Archaeological excavations being carried out in the area of Bathonea (ancient Greek city), near Lake Küçükçekmece some 20 kilometers west of Istanbul, have recently brought to light a port settlement believed to be the Viking quarter of Constantinople. According to the Polish archaeologist Blaze
If Asterix and Obelix had been real characters they would have spoken a language other than French, which is a Romance language derived from Latin. Nor would they have spoken Breton , because this Celtic language was brought to Armorica (present-day French Brittany) during the Middle Ages by emigran
A charred Hebrew scroll discovered in Ein-Gedi, on the shores of the Dead Sea, has just been decrypted using technology. The virtual unrolling of the En-Gedi manuscript. A new 3D digital imaging technique has revealed the oldest version of an Old Testament manuscript, dating back at least fifteen
An inscription, recently discovered in a house exhumed in the new area of Pompeii excavations, confirms that the destruction of the ancient city would not have taken place in August, but two months later, on October 24, 79. An inscription found on a wall in Pompeii puts back the date of the erup