In History Extra, Emma Mason tells us that a new book will explore the “sexual habits of people in Ancient Greece – from prostitution to pillow talk.” She elaborates, “In Bed with the Ancient Greeks examines homosexuality, pederasty, mythological sex… Continue Reading
Painted human mandibles that may have been worn like necklace pendants have been discovered at a ceremonial site in Mexico that dates back around 1,300 years. In the same ceremonial area, numerous whistles and figurines were also discovered. Made out… Continue Reading
How do you digitize music dating from before musical notation? Becky Ferreira reports in Vice that the Optical Neume Recognition Project seeks to build a search engine for sifting through the millions of written “neumes,” which were primitive riffs on notation common in prayer… Continue Reading
The Istanbul Archeology Museum announced on Monday that they have made the largest archeological discovery of the year by unearthing “A 5,000-year-old tumulus, the oldest ever found in the country” in the Istanbul district of Silivri. The discovery is expected… Continue Reading
Jerash, the present day capital of the Jerash Governorate, northern Jordan, was known as Gerasa in antiquity, and it thrived as an ancient Greco-Roman city that was given the moniker of ‘Antioch on the Golden River’. Now from the historical… Continue Reading
If you think that our tax is confusing, the ancient Egyptians had their own tax measuring stick, literally. The nilometer was used to determined your tax rate based on the rise and fall of the river Nile. American and Egyptian… Continue Reading
This is for all the pirates out there. The port town of Caesarea (or Kesariya) was originally built by Herod the Great in late 1st century BC, and this settlement then served as the provincial capital of the Judaea Province… Continue Reading
A curious prehistoric site on a hilltop in northern Ohio may reflect the spiritual cosmology of the ancient hunter-gatherer people who built the site around 2,300 years ago, according to a new study. The so-called Heckelman site, located near the… Continue Reading
The metro Line C in Rome has been plagued with problem that every archaeologist wants that they keep finding new Roman archaeology. Rome is now making a museum to start housing what they find and trying to incorporate the site… Continue Reading
New bioarchaeological evidence shows that Nubians and Egyptians integrated into a community, and even married, in ancient Sudan, according to new research from a Purdue University anthropologist. “There are not many archaeological sites that date to this time period, so… Continue Reading