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Scientists have used mass spectrometry to analyze bitumen samples from an ancient Greek amphora found on the Taman peninsula. Judging by the level of oxygen in the sample, they managed to accurately ...
What it tells us about the past: Centuries before runners lined up on the track to compete in the Olympic Games, athletes participated in the Panathenaic Games, an athletic festival held every four ...
The amphora discovered, filled with the remains of small fishes. Credit: Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi / Fiziade Project A fascinating archaeological discovery has come to ...
Date: c. 700 B.C.E. Origin: Boeotia (central Greece) Description: Large jug with flat base, ovoid body, tall cylindrical neck, and horizontal mouth decorated with applied snakes. Two handles on either ...
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Five ancient shipwrecks and a lost trade route turned up off a single Greek island
Archaeologists have identified five ancient shipwrecks in the waters surrounding Levitha, a small and sparsely inhabited Greek island in the eastern Aegean. The wrecks, whose cargoes include amphorae ...
Chemists have confirmed that the substance used to hermetically seal an amphora found among remains at Lixus, in Morocco, was pine resin. The scientists also studied the metallic fragments inside the ...
Russian scientists have identified the components of the oldest bitumen sample to be found in an ancient vase and have made an accurate estimate of its age. In an article in the Journal of Mass ...
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