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Beyond Neptune, Icy Worlds Kept a 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Secret Nobody Expected
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (698+ words) The results, published in two companion papers in The Astronomical Journal, deliver a genuine surprise: these tiny worlds are far less common than planet-formation models predicted, and their surfaces still carry the chemical fingerprints of the solar system’s infancy — despite…...
An Egyptian Papyrus from 2000 Years Ago Reveals How Much the Roman Poet Who Inspired Karl Marx Copied Greece
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (748+ words) A papyrus that had gone unexamined for decades in a Cairo archive has made it possible to demonstrate, for the first time with solid textual evidence, to what extent the Roman poet Lucretius copied a Greek philosopher who lived four…...
All Lions Belonged to the Emperor — And Rome Had the Paperwork to Prove It
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (364+ words) A new study of two overlooked Roman laws reveals the military supply chain — and the bureaucratic headaches — behind the empire's most popular form of entertainment: animal spectacles. Picture the Colosseum, and the image that comes to mind is almost always…...
Archaeologists Unveil the Hidden City of Nimrud, the Ancient Assyrian Capital Forgotten for 180 Years
1+ week, 5+ day ago (711+ words) A project from the University of Udine combines drones, magnetic sensors, and surface surveys to map for the first time the vast lower city of the ancient metropolis, where the non-elite population lived. For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud,…...
The back cover of an 8th-century codex hid ten papyri, six of which remain undeciphered because no one knows what language they are written in
3+ week, 1+ day ago (744+ words) In 1919, when someone began to carefully examine the binding of an 8th-century codex preserved in the Chapter Archive of the Cathedral of Barcelona, they discovered that the back cover hid something more than leather and stitches. Beneath the skin, placed…...
Codex Gigas, the largest medieval illuminated manuscript, was created by a single monk who took 30 years to complete it
3+ week, 2+ day ago (733+ words) Legend says that a single man completed the largest medieval book ever made in one night, with the help of the devil, to avoid being walled up alive. Modern paleography confirms part of the story and debunks the rest. The…...
Daorson, the Illyrian capital of the mysterious Daorsi that Rome did not protect despite more than a century of demonstrated loyalty
4+ week, 2+ day ago (786+ words) Here, however, it was not Greeks who lived, but an Illyrian tribe that remained almost unknown until a century ago: the Daorsi. Their capital, Daorson, was for two and a half centuries the most powerful city in the Neretva basin,…...