Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history. Although famous medical texts like the 16th century Ming Dynasty’s Bencao Gangmu originally cited the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368 CE) as the earliest evidence of Chinese alcoholic distillation, recent experiments conducted by a team affiliated with Zhengzhou University […]
Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons beneath the “Treasury” in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. In Arabic, the Treasury is known as “Al-Khazneh,” which translates to “the treasury of the pharaoh.” The exact purpose of the Treasury is unclear, but it may have been a mausoleum for the Nabataean king […]
Human remains from the Yayoi period, approximately 2,300 years ago, from which DNA was extracted. Credit: Kim et al 2024 A joint research group led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that the majority of immigration to the Japanese Archipelago in the Yayoi and Kofun periods (between 3000 […]
