The study by Fuks et al. is a first publication of the recently founded Crop History Consortium (CHC), dedicated to synthesis research on historical cultivation, usage, and geographic and evolutionary trajectories of crop plants, focusing on the Middle East and … Read more
Scientists are looking at layers of minerals left behind on mammoth tusks to estimate where the hulking animals spent their days. Scientists have written the biography of a 14,000-year-old female woolly mammoth by analyzing the chemicals in her tusk. The … Read more
How heavy can an element be? An international team of researchers has found that ancient stars were capable of producing elements with atomic masses greater than 260, heavier than any element on the periodic table found naturally on Earth. The … Read more
VÉgA, for Vocabulary of Ancient Egyptian in French, is an online digital dictionary, born from private/public collaboration within the LabEx Archimede (ANR-II-LABX-0032-01), supported by the CNRS and the University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3. Its aim is to become an indispensable and … Read more
Wildfires are getting worse. Parts of the United States, scientists say, are experiencing wildfires three times as often — and four times as big — as they were 20 years ago. This summer alone, smoke from Canadian blazes turned North … Read more
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How Ancient Astronaut Theorists Faked a Hindu Nuclear Explosion Jason Colavito2011/2013 Note: This article was updated in 2013 to include new information. The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.— … Read more
Enlarge / An Egyptian drinking vessel in the shape of Bes head contained traces of Syrian rue and blue water-lily, among other compounds. Tampa Museum of Art, Florida reader comments 53 with An ancient Egyptian vase in the shape of … Read more
A collaborative paper by academics from institutions across the globe, including Oxford University, suggests that Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificed young children as an offering to the gods. The paper argues that well-meaning attempts to interpret the ‘tophets’ – ancient infant … Read more
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, Learning Ancient Greek can be… challenging. For one thing, there are competing dialects (as was discussed in our Podcasts with the Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cyprus.) As such, there are times when we … Read more