Underwater archaeologists have discovered wicker baskets containing oil palm fruits and grape seeds at the site of the sunken ancient Egyptian port of Heracleion. Apparently, these items were used as grave goods, which allowed them to survive to this day from the 4th century BC. Most of the remains of …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 9 minuti Prosegue la rassegna dei siti che il Il World Heritage Committee ha aggiunto alla UNESCO’s World Heritage List, la Lista del Patrimonio Culturale Mondiale dell’UNESCO. Per la prima parte, clicca qui. Francia, Nizza. La città mediterranea Nizza testimonia l’evoluzione della località climatica invernale grazie al clima …

KYOTO, JAPAN—According to a statement released by Ritsumeikan University, analysis of sediments collected from Lake Suigetsu, which is located on Japan’s main island of Honshu, has allowed scientists led by Takeshi Nakagawa to reconstruct the area’s climate between 18,000 and 10,000 years ago. The study suggests that people based their …

KRASNODAR KRAI, RUSSIA—According to an ArtNet News report, researchers led by Vladimir Kuznetsov of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archaeology uncovered the broken neck of an amphora holding 80 copper staters in Phanagoria, an ancient Greek city located in southwestern Russia. The coins are thought to have been …

Archaeologists say they have found a 65,000-year-old leaf point in a cave in the Swabian Jura, Germany. The 65,000-year-old leaf point from Hohle Fels Cave, Germany. Image credit: University of Tübingen. “This discovery represents the first time a leaf point has been recovered from a modern excavation, allowing us to …

The Spektr-RG Space Observatory has helped astronomers see the early stages of the tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The light from the source traveled to the Earth for 2.5 billion years and further observations will help determine the mass of the …

In Mexico, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will be forced to take a non-trivial step and bury an ancient Aztec tunnel discovered and excavated in 2019 in the capital of Tenochtitlan. We are talking about the tunnel of the Albarradon de Ecatepec system, which is …

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 2 minuti La Gerusalemme del Secondo Tempio mostra un nuovo edificio restaurato: l’Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) ha aperto al pubblico, infatti, gli scavi di un sontuoso edificio databile al I secolo d.C. L’edificio, situato vicino al Muro Occidentale, potrebbe essere servito come sala di rappresentanza …

CANTERBURY, ENGLAND—BBC News reports that stained glass windows over the south entrance of Canterbury Cathedral, which depict the ancestors of Christ, have been re-dated to the mid-twelfth century using a new, non-destructive technique. Conservator Léonie Seliger and her colleagues used a device called a windolyser to shine a beam on …

Astronomers have recorded the shortest gamma-ray burst ever produced by the collapse of a massive star. The discovery may question the generally accepted classification of gamma-ray bursts based on their duration. Moreover, the completion of this research might lead to more discoveries of this kind.  The shortest gamma-ray burst and …