Tag: history
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...
Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds
An international research team has created a new map of the Roman Empire — and it expands the ancient road network by more than...
‘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...
