Welcome to the 28th 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 items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by two wonderful articles. Let’s start!
Links to the news items, articles, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below:
Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language
Over 3.5 Crore Pages From History Now Available At Click Of A Mouse
Titanic dinner menu sells for £84,000 at auction
'No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art as portrayed in Netflix documentary, researchers argue
Adopt A Heritage 2.0: Big Companies Keen On Holding The Fort
Archaeologists find network of hidden megastructures using satellite imagery
Cult temples and sacrificial pit unearthed at ancient Roman camp in Germany
Power and Populism in Ancient Greek Courts
Orce, Spain: The site of Europe's earliest settlers
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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 028
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 28th 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 items from the world of History and Archaeology followed by two wonderful articles. Let’s start!
1st ─ Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language
Archaeological research in the Middle East is revealing how a long-forgotten ancient civilisation used previously undiscovered linguistics to promote multiculturalism and political stability.
The ground-breaking discoveries are also shedding new light on how early empires functioned.
Ongoing excavations in Turkey – in the ruins of the ancient capital of the Hittite empire – are yielding remarkable evidence that the imperial civil service included entire departments fully or partly dedicated to researching the religions of subject peoples.
2nd ─ Over 3.5 Crore Pages From History Now Available At Click Of A Mouse
The National Archives of India, custodians of some of the country’s most valuable manuscripts and historical records, has digitalised over 3.5 crore pages, among them the private papers of the nation's first president, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
3rd ─ Titanic dinner menu sells for £84,000 at auction
An evening dinner menu for first-class passengers onboard the RMS Titanic has sold for £84,000 at auction.
It lists the dinner - including oysters, beef, spring lamb and mallard duck - served on the evening of 11 April 1912.
4th ─ 'No scientific evidence' that ancient human relative buried dead and carved art as portrayed in Netflix documentary, researchers argue
There's "no convincing scientific evidence" behind the extraordinary claims that the ancient human relative Homo naledi deliberately buried their dead and engraved rocks deep in a South African cave around 300,000 years ago, a group of archaeologists argues in a new commentary.
5th ─ Adopt A Heritage 2.0: Big Companies Keen On Holding The Fort
Two months after launching its innovative scheme, Adopt A Heritage 2.0, the Archaeological Survey of India has received queries from nearly a dozen corporate houses about supporting monuments, including the Red Fort, Humayun’s Tomb, Qutub Minar and Agrasen ki Baoli in Delhi, the Hampi museum, Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh fort, Hyderabad’s Golconda fort and the Chausath Yogini temple in Odisha.
6th ─ Archaeologists find network of hidden megastructures using satellite imagery
A study analysing satellite imagery and aerial photography was conducted by researchers from University College Dublin, working with colleagues from Serbia and Slovenia. The team found over 100 previously unknown sites belonging to a complex society in the landscape of Central Europe’s south Carpathian Basin.
7th ─ Cult temples and sacrificial pit unearthed at ancient Roman camp in Germany
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of two Roman temples and a sacrificial pit in Germany.
The building remnants, located at the site of a former Roman camp known as Haltern in northwestern Germany, are the first known instances of temples found at a Roman military site, according to a translated statement.
Now, coming to the two articles:
1st ─ Power and Populism in Ancient Greek Courts
In ancient Greece the ‘least dangerous’ branch of government – the courts – wielded serious political power.
2nd ─ In Pictures - The discovery rewriting Europe's past
A series of discoveries is revealing that Europe's first inhabitants settled in a remote and rugged corner of Granada some 1.4 million years ago.
Latest history book release of the week:
‘The Explorers Club: A Visual Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Exploration’ edited by Jeff Wilser is our pick of the week.
Discover the extraordinary history and thrilling frontiers of exploration with this gorgeously illustrated guide from The Explorers Club, the esteemed home of the world’s most prominent explorers.
The discovery of the North and South Poles. The summiting of Everest. The moon landing. The (largely unknown) birth of climate change science. These are just some of the stories from The Explorers Club, the organization that, since its inception in 1904, has pushed the envelope of human curiosity.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine’ hosted by Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy is our pick of the week.
If you have a strong stomach, want a funny podcast, and love a medical marvel or two, then Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy’s podcast should be on your list. The two take a tour through the weird and wacky history of medicine. Dr. McElroy revels in the oddities, while her husband, popular podcast host Justin McElroy, injects plenty of humor into this (often gross) narrative.
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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