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How the Persian king Xerxes ordered the sea to be flogged as punishment

Xerxes I, who ruled the Persian Empire in the 5th century, goes down in history with his military invasion of Greece, marked by the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis and Plateia. But according to historians,...

Scholars have deciphered Mayan texts

Researchers from the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico (INAH) have deciphered mysterious hieroglyphs on a ceramic vessel discovered during archeological excavations. According to the INAH website, this is a vessel discovered by...

Not just a seductress: The secrets of Cleopatra

The general view of Cleopatra, presented in an ancient Roman text and popularized in modern media, is that of a temptress Cleopatra VII (69 - 30 BC) was the queen of the Ptolemaic kingdom of...

The Unsolved Mystery of Roman Dodecahedrons

It is safe to say that there are secrets of ancient Roman civilization that even a century of close study will not reveal to us. Meanwhile, historians and archaeologists often discover artifacts that are...

2000-year-old Roman bath welcomes tourists with healing 50-degree water

Following a major restoration, the ancient Roman bath of the Basilica of the Thermae, known as the "daughter of the king", near the city of Kayseri, central Turkey, was open to tourists. After the ban...

Difficult to repeat today. Archaeologists stunned by engineering discovery in Petra

As scientists note, the main reason why Petra flourished was the ability of the semi-nomadic Semitic people of the Nabataeans to manage a scarce water resource. Petra is a famous archaeological site located in...

Bioarchaeologists figured out the diet of the first Greek farmers

Bioarchaeologists have re-examined the Paleo diet of people whose remains were discovered at early Neolithic sites in Greece, and found that their diet consisted mainly of plant foods, the proportion of which ranged from...

Remains of sacred ibis found inside Egyptian hawk mummy

American explorers studied the mummy of a bird, which was considered the remains of a hawk. It turned out that under the "cocoon" are the remains of a sacred ibis, which even partially preserved...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a border checkpoint from the time of King Ptolemy III

An Egyptian archeological expedition at Gabal al-Haridi in the southern Suhaj region has found a checkpoint from the time of King Ptolemy III, who ruled from 246 BC. to 222 BC, according to the...

Egypt: 85 ancient tombs and the ruins of the temple of the goddess Isis discovered

Archaeologists during their work on the ancient Egyptian site of Gebel el-Haridi discovered the ruins of the temple of the goddess Isis, dating back to the Hellenistic era. Among other finds, the remains of...

Тhe largest cave paintings in North America discovered

The cave where the images were found, unlike anything known so far, was discovered by scientists long ago. But only now has it become possible to "see" its richly decorated ceiling - with the...

A sarcophagus with a bodyguard of Emperor Diocletian has been discovered in Turkey

In the town of Izmit (ancient name Nicomedia) in northwestern modern Turkey, local utilities are building a new office building. And they came across a whole cemetery underground. Archaeologists from the University of Marmara,...

The earliest known evidence of aurora borealis found in ancient Chinese chronicles

Ancient Chinese writing mentions a celestial phenomenon, which turns out to be the oldest known evidence of potential aurora borealis, preceding the next oldest by about 300 years. The celestial event mentioned in an ancient...

Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt

Ancient treasures. Coins with Cleopatra and ritual room found in Egypt Archaeologists discovered these stunning finds while searching for the remains of a vast Roman-era complex. During a recent excavation at a site west of Alexandria,...

Treasure of 1290 coins found by an amateur with a metal detector in Switzerland

Amateur archaeologist Daniel Ludin discovered a cache of fragments of pottery and coins dating back to around 330 AD near the 13th-century Wildenstein Castle in Switzerland with a metal detector. He sought help from specialists...

A dead zone was found in the Black Sea – ships have been stored there for thousands of years

Dozens of ancient ships that have survived to this day are stored in this region. Hundreds of sunken ships rot in the depths of the sea, the legendary Titanic dissolves and disappears in the Atlantic...

Archaeologists have discovered a fragment of a thousand-year-old medieval hand grenade

Archaeologists have studied the remains of four ceramic pots from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. They were found in the vicinity of the Armenian Garden in Jerusalem, they are dated to the...

Archaeologists with an incredible find in Nessebar churches

Nessebar, Bulgaria 24 Apr. 2022. Author: BLITZ Modern photographic computer technology is applied in Bulgaria at a limited number of sites Almost 360 drawings of ships on the walls of four churches in Nessebar have been...

Valuable antique discovered in the Gaza Strip

It was found by a farmer cultivating his land A 4,500-year-old stone statuette depicting the face of an ancient goddess has been discovered in southern Gaza, archaeologists in the Palestinian enclave say. Made of limestone and...

Villa of King Theodoric the Great found in Italy

In Italy, near the city of Verona, archaeologists have discovered part of an ancient Roman mosaic floor from the villa of Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths. Presumably, it was created in the...

Volcanoes contributed to the collapse of the Chinese dynasties

Large volcanic eruptions, as you know, are capable of creating the effect of nuclear winter - blocking sunlight (this leads not only to a decrease in temperature on Earth, but also to a weakening...

Treasures of a lost civilization, mentioned in a famous book of fairy tales, found

Marine archaeologists have made a statement about the discovery of the possible location of the kingdom of Srivijaya, which centuries ago was considered extremely powerful. The treasures of the empire, which mysteriously disappeared in...

Traces of a “parallel” civilization to Ancient Egypt have been discovered

An international team of archaeologists who have been working on the banks of the Nile in Sudan for many years has published data on numerous tombs of Nubian civilization. The study of scientists found...

Remains of ancient people in a cave in Bulgaria rewrite the first settlement in Europe

The discovery of 45,000-year-old human remains in Bulgaria's Bacho Kiro Cave has forced scientists to reconsider the existing theory that the first representatives of Homo Sapiens came to Eurasia from Africa. The remains of...

Archaeologists unearth grim Roman find in Wales

The remains of a Roman-era mercenary and his decapitated victim have been discovered at an archaeological site in the Welsh Vale of Glamorgan. Mark Collard, an archaeologist and head of the Rubicon Heritage excavation project,...
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