Sturgeon 3,951 Posted March 31, 2016 Report Share Posted March 31, 2016 Etruscan stele discovered (apologies for CSM) Belesarius 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrashbotUS 228 Posted April 1, 2016 Report Share Posted April 1, 2016 Images from the Galloway Viking find. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-35871538 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160323-vikings-galloway-hoard-treasure-scotland-archaeology/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxn 1,406 Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 Evidence of a large bronze-age battle: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-age-battle These things always make me realise just how much history passes us by unremembered. For these people, this battle must have been epoch-making - the sort of thing that toppled civilizations and created dynasties. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxn 1,406 Posted April 12, 2016 Report Share Posted April 12, 2016 While I'm linking articles from Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin The take-home: most of Europe was quite swarthy until around 8000 years ago (the far Northerners being the blonde-haired, blue-eyed exception). Also: being pale has serious adaptive advantages for early agricultural societies in sunless parts of the world. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Priory_of_Sion 917 Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Pleistocene hominins as a food source for carnivores. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrashbotUS 228 Posted May 2, 2016 Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 Children's doodles from 10th century Novgorod. http://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/04/30/medieval-doodles-7-year-old-boy-novgorod/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxn 1,406 Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 While I'm linking articles from Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-europeans-evolved-white-skin The take-home: most of Europe was quite swarthy until around 8000 years ago (the far Northerners being the blonde-haired, blue-eyed exception). Also: being pale has serious adaptive advantages for early agricultural societies in sunless parts of the world. More on the same theme: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/the-pleistocene-as-humanitys-hyborian-age/ There are surely a bunch of very unhappy racists out there who now have to contend with the idea that whiteness itself was 'invented' around the time that pre-dynastic egyptians were doing their thing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxn 1,406 Posted May 25, 2016 Report Share Posted May 25, 2016 I have been slowly reading through this and it. is. the. shit: http://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/amat/iss/index.html Edit: especially the history of metals (section 10) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sturgeon 3,951 Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 King Tut's iron dagger was made from meteorite ore: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/king-tuts-dagger-was-made-meteorite-180959294/ Donward and Belesarius 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belesarius 1,476 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 400 wax tablets going back to 43 A.D. found in London. Wet mud protected them, apparently. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/02/480407904/hello-from-londinium-oldest-handwritten-documents-in-british-history-discovered Some of the finds included: The oldest handwritten document ever found in Britain, dated to A.D. 43-53, the earliest years of Roman rule in Britain The earliest date recorded on a handwritten document in Britain — a tablet marked with Jan. 8, 57 (as we'd write it today) The first reference to "London" — or Londinium, as it was then known — as a city name, from A.D. 65-80 Tablets that seem to have been used to practice the alphabet and numbers, possibly the first evidence for a school in Roman Britain Sturgeon and Donward 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donward 3,056 Posted June 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I'm glad that we now know there was a bloke called "Tertius the Brewer" who lived in London 2,000 years ago. Belesarius and CrashbotUS 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belesarius 1,476 Posted June 6, 2016 Report Share Posted June 6, 2016 I'm glad that we now know there was a bloke called "Tertius the Brewer" who lived in London 2,000 years ago. Well, if we travel back in time, gotta know who to get tasty beverages from. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrashbotUS 228 Posted July 18, 2016 Report Share Posted July 18, 2016 Ax info. http://sagy.vikingove.cz/two-handed-axes/ LostCosmonaut 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sturgeon 3,951 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 That's a wonderdul blog, Crashbot. I am gonna add it to the embedded blogs on the site. CrashbotUS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CrashbotUS 228 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 He does a really good job with his research. Pretty knowledgeable guy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sturgeon 3,951 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 It has been added. I have some others I should add, as well. CrashbotUS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Toxn 1,406 Posted August 10, 2016 Report Share Posted August 10, 2016 Ancient hominin dietary changes: http://www.uvic.ca/assets2012/docs/doi10.1016%20j.jas.2016.07.013.pdf Belesarius 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Belesarius 1,476 Posted September 13, 2016 Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 HMS Terror found. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/12/hms-terror-from-doomed-franklin-expedition-found.html Donward 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Scolopax 503 Posted September 22, 2016 Report Share Posted September 22, 2016 Welp Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donward 3,056 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 The face of Scottish hero Robert the Bruce has been digitally reconstructed based on casts of what is thought to be his skull. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-38242781 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donward 3,056 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 Man. Those Germans Egyptians invented everything! Glassmaking may have started in Egypt, not Mesopotamia Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donward 3,056 Posted January 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 Archaeologists may - or may not - have found King Solomon's Mines. http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/king-solomons-mines-israeli-archaeologists-say-fortified-trading-post-a-sign-of-his-wealth-power/news-story/6c19bf80a0d6cb2110200a6b74a25fb9 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X16305867 Turns out they are copper mines in Southern Israel. Allan Quartermain could not be reached for comment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collimatrix 3,739 Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 3000-year old gold-decorated spear and bronze sword found in Scotland Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Collimatrix 3,739 Posted February 25, 2017 Report Share Posted February 25, 2017 80% of the Aztec Empire's population may have been wiped out by salmonella outbreak Priory_of_Sion 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Donward 3,056 Posted March 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2017 The oldest known image of Confucius has been discovered, a polished bronze mirror etched with the philosopher's image. It dates back to at least 74 BC. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-known-image-confucius-found-tomb-disgraced-emperor-180962358/ The artifact was discovered in the tomb of the disgraced Emperor Liu He who was deposed after only 27 days, having committed "1,127 offenses". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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