Organic materials contained in intact pottery from the tomb of the royal architect Kha and his wife Merit (18th th dynasty), could be directly analyzed. What better way to identify what these two high-ranking characters had taken on their journey of eternity. Papyrus of the Book of the Dead found
Making a list of the most important archaeological discoveries of the last decade is complicated, whatever the country, region or place in the world chosen. But in Greece above all, due to the abundance and proliferation of finds, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages. Therefore, what better than to go
In September 2021, volunteer archaeologist Daniel Lüdin found a vessel containing 1,290 coins from the 4th century AD. near Bubendorf, in a wooded area next to Wildenstein Castle, in northern Switzerland. The discovery and the initial inspection of the find by Archäologie Baselland were doubly surp
A group of researchers from the Max Planck Institute, in Germany, shed light in an educational study on the battery of technologies now available to archaeologists to reconstruct the smells of the past. Science and the Future spoke with Barbara Huber, leading this work. A seated woman pouring perf