ancient history
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How Ancient Amulets Tried to Ward Off Disease
Throughout antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Egypt and today’s Middle East, people believed that misfortune, including accidents, diseases, and sometimes even death, were caused by external forces. Be they gods or other types of supernatural forces (such as a daimon), people — regardless of faith — sought magical means of protection against them. While medicine…
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Which Historical Figure Was The Mark Zuckerberg Of Their Time?
Purely on the level of physical appearance, Mark Zuckerberg is unprecedented; I doubt he’s ever once heard the phrase “you know who you look like?” unless the follow-up was “an unfinished police sketch left out in the rain.” But if we’re talking about Zuckerberg the man—or, more precisely, the nihilistically expansionist tech mogul—the historical record…
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World’s Oldest Intact Shipwreck Discovered At Bottom Of Black Sea After 2400 Years
A remarkably intact ancient Greek merchant ship from 2400 years ago has been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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Discovery Of 14,000-Year-Old Toast Suggests Bread Can Be Added To Palaeo Diet
Archaeologists have uncovered the earliest evidence of bread-making at a site in northeastern Jordan. Dating back some 14,400 years, the discovery shows that ancient hunter-gatherers were making and eating bread 4000 years before the Neolithic era and the introduction of agriculture. So much for the “Palaeo Diet” actually being a thing.