The medieval history we study is mostly that of the elite people of the time, because they were literate enough to leave records, or powerful enough to hire someone to leave records. We don’t know nearly enough abo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/07/13/Medieval-Graffiti/It's time to punch the timeclock and head out because it's beer o'clock. Here's a record of the earliest known such time. It's a cuniform tablet that is 5,000 years old.Archaeologists found it at Uruk (you know, from Sta...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/28/5000-Year-Old-Paystub-Shows-Workers-Paid-in-Beer/(Photo: City Council of Tomares/AP)Construction workers in Tomares, Spain were laying pipe when they found 19 amphorae (ceramic jars) containing 1,300 pounds of bronze and silver coins that date back to 4th Century A.D....
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/30/Construction-Workers-Find-Over-Half-a-Ton-of-Roman-Coins/[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR3FPplcJGg](Video Link)During World War I, British Army officer T.E. Lawrence helped lead an Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. After the war, he wrote about his extraordinary explo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/04/10/Bullet-Found-in-the-Desert-Verifies-a-Tale-of-Lawrence-of-Arabia/The following article is from Uncle John’s F... ...rld, and a whole new field of study— aerial archaeology — was born. The field has expanded exponenti... ...chnology, and today is considered a major part of archaeology in general. And while it is most often used to ex... ...BIG CIRCLES In 1...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/21/Aerial-Archaeology/When archaeologists uncover historical artifacts t... ...share with the world.But dedicating your life to archaeology means sometimes you dig up King Tut's mummified e...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/21/Six-Of-The-Most-Embarrassing-Historical-Artifacts-Ever-Discovered/(Photo: J. Paul Getty Museum)Internet conspiracy theorists are buzzing with excitement about a grave sculpture dating back to about 100 BC, probably from the Greek island of Delos. It's been passed around various collect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/08/Ancient-Greek-Sculpture-Shows-a-Woman-Using-a-Laptop-Computer/(Photo: WerDu)Step right up and let me tell you about the latest all-purpose, cure-everything household tool: the horse skull.Colm Moriarty is an Irish archaeologist. When he was a young boy, his aunt’s home was re...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/28/Want-to-Expel-Evil-or-Amplify-Music-in-Your-Home-Try-Horse-Skulls-under-the-Floor/(Images: Chinese Archaeology )Archaeologists excavating a 2,200-year old tomb i... ...e's hoof. Live Science quotes the journal Chinese Archaeology :The prosthetic leg was "made of poplar wood; it h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/18/Archaeologists-Find-Prosthetic-Foot-Shaped-Like-a-Horses-Hoof/Leang Jarie, or “Cave of Fingers,” in the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia has long been known for the stenciled handprints on the walls. But it was only announced in 2014 that the actual age of the paintings...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/01/06/A-Journey-to-the-Oldest-Cave-Paintings-in-the-World/
