This marble tablet weighs 115 pounds and measures two feet tall. Sotheby’s The oldest-known stone tablet featuring an inscription of the Ten Commandments is going to auction, where experts think it could sell for between $1 million and $2 million. The 1,500-year-old […]
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October 29, 2024 by Gil Vilarinho One of our 2023 Archaeology of Portugal Fellowship winners, Gil Vilarinho, provides us with an update: As Roman stone exploitation was not hitherto subject to any systematic analysis in what is now Portugal, our
Astronomers have analyzed the largest map of the universe — and found that Einstein was right yet again about gravity, according to a series of new studies. The analysis, which looked at nearly 6 million galaxies and quasars spanning 11
Books Buffalo Bill: Scout, Showman, Visionary (2010, by Steve Friesen) This is my biography of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody, written when I was the director of the Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave. What sets it apart is a wealth
Brendan Gillis, AHA’s director of teaching and learning, and I will be attending the annual meeting of the National Council for the Social Studies in Boston from November 20–23. We can be reached through the conference app or by email beforehand. Brendan
The National Archives, in partnership with Forces War Records, the leading military family history website from Ancestry®, has launched a digital collection of Royal Flying Corps and successors: World War One Gallantry Award Medal Index Cards. The collection contains almost
Politics and Society in Mid Thirteenth-Century England: The Troubled Realm By Peter Coss Oxford University PressISBN: 9780198924289 The English government under King Henry III faced significant political turmoil as tensions between the crown and the nobility escalated. This book delves
The team used A.I. algorithms to combine more than 400,000 photos into a comprehensive, three-dimensional model of the Catholic church. Microsoft People around the world can now explore St. Peter’s Basilica from the comfort of home via a 3D replica
Episode 120 (The Prairie Chicken in Wisconsin: Highlights of a Study of Counts, Behavior, Turnover, Movement, and Habitat) The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia, from PRX, a curated network of extraordinary, story-driven shows. Music We move between three
