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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL —A hoard of 1,700-year-old coins has been discovered in central Israel by researchers from the Israel A...
19/07/2024

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL —
A hoard of 1,700-year-old coins has been discovered in central Israel by researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), according to a Live Science report. The 94 silver and bronze coins, which date to between A.D. 221 and 354, had been hidden in a public building in Lod, a city known to the Romans as Diospolis. The building is thought to have been destroyed during the last known Jewish revolt against Roman rule, known as the Gallus Revolt, for Flavius Claudius Constantius Gallus, who ruled the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire at the time. The cities of Tiberias and Sepphoris were attacked, in addition to the city of Lod. “This is essentially an emergency hoard, meaning a hoard that people hide in anticipation of a catastrophic event,” said IAA archaeologist Mor Viezel. Many of the coins were minted during the years of the revolt, from A.D. 351 to 354, he added.

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KOŠICE-ŤAHANOVCE, SLOVAKIA —The remains of six Polish soldiers killed in eastern Slovakia during the Battle of Budimír o...
19/07/2024

KOŠICE-ŤAHANOVCE, SLOVAKIA —
The remains of six Polish soldiers killed in eastern Slovakia during the Battle of Budimír on December 11, 1848, have been unearthed by researchers from the East Slovak Museum, according to a report in The Slovak Spectator. The battle was fought between trained Austrian soldiers and inexperienced revolutionary forces. “Military practice dictated that soldiers were buried where they fell to prevent epidemics,” said team member Uršula Ambrušová. Historic records stated that 20 fallen Polish soldiers were buried next to a stone pillar after the two-hour battle, leading Ambrušová and her colleagues to the site. She explained that the condition of the bones indicates that the men were about 19 or 20 years old at the time of death. Museum director Dominik Béreš added that the bodies had been carefully interred, likely by their comrades. “Even though they themselves faced death, challenging conditions, and freezing cold, they treated the fallen with the utmost respect,” he said. Brass buttons, one iron button, and coins that had been sewn into a coat were also found in the grave. Ján Hudacký, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland, said that the Polish embassy is interested in supporting the continued investigation of the site.

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ZADAR, CROATIA —Reports that bronze trumpets made in the Dutch city of Leiden have been found in the cargo of a sixteent...
19/07/2024

ZADAR, CROATIA —
Reports that bronze trumpets made in the Dutch city of Leiden have been found in the cargo of a sixteenth-century Dutch shipwreck in the Adriatic Sea, near Croatia’s Cape Kamenjak. “The trumpets were being transported in pieces,” said Luka Bekić of Croatia’s International Centre for Underwater Archaeology. “We can see that when looking at the number of these parts, and we know that there were more than ten of them. There are only less than ten trumpets from the sixteenth century in well-known museums across the entire world,” he explained. Beads and ceramics were also recovered from the shipwreck, which was likely transporting a load of grain to Venice when it sank. The site is being recorded with photogrammetry so that a digital model of it can be made, added team member Roko Surić. The ship’s three cannon will remain on the seabed with the wreckage, but the site will be protected with a new underwater system that is being tested for the first time, the researchers concluded.

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS —According to a Newsweek report, traces of a structure that may have been the eighteenth-century h...
19/07/2024

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS —
According to a Newsweek report, traces of a structure that may have been the eighteenth-century home of Pompey Mansfield, who was also known as “King Pompey,” were uncovered on the banks of the Saugus River in Massachusetts after a review of deeds, genealogical records, old maps, probate records, and newspapers by researchers from Northeastern University and the University of New Hampshire. Mansfield is thought to have been born in the early eighteenth century in West Africa, then enslaved and trafficked across the Atlantic Ocean. He was eventually freed in New England, where records show that he bought two acres of land in 1762 and constructed a stone house. The site of the home had been lost over time, however. Mansfield is known to have hosted hundreds of free and enslaved Black people at his home in an annual event known as “Black Election Day,” where he was elected to the title of “King,” and entrusted to handle important matters for the local Black community, nearly every year until his death. The structure discovered at the site matches the descriptions of Mansfield’s home found in the historical documentation. “The big find was the handmade pebble foundation without quarry rock,” said Meghan Howey of the University of New Hampshire. Large stones were usually purchased for foundations, but the use of river pebbles, she explained, indicates that this home had been built by a self-reliant person without access to a quarry. “And then [there is] the compelling match of the historical descriptions, the bend in the river, marshy meadow, oak trees [to consider],” she added.

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ANTIKYTHERA, GREECE —Archaeologists have carried out new excavations at the site of the ship that was carrying one of th...
19/07/2024

ANTIKYTHERA, GREECE —
Archaeologists have carried out new excavations at the site of the ship that was carrying one of the world’s oldest scientific instruments among its valuable cargo of marble sculptures, ceramic vessels, and other items from the east to Greece, according to a statement released by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece (ESAG). The most extraordinary discovery the underwater team made was a portion of the ship’s hull preserved in excellent condition still in its original position from when the vessel sank in the first century B.C. “This allows us to better understand the ship’s construction characteristics that had remained elusive until now, but also to determine the precise location and orientation of the wreck,” says University of Geneva archaeologist Lorenz Baumer. The site of the wreck was first discovered off the island of Antikythera in 1900 by sponge divers who pulled up 82 fragments of the famous Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek astronomical calculator, a year later.

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COPENHAGEN, DENMARK —According to a Science Magazine report, Huan Xia of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Frido Welke...
19/07/2024

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK —
According to a Science Magazine report, Huan Xia of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Frido Welker of the University of Copenhagen identified a Denisovan rib bone found in Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau among the remains of yaks, deer, hyenas, wolves, snow leopards, golden eagles, pheasants, and bharal, an animal also known as the blue sheep. The identification of the hominin rib was made through the analysis of proteins in its collagen with zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry, or ZooMS. The amino acid sequences in the rib were determined to be a close match to those found in the remains of a Denisovan girl who lived in Siberia’s Altai Mountains some 50,000 years ago. Many of the animal bones in the study bore cut marks likely made by stone tools found in the same layers of the cave, which indicates that Denisovans processed the animals for their meat, marrow, and hides, and may have made tools from some of the bones. The Denisovan rib has been dated to between 48,000 and 32,000 years ago, when modern humans also lived in the region. Modern Tibetans are known to carry a gene variant, thought to have been inherited from Denisovans, that helps them to breathe at high elevations. The researchers suggest that this contact between Denisovans and modern humans may have occurred on the Tibetan Plateau. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Nature.

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