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Archaeological discoveries

  • Charanphen Farm

    Terrain General condition Archaeological sites are in the area of ​​sugar cane plantations. which is planted on a flat area with some cant This ranch is owned by Mr. Phichit. snooty Height above mean sea level 13-14 meters Waterway On the north side of the source there is a trough Nong Tad Sak. th

  • Ban Pong Manao

    Terrain undulating slopes General Condition Ban Pong Manao Archaeological Site The area is characterized by natural mounds that have been deposited up from both nature and human activities from the past to the present. The current mound is about 400 meters long. and the widest part is about 200 met

  • Grandfather Chao Saming Phrai Fort

    Terrain General condition It is located in a plain on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River. At the end of the Chao Phraya River above the Gulf of Thailand Also known as estuary due to the southern seashore, it has been influenced by the flood waters. The fort is currently inside the Rajaprach

  • hump persimmon

    Terrain General Condition Khok Plub Archaeological Site is a large mound on an area of ​​​​9 rai. It has an oval shape. Long along the north - south (or northeast - southwest) this mound about 4 meters higher than the surrounding area It was originally an abandoned mound until 1977 when an irrigati

  • Moray, the place where the Incas carried out agricultural experiments

    The Sacred Valley of the Incas, located in the Peruvian Andes at an average altitude of 2,800 meters and crossed by the Urubamba River, is home to numerous archaeological sites, cities and towns dating back to the Inca era that extend to the foot of Machu Picchu . One of those places is Moray, whic

  • Researchers reconstruct how millet spread from East Asia to Central Europe in the Bronze Age

    People already lived in a globalized world 3,500 years ago. This is the conclusion of researchers from the University of Kiel (CAU). They have been able to reconstruct in detail the diffusion of common millet and have discovered that the grain was already widespread from Asia to Central Europe at th

  • They discover a Viking shipyard in a lake in Sweden

    Archaeologists from the Stockholm University Archaeological Research Laboratory have located a unique shipyard from the Viking Age at the Birka site on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren. The discovery calls into question previous theories about how maritime activities were organized in the Viking

  • Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago in the Jordan Valley, the oldest evidence of fruit tree cultivation

    A joint study by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University uncovered the first evidence of domestication of a fruit tree. The researchers analyzed traces of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf, in the Jordan Valley, and determined that they came from olive trees. Sinc

  • The bodies of the fallen soldiers in the battle of Waterloo could be sold as fertilizer

    Were the bones of fallen soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo sold as compost? Thousands of soldiers died on the Belgian battlefield, yet very few human remains have been found. Now a new study by Professor Tony Pollard of the University of Glasgow suggests thats the most likely outcome of the matter

  • They solve the mystery of the anonymous god of Palmyra

    Polish archaeologist Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider has unveiled a centuries-old mystery after identifying more than 200 inscriptions addressed to an anonymous god in the ancient city of Palmyra, in present-day Syria, which was the capital of the empire of the same name under the famous queen Zenobia,

  • They find in Pompeii the remains of a turtle from 2,000 years ago and its only egg

    Archaeologists found the remains of a tortoise, with its fragile egg encased in its shell, in a shop on Via dellAbbondanza in the Pompeii city site. The finding is proof of the vast ecosystem of Pompeii, made up of natural and not only human traces, and a precious archaeological clue to the last pha

  • Pompey's Trophy marking the junction of the Via Augusta and the Via Domitia in the Pyrenees

    At the eastern end of the Pyrenees, the current border between France and Spain has the Pertús Pass as its main road crossing point between the French department of the Pyrenees Orientales and the province of Girona. However, in ancient times (and until the 17th century), access was made a little f

  • Researchers find evidence of use of fire from 800,000 years ago

    Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science reveal in an article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences an advanced and innovative method they have developed and used to detect non-visual traces of fire dating back at least 800,000 years, one of the earliest known evidence

  • The Tombs of the Lions of Dedan

    Every history and archeology buff knows who the Nabataeans were, the builders of the spectacular Petra in present-day Jordan, whose kingdom was conquered by the Romans in 106 AD. A little further south, already in the Arabian Peninsula, there was another powerful and older kingdom that, curiously,

  • Kerkouane, the only Carthaginian city unmodified by later cultures, whose true name is unknown

    In 1952 the French archaeologist Pierre Cintas, a specialist in Punic archeology and famous, among other things, for having discovered the founding deposit of Carthage, together with Charles Saumagne, discovered the ruins of a Carthaginian city in northeastern Tunisia, near Cape Bon . The following

  • Hadrumeto, the Punic city that supported Rome in the war against Carthage

    If you take a look at the map of the Third Punic War, which represents the territories dominated by the contenders, three large blocks will be observed:the Roman, the Numidian - an ally of the previous one - and the Carthaginian. But although the latter is shown in a uniform way, in reality it would

  • They find in Germany a strange prehistoric figure that may represent a goddess of water

    It is possible that people worshiped the small statuette as a water deity between 2,800 and 2,500 years ago. Her function as a cult object with a strong connection to water is at least suggested by the place where she was found. Archaeologists discovered the ceramic figure in a prehistoric ravine t

  • Code of Ur-Nammu:the oldest law in history

    Some of the earliest legal codes were formulated in the ancient Middle East. The Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Elamites, Hurrians, Kassites, and Hittites all had their own laws. Among them, the Code of Hammurabi is perhaps the best known, but there have been many earlier codes of law. The firs

  • Reveal the original color and new inscriptions in the temple of Esna in Egypt

    The joint Egyptian-German archaeological mission working on the Temple of Esna succeeded in revealing the inscriptions, images and colors on the temples ceilings and walls, after completing its clean-up work as part of the temples restoration project. Dating from Ptolemaic times, the Esna temple w

  • Arslantepe, the place where the oldest swords in the world were found

    The Arslantepe mound, located by the Tohma River in southeastern present-day Turkey and about 6 kilometers from modern Malatya, was first excavated between 1932 and 1939 by the French archaeologist Louis Delaporte. The site turned out to be the site of the ancient city of Melid. The mound is a tell

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