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Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
3+ week, 6+ day ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...
How Archaeologists Read and Date Ancient Inscriptions
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (572+ words) Epigraphy—the study of inscriptions—connects the writing with the object and the place where it was found. A useful way to understand the process is to follow three different clues: the marks themselves, the language, and the evidence for…...
How Do Archaeologists Date Pottery? Methods Explained
2+ week, 5+ day ago (681+ words) How do archaeologists date pottery? Usually, they do not look at a single shard and read a year from it. A ceramic fragment becomes useful when its shape, clay, decoration, manufacturing technique and archaeological position are compared with other dated…...
How Image Enhancement Reveals Faded Rock Art
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (388+ words) One widely used approach is decorrelation stretch, available to researchers through the DStretch program. A September 8 technology feature traces its connection to remote-sensing methods developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Jon Harman adapted the approach for archaeological imagery in 2005. The…...
How Ancient Coins Reveal Rome’s Economic Connections
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (418+ words) Imagine finding a Roman coin hundreds of miles from the place where it was made. Who carried it there? A soldier, a merchant, or someone whose journey has left no other trace? One coin leaves those questions open. Put thousands…...
Dendrochronology: How Tree Rings Date Ancient Buildings
2+ week, 6+ day ago (475+ words) How does dendrochronology date ancient buildings? By reading the growth history recorded inside wood. In regions where trees respond to changing seasons, each year leaves a pattern of wide and narrow rings. When a wooden beam from an old structure…...
What Is a Megalith? Why Ancient People Built Stone Monuments
1+ week, 6+ day ago (764+ words) What is a megalith? The word comes from Greek roots meaning “large stone,” and archaeologists use it for monuments built with large stones or substantial stone settings. That definition is broad on purpose. A standing stone, a chambered tomb, a…...
Devil’s Arrows: 25-Tonne Stones Hauled 11 Miles
4+ day, 11+ hour ago (448+ words) Prehistoric builders moved the enormous stones of the Devil’s Arrows at least 18 kilometres across Yorkshire, according to new research that identifies where the blocks came from. The finding connects Britain’s tallest surviving prehistoric stone row with Brimham Rocks, rather than…...
Qurayyah Painted Ware: The Bronze Age Pottery That Worked Like a Brand
2+ week, 3+ day ago (644+ words) Qurayyah Painted Ware carried repeatable designs across Bronze Age Arabia. New research suggests that its makers built recognition and demand around a distinctive style more than 3,000 years ago. The comparison does not mean Bronze Age traders had modern advertising departments....
How Do Archaeologists Tell Whether an Ancient Building Was a Home, Shrine, or Workshop? — Curiosmos
1+ week, 2+ day ago (673+ words) An ancient building does not come with a label on the door. When archaeologists uncover walls, they have to work out what people did inside them from the traces left behind. A hearth may suggest cooking, but it can also…...