Welcome to the 14th 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, articles, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below:
Strange, 300,000-year-old jawbone unearthed in China may come from vanished human lineage
Largest-ever genetic family tree reconstructed for Neolithic people in France using ancient DNA
'Lost' 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village discovered in the heart of Mexico City
Missing 'body' of ice age animal carving finally found — but nobody knows what the animal is
Bronze Age Pyramid Discovered in Kazakhstan
Greece Will Curb Rampant Tourism at the Acropolis to Protect It Against Damage and Overcrowding
Sanskrit Inscription of King Jayavarma is found in Cambodia
What did Cleopatra, Egypt's last pharaoh, really look like?
30 lost burials archaeologists are still searching for
What are the origins of the Nazi swastika?
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History podcast recommendation of the week:
Revisionist History
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 014
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 14th 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 news items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by three great articles. Let’s start!
1. Anthropologists in China have unearthed fragments of a lower jaw that may have belonged to an unknown human lineage.
The bone, which is around 300,000 years old, belonged to a young teenager and features a unique mosaic of ancient and modern traits, according to a new study.
2. Using ancient DNA, archaeologists in France have pieced together two elaborate Neolithic family trees that span multiple generations, making them the largest ancestral human record ever reconstructed.
3. Archeologists have unearthed the lost remains of a Teotihuacan village, including human burials, in the heart of Mexico City.
Excavations revealed three human burials, as well as ceramics and architectural structures from a settlement that existed around A.D. 450 to 650.
4. Missing 'body' of ice age animal carving finally found — but nobody knows what the animal is.
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the missing piece of an ice age carving deep in a cave. But the new addition of the ivory carving, originally thought to depict a horse, has actually complicated matters: Now, researchers aren't sure if it portrays a cave lion or a cave bear.
5. Digging into the tan-brown soil of Kazakhstan, a rock-hewn structure began to reemerge. The “sophisticated” — and sizable — pyramid had gone overlooked for years. But not anymore.
Archaeologists were excavating part of the Kyrykungir monumental complex in Toktamys when they uncovered a “large” steppe pyramid. The pyramid is 4,000 years old and dates to the Bronze Age, archaeologists said. It has six sides, each measuring about 42 feet long.
6. As throngs of summer tourists descend on Greece, the country has decided to limit the number of visitors to its most popular archaeological site, the Acropolis, to 20,000 guests per day to protect it against damage and overcrowding.
7. Sanskrit Inscription of King Jayavarman is found in Cambodia.
Inscriptions of Jayavarman I are engraved on the (both side of the) slab found in the border area of Vietnam and Cambodia in Southeast Asia.
Now, coming to the three articles:
1. What did Cleopatra, Egypt's last pharaoh, really look like?
Her face has been immortalized on a handful of artifacts from the ancient world, including coins and a relief. Perhaps the best known depiction of her is a relief at Dendera temple in Egypt that shows her alongside her son Caesarion.
But despite these ancient depictions, we actually know very little about what the ancient world's most powerful woman looked like. In recent years, that controversy has centered on a contentious topic: What color was Cleopatra's skin?
2. 30 lost burials of famous people archaeologists are still searching for
3. The swastika symbol is now irredeemably tainted by its use by the Nazis in World War II. But it is also one of the oldest symbols in the world and, for most of history, it's had entirely different meanings. So what are the origins of the swastika, and how has its meaning changed over time?
Latest book release of the week:
‘Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy Land’ written by Tamar Novick is an innovative historical analysis of the intersection of religion and technology in making the modern state, focusing on bodily production and reproduction across the human-animal divide.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘Revisionist History’ is Malcolm Gladwell’s journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past — an event, a person, an idea, even a song — and asks whether we got it right the first time. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.
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