The secrets of a 2,000-year-old burnt scroll
The ancient scroll, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. It's ...
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Patachitra: Ancient storytelling tradition finds new life in contemporary art and commerce
West Bengal’s tradition of patachitra is kept alive in Muslim-majority Naya village of Pingla block in Paschim Medinipur ...
AI gives first tantalising look inside a 2,000- year-old Roman scroll
The scroll was discovered in the town of Herculaneum, a town destroyed in the volcanic eruption that buried neighbouring ...
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Archeologists uncover tax fraud in ancient Rome
Court documents from an ancient tax fraud and forgery case show that tax evasion was an issue even 2,000 years ago.
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7 ancient megaliths around the world that rival Stonehenge
Was Stonehenge an ancient calendar? A new study says no. The Carnac stones, located in Brittany in northwestern France, date back around 6,000 years. They consist of about 3,000 stones ...
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Moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim
THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...
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How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy
Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...