Welcome to the 12th episode of History News This Week. Please note that History News This Week will be online every Sunday at 09:30 PM Indian Standard Time i.e. 04:00 PM GMT.
Links to the news items, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below:
Ancient Mayan city dating back 2,000 years unearthed in uncharted Mexican jungle
Cleopatra’s perfume: We now know what the Egyptian queen smelled like
Indian scientists discover ancient ocean in Himalayas
Dambusters anniversary: German residents urge end to tourist visits
Ancient DNA reveals diverse community in 'Lost City of the Incas'
How hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings are revealed by chemical imaging
An Archeological Dig in an Ancient Roman Synagogue in Israel Has Uncovered a ‘Spectacular’ Mosaic Depicting the Story of Samson
5 Minutes On - The New Treasures of Pompeii
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Dan Snow's History Hit
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 012
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 12th episode of History News This Week. Please note that History News This Week will be online every Sunday at 09:30 PM Indian Standard Time i.e. 04:00 PM GMT.
This week, I have seven interesting pieces of news and one small ‘5 Minutes On’ audio clip from the BBC.
1. Ground-breaking archaeological technology has uncovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city dating back to the year 250 AD.
Researchers recently spotted the ancient Maya city using LiDAR. It’s located in the Balamakú ecological reserve on the west side of the Yucatan Peninsula.
2. Researchers have recreated an Egyptian perfume thought to have been worn by Cleopatra. The perfume, called Mendesian, has been described as sweet, spicy, and faintly musky. Cleopatra used perfume to enhance her attractiveness, which she used for her political advantage.
3. Scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, and Niigata University, Japan, have unearthed remnants of an ancient ocean in the Himalayas.
The team found water droplets trapped in mineral deposits dating back approximately 600 million years, and the discovery could provide crucial insights into a significant oxygenation event in Earth's past.
4. Some residents living in the area of Germany targeted in the Dambusters raids have criticised visits by British tourists, as events continued to mark the 80th anniversary of the attack.
An estimated 1,300 people, mostly civilians, were killed in the attack, along with 53 airmen.
5. Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study, published in Science Advances, used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire.
Researchers performed genetic testing on individuals buried at Machu Picchu in order to learn more about the people who lived and worked there.
These residents did not necessarily come from the local area, though it is only in this study that researchers have been able to confirm, with DNA evidence, the diversity of their backgrounds.
6. Hidden details in ancient Egyptian tomb paintings are revealed by chemical imaging.
The walls of ancient Egyptian tombs can teach us much about the lives of the pharaohs and their entourages. Tomb paintings showed the deceased and their immediate family members involved in religious activities, the burial itself, or feasting at banquets and hunting in the Nile marshes.
7. An archeological dig in an ancient Roman Synagogue in Israel has uncovered a ‘spectacular’ mosaic depicting the story of Samson.
The mosaic is of a tiger chasing a wild goat dating back to around 400 A.D.
Coming to the audio clip, it’s from BBC’s ‘5 Minutes On’ titled ‘The New Treasures of Pompeii’ where a major new excavation is taking place.
Latest book release of the week:
‘Elements of Indic Knowledge Systems & Heritage’ by Mohan Raghavan, Harsha Simha M S & Dr. C. R. Ramaswamy is now available for order. The hardbound jacket book costs only Rs. 500/- with free shipping via India Post.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
British historian Dan Snow’s ‘History Hit’ is our this week’s history podcast recommendation. It is a daily podcast which is a sort of free-flowing greatest hits of history, bounding cheerily from one major event to the next as Snow’s whims take him.
I will provide links to all the news items, book, podcast mentioned above in the show notes. Please feel free to check them out.
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