Tagged archaeology
2 entries under this tag.
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A fan of square holes
A cluster of small quadrangular pits on Pompeii's northern wall, read as the firing signature of an ancient repeating dart-thrower.
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What we put inside the dead
A small register of specific objects deliberately placed on or within human remains, leading to this week's Oxyrhynchus find — an Iliad papyrus laid on a mummy's abdomen.
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