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NEWS ABOUT: ancient history

ancient history stories: 6 news summaries
HERODOTUS WAS RIGHT DEPT

 Vanished Persian Army 
 Turns Up in Sand 

Evidence of 50K doomed soldiers found in Egyptian desert

Nov 17, 09 2:21 PM CST
(Newser) - Italian archaeologists in Egypt claim to have unearthed evidence of a 6th-century BC Persian military folly once thought mythical. Herodotus described an army of 50,000 Persians sent by their emperor, Cambyses, to destroy an oracle that had spoken ill of his ambitions. The army was, according to lore, beset... More »

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Iran • archaeology • Libya • ancient Egypt • archaeologist • ancient history • Persia • sandstorm • army • Herodotus

 Massive Ancient 
 Gold Trove Likely 
 Battle Booty 

Experts compare record find to discovery of King Tut's tomb

Sep 25, 09 2:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Experts dazzled by a record trove of ancient gold and silver unearthed in an English field believe the hoard of coins, hilts and parts of shields was war booty stripped from fallen soldiers and buried on the run. It was finally unearthed by a man with a metal detector 14... More »

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England • British Museum • gold • scientist • ancient history • body armor • King Tut • archeologist • metal detector • anglo saxon • Staffordshire Hoard • Terry Herbert

 Were Dogs 
 Domesticated 
 as Dinner? 

A look into the origins of the human-canine connection

Sep 8, 09 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Today, they’re man’s best friend, but dogs may have originally come to humans as their best bet for dinner. Researchers in Sweden examined the DNA of dogs around the world and found that they all seemed to be of the same lineage, pointing to “a single domestication... More »

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food • meat • domestication • anthropology • dog meat • ancient history • dogs

Tech Breathes New Life Into Ancient Manuscripts

Digitization, scanning of crumbling manuscripts preserves history

May 8, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ancient documents have long odds of making it to the present intact, between fires and bugs and the other ravages of time. But today’s technology can tease information even out of charred papyrus scrolls, thanks to CT scans, infrared imaging, and X-ray fluorescence. And from there, digital images can... More »

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technology • artifacts • preservation • digitizing • ancient history • ancient writings

(Newser) - Horses were domesticated 1,000 years earlier than thought, a finding that could prompt a rethinking of ancient human history, the BBC reports. A team from Exeter University found evidence of the use of harness bits on teeth—as well as horse meat and horse milk beverages—in Kazakhstan that... More »

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domestication • horse • Kazakhstan • human evolution • prehistoric • prehistoric mammals • ancient history • Bronze Age

 Google Unearths 
 3D Ancient Rome 

Users can surf city streets of 320 AD

Nov 13, 08 7:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Google Earth is providing users the opportunity to surf the streets of Ancient Rome via a 3D virtual reconstruction of the city as it was in the 4th century. Users can "enter" the Forum, stand in the sands of the Colosseum, or swoop over any of 6,700 buildings... More »

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Google • Internet • Google Earth • Rome • Ancient Rome • culture • Colosseum • forum • Plastico di Roma Antica • ancient history

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