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The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission has identified a papyrus containing a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a Roman-er...
22/04/2026

The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission has identified a papyrus containing a fragment of Homer’s Iliad inside a Roman-era tomb dating to approximately 1,600 years ago, in the Egyptian town of Al Bahnasa, ancient Oxyrhynchus. The discovery is exceptional: it is the first time in the history of archaeology that a Greek literary text has been found deliberately incorporated into the mummification process.

The text was identified as belonging to the catalogue of ships in Book II of Homer’s Iliad — the famous passage listing the Greek forces before Troy — one of the most iconic texts in Western literature.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/the-oxyrhynchus-archaeological-mission-has-found-homers-iliad-inside-a-roman-era-mummy-tomb/

A recently published study shows a reexamination of ancient human migratory routes from Africa, where Homo sapiens first...
26/07/2025

A recently published study shows a reexamination of ancient human migratory routes from Africa, where Homo sapiens first evolved, based on a newly improved glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) model of historical sea levels along with DNA and archaeological data.

An improved simulation of ancient sea levels can reveal how melting glaciers — continuing long after the Last Glacial Maximum — may have transformed migration pathways and shaped the rise of civilizations in Africa.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/a-reexamination-of-ancient-human-migration-routes-out-of-africa/

Archaeological evidence largely shows that the arrival of farming in various cultures around the world transformed socie...
26/07/2025

Archaeological evidence largely shows that the arrival of farming in various cultures around the world transformed society, but new evidence from cooking pot residue in prehistoric Japan shows that culinary traditions were largely unaffected despite the uptake of farmed produce.

The researchers highlight that this perspective from history shows us that not all technological developments progress society at the same rate, and some cultural practices hold steady, in some cases for centuries.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/dispersal-of-millet-and-rice-agriculture-from-korea-to-japan-and-unaffected-culinary-traditions/

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU’s Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had ...
01/07/2025

In the course of a collaboration with the University of Baghdad, LMU’s Enrique Jiménez has rediscovered a text that had been lost for a thousand years.

“It’s a fascinating hymn that describes Babylon in all its majesty and gives insights into the lives of its inhabitants, male and female.”

Babylon was founded in Mesopotamia around 2000 BCE. Once the largest city in the world, it was a cultural metropolis in which works were written that form part of our global literary heritage today.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/hymn-to-babylon-discovered/

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led...
11/06/2025

Pigs have long been known, sometimes celebrated, as among the most intelligent of farm animals. Now, a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence that pigs were first domesticated from wild boars in South China approximately 8,000 years ago.

China has long been considered one of the locations for original pig domestication but tracking the initial process has always been challenging. The study is the first to find that pigs were eating humans' cooked foods and waste.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/evidence-that-the-domestication-of-pigs-from-wild-boars-occurred-in-south-china/

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. H...
24/05/2025

Archaeologist Greer Jarrett at Lund University in Sweden has been sailing in the footsteps of Vikings for three years. He can now show that the Vikings sailed farther away from Scandinavia, and took routes farther from land, than was previously believed to have been possible. In his latest study, he has found evidence of a decentralised network of ports, located on islands and peninsulas, which probably played a central role in trade and travel in the Viking era.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/vikings-sailed-farther-away-from-scandinavia-and-took-routes-farther-from-land/

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of ...
15/05/2025

A team from Heidelberg University excavating in Iraq made a spectacular find: In the throne room of the North Palace of King Ashurbanipal in the ancient city of Nineveh, the archaeologists discovered large portions of a monumental relief that depicts the ruler of the Assyrian empire from the seventh century BC along with two important deities and other figures. The relief was carved on a massive stone slab 5.5 meters long and three meters high and weighing approximately 12 tons. The find is extraordinary for the researchers not only for its size, but also for the scenes depicted.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/a-monumental-relief-in-the-throne-room-of-the-north-palace-of-ashurbanipal/

The town of Schöningen in Lower Saxony in Germany is world-renowned in archaeology: the most impressive arsenal of hunti...
15/05/2025

The town of Schöningen in Lower Saxony in Germany is world-renowned in archaeology: the most impressive arsenal of hunting weapons preserved from the Palaeolithic period was uncovered here. In recognition of the site's importance for understanding the evolution of human hunting skills, the "paläon" research museum was established here in 2013. Together with geo- and environmental scientists with a wide range of expertise, archaeologists from the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA) and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now, for the first time, presented age data on finds from the so-called Spear Horizon.

Also involved in the field work were scientists from the JGU Institute of Geography. After an earlier correction of the age of the famous hunting spears from 400,000 to 300,000 years, the new data show that the age of the Spear Horizon must be revised again by around 100,000 years to an age of 200,000 years. The researchers recently published their results in Science Advances.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/dating-of-schoningen-spears-revised-to-200000-years/

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifyi...
28/03/2025

For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary fortress city in the 19th century. In addition, the researchers from the Universities of Tübingen, Bonn and Jena found that not only members of the Trojan elite but the common people too drank wine. Their findings are now being published in the April edition of the American Journal of Archaeology.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/even-the-common-people-drank-wine-in-troy/

Researchers have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-soc...
18/03/2025

Researchers have identified the economic and political borders separating El Argar, considered to be the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, from its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbours some 4,000 years ago. These communities, with less centralised social structures, maintained complex relations with the Argaric culture. The study, based on an innovative analysis of pottery production and circulation, opens the door to identifying similar border dynamics in other European societies contemporary to El Argar, and understand how the first states were formed in prehistory.

Read more on ClassiCult: https://www.classicult.it/en/the-frontiers-of-el-argar-southeast-iberian-bronze-age-communities-identified/

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