The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at the beginning of the ninth century ...
My heart is breaking. My soul is aching,” an archaeologist said, as Israel’s bombardment threatens or destroys Roman amphitheaters, crusaders’ citadels and centuries-old souks.
Historians have decoded inscriptions on an ancient tablet that is believed to be the oldest surviving map of the world. Reading the Babylonian relic, which includes a circular map accompanied by text ...
Dr. Irving Finkel, Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script at the British Museum, led the team that unlocked the ...
An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a myth.
About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders ... level of abstraction away from the world around you,” said Benjy Barnett, who is completing graduate work on consciousness at University College London.
In a finding that bridges ancient mythology with historical cartography, the British Museum’s analysis of a 3,000-year-old ...
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...
From Daily Life in the Middle Ages, to Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen, to Classic Italian Jewish Cooking, to The Time ...
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