Welcome to the 20th 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 twelve interesting pieces of news items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by three great articles. Let’s begin!
Links to the news items, articles, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below:
The Sacred Ensembles of Hoysalas are India’s 42nd UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Zagorochoria, Nestled On Mount Pindos In Epirus Added To UNESCO’s World Heritage List
These ancient whittled logs could be the earliest known wooden structure
A new human species? Mystery surrounds 300,000-year-old fossil
Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile 'dark earth'
Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt found brimming with 'treasures and secrets'
Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in Peru
Turkish Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Long-Rumored Subterranean City Used as a Sanctuary During the Roman Empire
Archaeologists discover previously unknown Indo-European language in Turkey
Bronze Age hexagonal 'pyramid' not like anything 'found before in the Eurasian steppe'
Cave Of Theopetra In Greece Reveals Humans Existed Here 50,000 Years Ago
Tests on ‘alien corpses’ fuel theory they could be REAL after X-rays & CT scans of ‘bodies’ unearth stunning discovery
Articles:
What do Ajanta Caves, Roman cathedrals, Sleeping Buddha of Thailand and the UK’s coat of arms have in common?
The Race to Catch the Last Nazis
A brief history of abortion—from ancient Egyptian herbs to fighting stigma today
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History podcast recommendation of the week:
The History of WWII Podcast
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 020
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 20th 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 twelve interesting pieces of news items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by three great articles. Let’s begin!
1st ─ The Sacred Ensembles of Hoysalas are India’s 42nd UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Sacred Ensembles of the Hoysala — the famed Hoysala temples of Belur, Halebid and Somananthpura in the South Indian state of Karnataka have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list.
2nd ─ The Zagorochoria, Nestled On Mount Pindos In Epirus Added To UNESCO’s World Heritage List
The captivating Zagorochoria, nestled within Mount Pindos in Epirus, Greece, have earned a spot on UNESCO's World Heritage List, underscoring the architectural heritage of this captivating region.
3rd ─ Archaeologists in Zambia discover oldest wooden structure in the world, dating to 476,000 years ago
Some 500,000 years ago in central Africa, ancient human relatives chopped down trees and transformed the wood into digging tools, wedges and what might just be the world’s earliest-known wooden structure.
Now, remnants of this ancient woodworking have been found at an archaeological site in Zambia called Kalambo Falls. Researchers can’t definitively identify the possible structure, which might have been a raised platform, a shelter or something else entirely. Whatever it was, it pre-dates the evolution of Homo sapiens by more than 100,000 years, hinting that hominins that lived long before our own species were already working wood.
4th ─ A new human species? Mystery surrounds 300,000-year-old fossil
A fossilized jawbone discovered in a cave in eastern China bears a curious mix of ancient and modern features, according to a detailed analysis that compares it with dozens of other human specimens. The finding, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, indicates that the 300,000-year-old bone could have belonged to an as-yet undescribed species of archaic human.
5th ─ Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile 'dark earth'
A new study suggests patches of fertile soil in the Amazon, known as dark earth, were intentionally produced by ancient Amazonians as a way to improve the soil and sustain large and complex societies.
6th ─ Sunken temple and sanctuary from ancient Egypt found brimming with 'treasures and secrets'
While exploring a canal off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, underwater archaeologists discovered a sunken temple and a sanctuary brimming with ancient treasures linked to the god Amun and the goddess Aphrodite, respectively.
7th ─ Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while expanding the gas network in Peru
Some archaeologists describe Peru's capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That's what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales.
8th ─ Turkish Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Long-Rumored Subterranean City Used as a Sanctuary During the Roman Empire
Turkey has long been known for its labyrinth of underground cities, and archaeologists now believe that they may have discovered the largest one yet. Sarayini, which is thought to date back to the 8th century, was once used as a shelter by local Christians who were persecuted by the Roman empire and local Muslim leaders and needed to protect themselves from raids.
9th ─ Archaeologists discover previously unknown Indo-European language in Turkey
Archaeologists conducting excavations at Boğazköy-Hattusha have discovered a previously unknown Indo-European language inscribed on a cuneiform tablet.
Hattusha was the capital of the Hittite Empire, an ancient Anatolian people who established an empire covering Anatolia, northern Levant, and Upper Mesopotamia.
10th ─ Bronze Age hexagonal 'pyramid' not like anything 'found before in the Eurasian steppe'
Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a 3,800-year-old hexagon-shaped structure that they describe as a "pyramid." The maze-like structure is not as tall as Egypt's monuments, but currently stands about 10 feet (i.e. 3 meters) high and likely served as an elite burial site.
The discovery is not like anything "found before in the Eurasian steppe," according to a statement from Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan.
11th ─ Cave Of Theopetra In Greece Reveals Humans Existed Here 50,000 Years Ago
Known for many pre-historic secrets, the Cave of Theopetra is an archaeological site located in Meteora, in the central Greek region of Thessaly, Greece. Latest radiocarbon evidence has shown that humans existed in this place at least 50,000 years ago. Because of the archaeological excavations that have been carried out over the years, it was revealed that the Theopetra Cave was occupied by humans as early as 130,000 years ago.
12th ─ Tests on ‘alien corpses’ fuel theory they could be REAL after X-rays & CT scans of ‘bodies’ unearth stunning discovery
The results are in direct conflict with earlier claims that they were artificially made using animal or human bones.
Now, coming to the three articles:
1st ─ What do Ajanta Caves, Roman cathedrals, Sleeping Buddha of Thailand and the UK’s coat of arms have in common?
How Maharashtra's Ajanta Caves came to inspire iconic images around the world. Thanks to the UNESCO World Heritage site designation and the efforts of the state government, the caves stand entrenched on Earth.
2nd ─ The Race to Catch the Last Nazis
A lifetime after the Holocaust, a few of its perpetrators somehow remain at large. And the German detectives tasked with bringing them to justice are making a final desperate push to hunt them down.
3rd ─ A brief history of abortion—from ancient Egyptian herbs to fighting stigma today
You might be forgiven for thinking of abortion as a particularly modern phenomenon. But there's plenty of evidence to suggest that abortion has been a constant feature of social life for thousands of years. The history of abortion is often told as a legal one, yet abortion has continued regardless of, perhaps even in spite of, legal regulation.
The need to regulate fertility before or after sex has existed for as long as pregnancy has. The Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Ebers is often seen as some of the first written evidence of abortion practice.
Dating back to 1600 BC, the text describes methods by which "the woman empties out the conceived in the first, second or third time period", recommending herbs, vaginal douches and suppositories. Similar methods of inducing abortion were recorded, although not recommended, by Hippocrates around the fourth century BC.
Latest history book release of the week:
‘Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories’ written by Mike Rothschild is our pick of the week.
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Rothschilds—became a lightning rod for the conspiracy theories of the last two centuries, and how those theories are still very much alive today.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘The History of World War II Podcast’ hosted by Ray Harris, Jr is our pick of the week.
If you’re a World War II buff, you won’t find a more in-depth look than Ray Harris, Jr.’s incredible podcast, which has been ongoing since 2012.
I will provide links to all the news items, articles, book and podcast mentioned above in the show notes. Please feel free to check them out.
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