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The "Eleusis Amphora," dating to roughly 670–650 BC and containing the remains of a ten-year-old child, was no common storage ...
Scientists have used mass spectrometry to analyze bitumen samples from an ancient Greek amphora found on the Taman peninsula. Judging by the level of oxygen in the sample, they managed to accurately ...
The amphora discovered, filled with the remains of small fishes. Credit: Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi / Fiziade Project A fascinating archaeological discovery has come to ...
What it tells us about the past: Centuries before runners lined up on the track to compete in the Olympic Games, athletes participated in the Panathenaic Games, an athletic festival held every four ...
Painted over the enormous midsection of the Dipylon amphora—a nearly 2,800-year-old clay vase from Greece—silhouetted figures surround a corpse in a funeral scene. Intricate geometric patterns zig and ...
Russian scientists have identified the components of the oldest bitumen sample to be found in an ancient vase and made an accurate estimate of its age. In their article in the Journal of Mass ...
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