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Intriguing Bowls of Impossible Metals
By Gracus Bloom for City Paper
The Electrum Ritual Bowl (circa 650–600 BC)
Long before coinage standardized wealth, artisans in Lydia and Egypt were already shaping...
Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon
While excavating near the ancient city of Armageddon in Israel, archaeologists unearthed a 3,300-year-old Canaanite "tea set," a dollhouse-sized temple, and one of the...
‘I screamed out of excitement’: 2,700-year-old cuneiform text found near Temple Mount — and it reveals the Kingdom of Judah had a late payment...
A 2,700-year-old pottery sherd discovered near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the first known correspondence between the Assyrian Kingdom to the Kingdom of...
‘He is so very expressive’: Viking Age game piece from Harald Bluetooth’s time may depict a mustached Viking king
The 1,000-year-old "king" piece from a Viking board game is one of the few depictions of a ruler from the Viking era, according to...
1.8 million-year-old jawbone may be earliest evidence of Homo erectus outside Africa
A roughly 1.8 million-year-old Homo erectus jawbone discovered in the Republic of Georgia may be evidence of one of the earliest human groups to...
