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On 7 November the Nekrasov Library will host "Open List", a festival devoted to history and archaeology "Open List" is a free one-day festival that will bring together scholars, archaeologists, museum specialists, artists and popularisers of science from different cities of Russia. Over the course
The East · Archaeology
Among the 5,000 spectator seats of the theatre in the ancient city of Apollonia on the Rhyndacus, a cremation burial of the 1st century AD has been discovered. The ruins of Apollonia lie near the village of Gölyazı on Lake Uluabat in Bursa Province, in north-western Turkey. The
Archaeology · Mores
In one of the houses in the centre of Pompeii a wooden wardrobe has been discovered. Inscriptions in the house suggest that it belonged to a Roman by the name of Cornelius Maximus. The house stands on one of the main streets of Pompeii. The researchers established that, before the
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An offering chapel belonging to Ikhetnefer, wife of the high priest Sabu, has been discovered at Saqqara. Saqqara is the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, situated some 30 kilometres south of modern Cairo. The chapel is about 4,000 years old. An offering chapel was the place where
The East · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Paris
An ancient Egyptian ritual statuette made for a high-ranking official named Ptahmose, who lived in the New Kingdom, in the reign of the pharaoh Ramesses II. Ptahmose was a royal scribe, steward of the royal estates and mayor of Memphis. The shabti, that is, the funerary figurine, of Ptahmose
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Chinese scientists have established that fossil bones from the Xujiayao site in northern China belonged to Denisovans. The work was carried out by a team led by Fu Qiaomei of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences The Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of
Archaeology · Ethnography
In the state of Yucatán a Maya city has been discovered that its inhabitants did not abandon for several hundred years after its political collapse Around AD 900, up to 19,000 people may have lived in Aké. In the following centuries drought, war and violence brought political upheaval to
Archaeology · Faith · London · Science
The British archaeologist Warwick Rodwell, consultant to Westminster Abbey, has published a study of a skeleton that lay for many years in a Roman stone sarcophagus in the Abbey. The sarcophagus was made of limestone in the 3rd or 4th century AD. The Latin inscription on it states that the
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Around 7,300 years ago, on the sea floor off the southern tip of the island of Kyushu, the Kikai volcano erupted. It is known as the Kikai-Akahoya eruption, after the layer of orange volcanic ash, "akahoya", that it left behind. The eruption caused violent earthquakes, enormous
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The bronze statue "The Orator", the Arringatore, depicts an Etruscan man in a toga with a raised hand. It was found in 1567 at Pila, near Perugia, and is now kept in Florence. According to reports of the time, the statue was green when it was found. It
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There is a popular story that a student once asked Margaret Mead what she considered the first sign of civilisation, expecting to hear about clay pots, fish hooks or grinding stones, and that Mead answered: a healed femur. An animal with a broken thigh bone cannot run from a predator,
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White Sands National Park in New Mexico preserves human footprints that scientists regard as the oldest evidence of people in North America. A new study has refined their age: between 23,500 and 21,700 years. This was the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, that is, the period when