Roman concrete, called opus caementicium, was used in the construction of countless monumental buildings throughout the Roman world.
Researchers have spent decades trying to solve the secret of the ultradurable building material, which has…
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Researchers Find Two Extraterrestrial Minerals in El Ali Meteorite
The El Ali meteorite, a 15.2-ton iron meteorite found in 2020 near the tiny town of El Ali in Somalia, contains at least two new minerals: elaliite and elkinstantonite.
This sample of the El Ali meteorite contains two new minerals: elaliite…
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Tree ring study suggests drought encouraged Attila’s Huns to attack the Roman Empire
A study of tree rings suggests that the Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the Danube frontier provinces of the Roman Empire.
Hungary…
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New research reveals what Ancient Egyptian faience has to do with gold
Researchers from the University of Warsaw, and the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, have found that powdered quartz for the production of faience vessels from the ancient city of Athribis in the Nile Delta in Egypt, came from tailing heaps…
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New study of Uluburun shipwreck reveals ancient trade network
A new study of the 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck has revealed a complex ancient trading network during the Late Bronze Age.
The Uluburun shipwreck was discovered by a local sponge diver in 1982, close to the east shore of Uluburun (Grand…
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Dedicated archaeology community launches on Mastodon
Whilst Twitter appears to be going extinct with all the turmoil and public drama, a new haven for archaeology has been launched on the social network, Mastodon.
Mastodon is an ad-free micro-blogging platform, where each user is a member of a…
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Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin
Scientists, using an innovative mobile laser method have determined that gold found in ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin.
Researchers from several institutions, led by Ernst Pernicka, scientific director of the Curt-Engelhorn…
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Filmmakers discover large fragment from Challenger space shuttle
A documentary film crew have discovered a large fragment from the Challenger space shuttle, while searching for the wreck of a WW2 aircraft off the Florida coast, United States.
Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was a Space Shuttle orbiter,…
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Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms
A study by the University of Queensland has revealed new insights into the cosmic radiation storms that have occurred approximately once every thousand years.
Known as a Miyake event, the storms cause a rapid rise in carbon-14 due to huge…
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Researchers discover lost fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue
Researchers from the CNRS, Sorbonne Université and Tyndale House (affiliated with the University of Cambridge) have discovered fragments of the Hipparchus Star Catalogue, composed by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus during the 2nd century BC.
The…
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