Welcome to the 16th 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:
Iron Age in India began over 4,000 years ago. Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladumparai revises research
Website uncovering Bath Abbey's lost memorials launches
How the biggest-ever Roman treasure trove was unearthed in a sleepy UK village
Roman Caistor: Veterans help uncover new Iron Age evidence
'Like a bomb has gone off': Ancient humans may have set megafires that turned Southern California into an uninhabitable 'wasteland' for 1,000 years
Did the ancient Egyptians really marry their siblings and children?
Neanderthals: Our extinct human relatives
Pompeii is Found
Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery 'wasn't that bad'
Links to order 'The Economy of the Maratha Kingdom c. 1595–1707' below:
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History podcast recommendation of the week:
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 016
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 16th 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 five interesting pieces of news items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by four great articles. Let’s start!
1st ─ Iron Age in India began over 4,000 years ago. Tamil Nadu’s Mayiladumparai revises research.
Discoveries from Mayiladumparai and a few sites in Telangana urge us to reassess a long-running debate on the genesis and spread of iron throughout the subcontinent.
2nd ─ A website uncovering the unknown stories connected to memorials at an historic abbey has been launched.
Mostly funded by the National Lottery Heritage fund, the Bath Abbey memorials website which can be accessed at https://www.bathabbeymemorials.org.uk/ features the stories of around 1,500 memorials which can be found on the site's floors and walls.
It is a result of eight years of research by archivists and volunteers.
3rd ─ How the biggest-ever Roman treasure trove was unearthed in a sleepy UK village.
Tens of thousands of gold Roman coins were found purely by chance in a seemingly ordinary Suffolk field.
4th ─ Military veterans have joined a community dig inspired by a therapy programme that helps injured and sick former service personnel.
The Roman settlement at Caistor, Norfolk, is excavated every summer by a mix of locals and archaeologists.
This year seven veterans are taking part after hearing about a therapy project called Operation Nightingale.
5th ─ Ice-age humans may have set megafires in what is now Southern California, making the region uninhabitable for a thousand years, new research suggests. These massive wildfires may have been a major contributor to the extinction of megafauna in the area, fossils from the La Brea tar pits suggest.
Now, coming to the four articles.
1st ─ It's often said that ancient Egyptian royalty married within the family, with pharaohs marrying siblings and sometimes even children. But is there any truth to the claim?
The answer is yes: People in ancient Egypt — both royal and nonroyal — married their relatives, but the details vary according to the time period and class.
2nd ─ The Neanderthals, our closest human relatives, roamed the Earth hundreds of thousands of years ago. Although they are long extinct, their genes are still present in modern human DNA.
This article looks at the fundamental questions about who Neanderthals were, what they ate, when they mated with humans and what life was like for this lost human lineage.
3rd ─ Pompeii wasn’t identified until 20th August, 1763. Its value was as a source of antiquities for Charles VII, king of Naples.
4th ─ It is an article on dismantling the myth that ancient slavery 'wasn't that bad'.
Latest book release of the week:
‘The Economy of the Maratha Kingdom c. 1595–1707’ written by Dr. Kedar Phalke, in which, through his in-depth research, the author provides an excellent account of the Maratha Kingdom’s economy, administration and social structure in seventeenth-century India.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘Stuff You Missed in History Class’ hosted by Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey focuses on lesser-known people and events to teach you the things you (probably) didn’t learn about in school.
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