They’re gonna party like it’s 399. Researchers in China discovered the ultimate “aged” brew after happening upon a vessel containing nearly a gallon of still-liquid beer that dated back some 2,200 years, per a study in the Journal of Archaeological Science. “What surprised us even more was the very large volume and the exceptional state … Read more
Researchers in London recently announced that a giant “archaeological puzzle” has been solved, revealing artwork that’s been hidden for 1,800 years. The Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) announced in a June 17 press release that one of its experts successfully reconstructed a collection of Roman wall plaster. The collection of painted ancient plaster is the … Read more
What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great. It consists of “a cotton textile dyed purple which sandwiches one or two layers of a whitish material made mainly of the mineral huntite,” according … Read more