Welcome to the 30th 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 three wonderful articles. Let’s start!
Links to the news items, articles, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below:
Expert recreates mysterious ancient pigment LOST for centuries – and was once worth three times its weight in gold
1,000-year-old skeleton of woman with emptied-out skull buried next to 'husband'
Pre-modern human skeleton found with ‘traces of cannabis’ in world first discovery – and may have been ‘self-medicating’
2,000-year-old coin stash discovered at ancient Buddhist shrine in Pakistan
Hominins Hunted Beavers At Least 400,000 Years Ago, Ancient Bones Reveal
The Lost Years of Jesus
The Real History Behind Empress Joséphine in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’
The 'stan' you've never heard of
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History podcast recommendation of the week:
Real Dictators
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Coming up: History News This Week - Episode: 030
Namaste Friends. My name is 'Shinil Subramanian Payamal' and you are listening to the Historylogy podcast.
Welcome to the 30th 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 three wonderful articles. Let’s start!
1st ─ Expert recreates mysterious ancient pigment LOST for centuries – and was once worth three times its weight in gold
Tyrian purple was one of the most legendary commodities in the ancient world, the reddish-purple natural dye began as a clear fluid produced by sea snails in the Murex family.
2nd ─ 1,000-year-old skeleton of woman with emptied-out skull buried next to 'husband'
During their ongoing excavations near a 1,000-year-old former royal palace built by Roman Emperor Otto the Great in Hefta, Saxony-Anhalt, archaeologists unearthed two skeletons who were "possibly a married couple" according to Oliver Dietrich, an archaeologist with the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin.
3rd ─ Pre-modern human skeleton found with ‘traces of cannabis’ in world first discovery – and may have been ‘self-medicating’
A skeleton containing the first evidence of cannabis in skeletal remains has been discovered.
The remains were originally located in a 17th-century hospital crypt in Milan, Italy. They were investigated as part of a study involving the University of Milan.
4th ─ 2,000-year-old coin stash discovered at ancient Buddhist shrine in Pakistan
Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site of Mohenjo-Daro.
The coins and shrine — known as a stupa — are thought to date from the time of the Kushan Empire, a mainly Buddhist polity that ruled the region from about the second century B.C. until the third century A.D., and conquered the Greco-Bactrian kingdom established in Central Asia by Alexander the Great.
5th ─ Hominins Hunted Beavers At Least 400,000 Years Ago, Ancient Bones Reveal
Archaeologists say they have found cut marks on the bones of two beaver species from the 400,000-year-old hominin open air site of Bilzingsleben in central Germany. Their results demonstrate a greater diversity of prey choice by Middle Pleistocene hominins than commonly acknowledged, and a much deeper history of broad-spectrum subsistence than commonly assumed, already visible in prey choices 400,000 years ago.
Now, coming to the three articles:
1st ─ The Lost Years of Jesus
Did Jesus have a difficult childhood? Was his youth spent in Egypt or England, India or Japan? The four canonical gospels are quiet on his early life, leading some to speculate.
2nd ─ The Real History Behind Empress Joséphine in Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon’
A new Hollywood epic traces Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise and fall through his checkered relationship with his first wife.
3rd ─ The 'stan' you've never heard of
Little known and rarely visited, Karakalpakstan is the largest province in Uzbekistan, but much of it is occupied by barren and inhospitable desert.
Latest history book release of the week:
‘Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth’ written by Charles Allen is our pick of the week.
This is Charles Allen's definitive account of the Aryans, offering a grand sweep of language, mythology, contested histories and conflict. Spanning continents, cultures and societies: from the Russian steppe to the Indus valley, the Iliad to the Mahabharata, Greek to Sanskrit, Putin to Trump, and Müller to Vivekananda, Aryans astonishes with its scope. Allen, true to a style that has endeared him to a legion of admirers, weaves a narrative that is startling and illuminating.
Product of a great investigation and meticulous scholarship, Aryans, Allen's last book, is his crowning achievement and marks the end of an illustrious career.
History podcast recommendation of the week:
‘Real Dictators’ hosted by Paul McGann is our pick of the week.
Real Dictators is the award-winning podcast that explores the hidden lives of history's tyrants. Hosted by Paul McGann, with contributions from eyewitnesses and expert historians.
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