Tag: archaeology
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The Viking Sunstone: How It Works, and What Has Been Found
The physics is settled: a calcite crystal really can locate the sun through cloud. Everything else is argued — the one text describing it…
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Derinkuyu: The Doors Only Close From Inside
Eighty-five metres down, eight levels open of an estimated eighteen, and a half-tonne stone wheel with a spear-hole through the middle. A building tells…
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The Sumerian King List: 241,200 Years Before the Flood
Eight kings, 241,200 years, then a flood. Almost every retelling adds the numbers up — and what that shape means is the whole argument.
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The Nazca Lines: Two Readings of the Same Desert
A 370-metre hummingbird you cannot take in from the ground, cut into a desert that gets twenty minutes of rain a year. Two explanations…
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The Baghdad Battery: The Chemistry Works. That Was Never the Question.
Copper, iron, bitumen and vinegar will produce a current whether anyone intended it or not. What the Baghdad jars actually are, and why capability…
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Göbekli Tepe: The Temple That Came Before Farming
11,600 years old – older than pottery, metal, writing and the wheel. Why Göbekli Tepe inverted the accepted order of civilisation, and what excavation…