#archaeology

Stories tagged “archaeology” in the Weird Science History archive — 22 stories connected by this topic.

• The Ancient Greek Robot Maid Who Poured Your Wine — and Then Quietly Watered It Down
• The Colonel Who Opened the Great Pyramid With Gunpowder — and Got His Drill Stuck in the Sphinx
• The First Roman Letter Found Near Hadrian's Wall Was About Socks and Underpants
• The 3,900-Year-Old Fart Joke Scribes Copied in School
• From Baltimore Sewer Gas to the Shroud of Turin: A Short History of Radiocarbon Dating
• The Opera Costume Designer Who Put Horns on the Vikings
• The 5,700-Year-Old Chewing Gum That Held an Entire Human Genome
• The Angry Customer Complaint That Survived 3,750 Years
• The 2,000-Year-Old Computer Found in a Shipwreck
• The 3,000-Year-Old Pants That Were Invented for Horseback Riding
• The Baghdad Battery: The 2,000-Year-Old 'Battery' That Probably Never Held a Charge
• The Buried Army Found by Farmers Digging a Well
• The Circus Strongman Who Found Egypt's Greatest Tomb
• The Copper Tools That Scraped History Off the Parthenon Marbles
• The Library Burned by Vesuvius That AI Is Finally Reading
• The Petrified Giant That Was a Fake of a Fake
• Piltdown Man: The Fake Fossil That Fooled Science for 40 Years
• The Roman Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks
• The Runaway Goat That Led to the Dead Sea Scrolls
• The Stone Age Skull Surgery With a Higher Survival Rate Than the Civil War's
• The Teenagers Who Found a 20,000-Year-Old Art Gallery
• Göbekli Tepe: The Temple Built Before Farming, Writing, or the Wheel

Related topics: #ancient technology #British Museum #ancient DNA #Egyptology #hoaxes #Neolithic #19th century #astronomy