Archaeology

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My Modern Met
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History
1,500-Year-Old Greek Inscription Reading "Christ, Born of Mary" Found in Israel
My Modern Met - Madeleine Muzdakis
Many precious artifacts of human history still lie undiscovered, waiting for excavation. Archeologists in Israel have recently made an extraordinary find which adds to scholars' knowledge of local life...
6 hours ago
Dylan O'Daily
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Wool
A Viking Archaeologist Shares 6 of the Most Fascinating Finds From a Slew of Recent Discoveries Made in Melting Ice
artnet.com - Sarah Cascone
Archaeologist Lars Pilø shares how Vikings would have used some of the recently discovered artifacts. Global warming has unlocked hundreds of Viking …
7 hours ago
Jeff Buhmann
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Pompeii
Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
Atlas Obscura - Farrell Monaco
In the autumn of 79 AD, Pliny the Younger wrote a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus, detailing the early stages of the eruption of Mount …
22 hours ago
Joseph Calandriello
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Toddlers
Puppy and toddler found in 2,000-year-old burial
Live Science - Laura Geggel
The ancient puppy's collar had a bell on it. Around Jesus' time about 2,000 years ago, a toddler in Roman-era Europe was laid to rest in a burial …
12 hours ago
Guardian US
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Detectorists
Detectorists: a sitcom about amateur archaeologists that's a bonafide heartwarming joy
The Guardian - Adam Fleet
Who would have thought a sitcom about a metal-detecting club would be one of the most heartwarming shows on TV? On paper it does, admittedly, sound like a bit of a hard sell. But scratch the surface of...
7 hours ago
Bunny Little
flipped into Vancouver
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Artifact Found on Victoria Beach
miss604.com - Rebecca Bollwitt
The artifact is a large slab of sandstone, a type of rock not found in this area, and does not appear to have been carved with steel tools. Keddie …
5 hours ago