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Confirmed: Curia of Pompey, where Julius Caesar was killed, was built in three phases
Chemical and petrographic analysis bolsters earlier stratigraphic findings.
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Ancient hunter-gatherer seashell resonates after 17,000 years
Archaeologists have managed to get near-perfect notes out of a musical instrument that's more than 17,000 years old. It's a conch shell that was found in a hunter-gatherer cave in southern France. The artefact is the oldest known wind instrument of its type. To date, only bone flutes can claim a deeper heritage.
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Ancient Shellfish Sailed The Seas On The Shells Of Turtles
AsianScientist (Sep. 23, 2020) – Using detailed three-dimensional (3D) scans of fossilized shells, scientists in Japan have identified a species of mollusk that grew on living sea turtles about 100 million years ago. Their findings, which shed light on ancient parasitic or symbiotic relationships, have been published in Palaios.
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Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like