Ancient Archeology

University of York finds drugs trace in Bronze Age jug 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 24, 2018
Traces of opiates preserved inside a 3,500-year-old jug have been found by scientists.

By David Aragorn
An exploding meteor may have wiped out ancient Dead Sea communities 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 22, 2018
Archaeologists at a site in what’s now Jordan have found evidence of a cosmic calamity

By David Aragorn
The World’s Oldest Analog Computer, Antikythera Mechanism, Is Now Complete 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- November 21, 2018
Scientists believe that the Antikythera mechanism is the world’s oldest analog computer, and, luckily, it is now complete as the researchers found the missing component on Aegean seabed.

By David Aragorn
Greenland impact crater could help explain disappearance of woolly mammoths, early humans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 20, 2018
A scarily large meteorite crater has just been discovered in Greenland. It hit the world with the force of 700,000,000 nuclear bombs.

By David Aragorn
Did Ancient Egyptian Scribes Discover Algol’s Variability 3,000 Years before European Astronomers?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 19, 2018
An ancient Egyptian Calendar of Lucky and Unlucky Days assigns luck with the period of 2.85 days. Previous astronomical, astrophysical and statistical analyses of the calendar support the idea that this was the period of the eclipsing binary star Algol approximately 3,000 years ago. However, next to nothing is known about who recorded Algol’s period into the calendar and especially how. In a paper published in the journal Open Astronomy, University of Helsinki researcher Sebastian Porceddu and colleagues argue that the ancient Egyptian scribes had the possible means and the motives for such astronomical observations.

By David Aragorn
Ancient ship graveyard discovered in treacherous waters 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 17, 2018
Three ancient shipwrecks that carried pottery cargoes and two from later times were discovered last month by a Greek-U.S. team of marine archaeologists in the notoriously treacherous waters of the eastern Aegean Sea, a project official said Tuesday.

By David Aragorn
Kola Superdeep Borehole 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 16, 2018
The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

By David Aragorn
Antikythera anticlimax: ancient computer excitement a case of over-anticipation 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 15, 2018
The 2200-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, one of the most fascinating archaeological finds, has just suffered a big setback.

By David Aragorn
Ice Age Asteroid Crater Discovered Beneath Greenland Glacier 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Space
- November 15, 2018
It is the first impact crater discovered under one of Earth’s ice sheets, according to the scientists who found it.

By David Aragorn
DNA of world’s oldest natural mummy unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- November 13, 2018
A legal battle over a 10,600 year old ancient skeleton — called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ — has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe.

By David Aragorn