Archaeology
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Tip o’ the pileus to A.K. Eyma for passing along this item from Leiden University: Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions on pot shards found in Daskyleion (North-West Turkey) as Phrygian and Lydian, and thus proved the presence of the…
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In medias res of a lengthy article in the Henley Standard about a proposed hospital building site: […] An excavation 200m east of the hospital site found chalk foundations of a “substantial” rectangular Roman building and some Roman pottery. A Roman coin was found 180m north of the site. Mr Oram said: “The Roman settlement…
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From Novinite: Bulgarian archaeologists have stumbled upon a unique lion head stone sculpture from the times of the Trojan War. The discovery has been made in the so-called Womb Cave in the Eastern Rhodopes. It was German ornithologists who initially discovered the sculpture, local media inform. They stumbled upon the artifact while studying the behavior…
