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arkeonews.net > a-new-type-of-4600-year-old-board-game-discovered-at-irans-burnt-city

A New Type of 4,600-Year-Old Board Game Discovered at Iran???s Burnt City

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1048+ words) Archaeologists working at Shahr-i Sokhta, the Bronze Age settlement better known as Iran’s Burnt City, have discovered a new type of 4,600-year-old board game, adding an unexpected chapter to a site already famous for preserving one of the ancient world’s…...

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arkeonews.net > did-assyrians-invent-the-telescope-2700-years-ago-the-mystery-of-the-nimrud-lens

Did Assyrians Invent the Telescope 2,700 Years Ago? The Mystery of the Nimrud Lens

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1045+ words) The possibility sounds extraordinary. The earliest documented telescope is generally associated with the Netherlands in 1608, when spectacle maker Hans Lippershey sought a patent for an instrument that made distant objects appear closer. Yet the Nimrud Lens was manufactured between about…...