ancient.eu
Illustration by Mark Cartwright published on 26 April 2012 About the Author Mark is a history writer based in Italy. Surrounded by archaeological sites, …
Archaeology
How Was Iron Smelted in Ancient Israel? Researchers Build Kilns to Find Out
haaretz.com - Nir Hasson
The Iron Age was a turning point in the history of the Land of Israel. Iron tools began to appear around 3,000 years ago, gradually supplanting the …
Stone Age
Stone Age Europe may have been home to no more than 1500 people
newscientist.com - Colin Barras
Stone Age Europe was a lonely place to live. An assessment of ancient population sizes suggests a vast swathe of western and central Europe may have …
Mesopotamia
The lifespans of ancient civilisations
BBC Future - Luke Kemp
In the graphic below, the University of Cambridge’s Luke Kemp compiled a list of civilisations to compare how long they lasted. One way to look at the rise and fall of past civilisations is to compare
Archaeology
Why an Outlaw Was Stabbed to Death and Then Buried Face-Down in Medieval Sicily
Live Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu
In medieval Sicily, a man was stabbed multiple times in the back, buried in a really weird way and ostensibly lost to history. Now, hundreds of years …
Neanderthals
Neanderthals Were Alpha Predators, Study Shows
haaretz.com
Neanderthals subsisted mainly on meat, it has long been suspected, but not categorically proven. Now, a new study published Monday in PNAS provides …
World News
Ancient site linked to Caesar's murder to open to public
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — A complex of ancient temples in Rome that are linked to the scene of Julius Caesar's murder will be opened to the public. The below-street-level temple ruins at Largo Argentina in downtown
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Hear a Reconstruction That is ‘100% Accurate’
openculture.com - by DC
Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. …
Archaeology
Northern B.C. First Nation clan says ancient tools found at pipeline work site - Kelowna Capital News
kelownacapnews.com - The Canadian Press
Coastal GasLink says it has suspended pipeline work south of Houston, B.C., while claims of the discovery of Indigenous artifacts on the site are …
Middle East
The struggle to save Iraq archaeological sites after ISIL battles
AlJazeera - Al Jazeera
Many of Iraq’s most important archeological sites lie in ruins after the battle against ISIL. During their occupation of Iraq, ISIL deliberately destroyed and looted much of the country's rich archaeological
World News
NIS 200 million to be invested in development of Old City’s Jewish Quarter
jpost.com - JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Projects will include renovating the Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue, the Burnt House and the Wohl Archaeological Museum. Burnt House. (photo credit: …
Archaeology
Archaeologists Make 'Very Special' Viking Era Discovery in Norway
Forbes - David Nikel
Almost one thousand years after the end of the Viking Age, Norwegian archaeologists have made a sensational find near Halden in the south-east of Norway. The burial mound and adjacent field harbour several
Science
Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in Peru
phys.org
Peruvian archaeologists discovered an Incan tomb in the north of the country where an elite member of the pre-Columbian empire was buried, one of the …
Science
Is This the Footprint of One of the Last Neandertals?
scientificamerican.com - Kate Wong
Researchers have discovered an array of fossilized footprints in an ancient sand dune in Gibraltar, the small British territory on the southwestern …
Libya
Libya dreams of mega port in history-laden east |
Reuters - Thomson Reuters
Libya is in talks with a U.S. firm to build a huge port to create jobs in an underdeveloped area in eastern Libya but archaeologists warn that the construction work would damage some world class ancient
The Arts (Australia)
The gateway to hell? Hundreds of anti-witch marks found in Midlands cave
The Guardian - Mark Brown Arts correspondent
If there is a gateway to hell, a portal from the underworld used by demons and witches to wreak their evil havoc on humanity, then it could be in a small east Midlands cave handy for both the M1 and A60.