Barricades in Paris during the 1848 February Revolution
Roman-era crystal jar from the Galloway Hoard in Scotland, ~10th century AD
Ancient Roman aqueduct, southeast of the city of Rome
Least alcoholic Churchill moment
Oil painting of Red Square in the late 1600s
Researchers succeed for first time in accurately dating a 7,000-year-old prehistoric settlement using cosmic rays (phys.org)
Ancient Egyptians Tried to Surgically Treat Cancer, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
H-4 Spruce Goose Flying Boat, 1947 (colorized)
Black cats auditioning for the film 'Tales of Terror', USA, 1961
Cutaway diagram of Roman insulae (apartments)
High Medieval Byzantine soldiers
Damn, Egypt doesn't seem very Egyptian
Selection of Roman coins and gems, found in Italy, 2nd-1st century BCE
Hobbyist archaeologists identify thousands of ancient sites in England (www.theguardian.com)
Those machines were whack
50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones harbor oldest-known human viruses (www.livescience.com)
Neanderthals who lived 50,000 years ago were infected with three viruses that still affect modern humans today, researchers have discovered....
Face of a wooden sarcophagus, Egypt, ~2250 BCE
Chief Thomas K. Yallup visits his son, training on an M48 Patton tank, Yakima Firing Center, 1954
British Museum gems for sale on eBay - how a theft was exposed (www.bbc.co.uk)
Sara Forbes Bonetta, goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862
Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII (lemmy.world)
Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it....
The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania reveals Middle Stone Age industry (phys.org)
Irene Solano Megías, a predoctoral researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published the first techno-typological study of the most ancient lithic industry of level VI-B at the Mumba rockshelter in the journal African Archaeological Review. This site lies in the Lake...
Inside Roman Emperors’ Outrageously Lavish Dinner Parties (www.atlasobscura.com)
Archaeologists Found an ‘Anomaly’ Near the Pyramids That May Reveal an Ancient Portal (www.popularmechanics.com)
An American soldier examines an (ineffective) Nazi bent barrel attachment for the STG-44, WW2, sometime after 1943?
