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Chapters:0:00 Introduction0:52 Good and bad apartments1:49 The insulae of Ostia2:41 Helix4:07 The Garden Houses4:56 Decoration5:25 Amenities5:57 Owning and renting6:41 Rent prices7:36 Fire and other hazards8:42 The last insulaeFinding an Apartment in Ancient Rome | 9:44toldinstone | 515K subscribers | 15,768 views | August 27, 2024

A 3,500-year-old jar has been accidentally smashed into pieces by a four-year-old boy during a trip to a museum in Israel. The Hecht Museum in Haifa told the BBC the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC - and was a rare artefact because it was so intact. It had been on display near the entrance of the museum without glass, as the museum believes there is "special charm" in showing archaeological finds "without obstructions". The jar was most likely originally intended to be used to carry local supplies, such as wine and olive oil. It...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient tomb in Topolovgrad, southern Bulgaria. The team led by Dr. Daniela Agre found gold artefacts inside the tomb that are thought to belong to a Thracian warrior.The Thracians were an Indo-European ethnic group which emerged during 3rd millennium BC in the Early Bronze Age. They were situated at Balkan Peninsula and were constituted of different tribes with distinct cultural outlook. The Thracians had interactions with Roman Empire and Greek city-states over time. They became famous for their military prowess during these exchanges. They served as a kind of non-citizen troops in armies of roman empire,...

Two incidents of vandalism have reportedly taken place at Gettysburg National Park within one week. On August 15, park officials reported that multiple boulders had been defaced with graffiti inscribed onto the faces of large stones on Little Round Top, the National Park Services (NPS) reported.

On the main street of this ancient Roman city is the remains of a grand house with black mosaic flooring and black painted walls. It had a series of shops built into its facade, with a uniquely preserved shop sign, and an extraordinary metalworkers shop with metal ingots still on its countertop. Inside the house a rare bundle of tablets was found, giving us the story of the life of the occupant. Join us as we explore The House of the Black Hall in the city of Herculaneum.The House of the Black Hall - Herculaneum | 12:39History Victorum | 16.4K...

A recent study by Stockholm University has provided a new interpretation of the runic inscription on the Forsa Ring, an ancient ring that dictated fines for specific offenses. The reinterpretation positions that ring as the oldest documented value record in Scandinavia and reveals how the Vikings handled fines in a flexible and practical manner. The research was recently published in the Scandinavian Economic History Review.The Forsa Ring (Forsaringen in Swedish) is an iron ring from Hälsingland, dated to the 9th or 10th century. The runic inscription on the ring describes fines for a specific offense, where payment was to be...

Documents written by former President Ronald Reagan revealing a closer look at the president’s life and beliefs have gone up for sale. The Raab Collection based in Ardmore, Pennsylvania lists eight Reagan letters, one signed document and a signed photograph for a total estimated value of $80,000. The documents touch on Reagan’s faith, friendships and crisis-handling during various phases of his life as an actor, governor and president. The letters were written between the years 1952 and 1993, the organization said. Nathan Raab, historical documents expert and president of The Raab Collection, as well as the author of "The Hunt...

One of the most remarkable things about the pyramids is that they have survived for so long. However, what makes Abu Rawash so fascinating is the exact opposite. Discover the story behind the pyramid that disappeared and what this tells us about ancient pyramid construction.Abu Rawash: The Mystery Of Egypt's Missing Pyramid | 48:11Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries | 818K subscribers30,326 views | August 14, 2024

I recently came across the fact that Stonehenge had a fence. Or lets call it a Palisade. Theorized to be at the time of the placement of the megaliths. So what was this Palisade for?The Unsolved Mystery of The Stonehenge Fence | 11:25Paul Whitewick | 135K subscribers | 4,451 views | August 25, 2024

<p>As Americans prepare to celebrate the centennial of the Wright brothers' first flight, a whole country is cringing at what it believes to be a historical injustice against one of its most beloved heroes.</p> <p>Ask anyone in Brazil who invented the airplane and they will say Alberto Santos-Dumont, a five-foot four-inch (1.6 meter) bon vivant who was as well known for his aerial prowess as he was for his dandyish dress and high society life in Belle Epoque Paris.</p>

The Connecticut state Senate recently passed a bill striking Orville and Wilbur Wright from history, and assigning credit for the first powered flight to Gustave Whitehead instead. Aviation historian John Brown found photographic evidence in March that Whitehead made a powered flight over Connecticut in 1901, "two years, four months, and three days before the Wright brothers." The relevant section of House Bill 6671 reads, "The Governor shall proclaim a date certain in each year as Powered Flight Day to honor the first powered flight by [the Wright brothers] Gustave Whitehead and to commemorate the Connecticut aviation and aerospace industry."...

Göbekli Tepe conspiracy theories: Rupert Soskin pushes back. | 23:54The Prehistory Guys | 87.1K subscribers | 21,061 views | June 25, 2024

According to a statement released by the University of Tübingen, an international team of researchers has studied the effects of climate change on hunter-gatherers living in Europe between 47,000 and 7,000 years ago by analyzing their teeth with a machine learning algorithm called Pheno-ABC. "This has allowed us to collect an unprecedented dataset [including some 450 prehistoric humans from all over Europe] that is significantly larger than previous skeletal and genetic datasets," said Hannes Rathmann of the University of Tübingen. The researchers focused on inheritable features of teeth, such as their shape, the ridge and groove patterns on the chewing...

Researchers from Lipscomb University have found that brightly colored books dating back to the Victorian era contain dyes with toxic and poisonous chemicals that could harm readers. The dyes originate from the colorful inks used in the books’ type or illustrations. While previous research has examined the poisonous substances found in the pages of these books, the researchers plan to present a new technique, one not previously used to study books, at the 2024 American Chemical Society (ACS) fall meeting in Denver, Colorado. “These old books with toxic dyes may be in universities, public libraries and private collections,” Abigail Hoermann,...

Alexander the Great was the world most feared warrior king. He died Pharaoh of Egypt and his body was a powerful political tool that enabled anyone possessing it to claim Egypt for themselves. His tomb was seen in the 4th Century AD in ancient Alexandria, and ever since people have searched hoping to find this holy grail of archaeology. Now using evidence from Alexander’s own journey through Egypt, we are perhaps close to solving one of history’s most enduring mysteries.

Five hundred years ago, no one suspected the 16th-century vessel the Nao Victoria would become the stuff of legend. In 1519, a Portuguese consul called the Spanish carrack “very old and patched up” and unfit to even “sail … to the Canaries.” Nevertheless, the Nao Victoria was chosen for a five-ship expedition, crewed by 270 men, that would come to be known as one of the most significant journeys in the history of human exploration. The captain of this unprecedented adventure was Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães, anglicized Ferdinand Magellan. On September 20, 1519, he set sail aboard the flagship...

...Amar-Sin, son of Shulgi, succeeded to the throne of Sumer (BC 2046) and reigned eight years... The only parts of the empire which caused trouble in the reign of Amar-Sin were those of the ever turbulent peoples of the Zagros table-lands. Disturbances in the reign of Shu-Sin were confined to the area east of the middle Tigris. Simanum revolted in the second year and Zabshali in the sixth year.In his third year [ 2034 BC ] Gimil-Sin built a wall known as the "Wall of Amurru", or the Amorite Wall, usually translated as the Western Wall... The location of this...

You could never generate this amount of power yourself. Mammoth hunts would have been incredibly dangerous. Image credit: Esteban De Armas/Shutterstock.com North American hunter-gatherers may have developed an innovative method for killing Ice-Age megafauna like mammoths, according to the authors of a new study. Rather than throwing spears at their prey, members of the iconic Clovis culture might have used “braced shaft weapons”, or pikes, to inflict catastrophic injuries on their victims. “The key elements of the pike are a sharp tip for entering thick hide or armor and a long, sturdy shaft that could be braced in the ground...

In their study, Dr. Gaffney and colleagues say that new evidence of manually collected and processed 50,000-year-old tree resin shows that humans using sophisticated technological processes arrived on Waigeo Island, which lies along the northern route most suited for human expansion into Australia, as much as 50 to 55 thousand years ago. The new finding exceeds past estimates by close to 10,000 years, revealing that humans likely traversed the Pacific millennia earlier than once thought."The tree resin artefact provides evidence for complex plant processing during early human dispersal," they write. The researchers note that the resin sample is "rectilinear," which...

Staff at Swansea Building Society were taken aback when their usual delivery of savings and mortgage paperwork included an artefact from the past – a postcard dating back 121 years. The “spooky” discovery comes just a year after the building society celebrated its 100th anniversary, making the postcard even older than the institution itself, by two decades. The postcard, addressed to a woman in Swansea, Wales, has intrigued both staff and the public alike. Henry Darby, the company’s marketing and communications officer, shared his excitement about the unexpected find, describing it as both “exciting” and “a little bit spooky.” Most...