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1. Mysterious Messages: a History of Codes and Ciphers

   History?s amazing secrets and codes?and how to crack them yourself.
   This fascinating look at history?s most mysterious messages is packed with puzzles to decode and ciphers that kids can use themselves. Here are the encrypted notes of Spartan warriors, the brilliant code-crackers of Elizabeth I, secret messages of the American Revolution, spy books of the Civil War, the famous Enigma Machine, and the Navajo code talkers. As computers change the way we communicate, codes today are more intriguing than ever.

   ancient-origins - 18/11/2016 - 21:21

2. New Revelations When 3,000-Year-Old Prosthetic Toe is Examined with Cutting Edge Technology

   ... advanced technology such as modern microscopy, X-rays, and computer tomography. They managed to discover that the wooden ...

   Theodoros Karasavvas - 22/06/2017 - 22:50

3. 13 of the Coolest (and Creepiest!) Egyptian Animal Mummies

   Ancient Egypt is well-known for its practice of mummification, but few realize the monumental scale in which they also mummified animals. A staggering 70 million mummified cats, dogs, birds, rodents, primates, sheep, fish, and even crocodiles, have been found in underground catacombs across Egypt.

   Joanna Gillan - 08/12/2022 - 00:54

4. Unprecedented exploration of Antikythera wreck yields new treasures

   ... that many consider it to be the first human-made analogue computer. After decades of research, scientists were able to ...

   aprilholloway - 10/10/2014 - 01:37

5. Recreating the Past in a Cart Fit for a King: Experts Restore Rolls Royce of Ancient China

   Chinese media are calling an ancient cart that experts replicated with computers and other modern and ancient techniques “ancient China’s No. 1 luxury car.” The wooden parts of the cart had disintegrated in the time since it was made in China’s Gansu province about 2,400 years ago and then buried in the Majiayuan cemetery.

   Mark Miller - 16/01/2016 - 23:31

6. How King Arthur Became One of the Most Pervasive Legends of All Time

   ... the last 15 years alone, there have been Hollywood movies, computer games, and other creative re-tellings. With Bangor ...

   ancient-origins - 06/02/2017 - 13:57

7. A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World

   ... did the divers know they had found the oldest known analog computer in the world, an astonishing device that once ...

   ancient-origins - 22/06/2019 - 02:27

8. CT Scans Reveal Ceremonial Execution of Pharaoh ‘Seqenenre the Brave’

   ... known as paleoradiology, Dr. Sahar Saleem deployed computer tomography (CT) technology to perform a deep and ...

   Nathan Falde - 17/02/2021 - 22:03

9. Ancient Horse Bridle Emerges from Melting Ice Along Viking Trade Route

   ... Found Via Melting Glaciers in Norway By integrating computer programs and local knowledge from mountain hikers, ...

   ashley cowie - 09/10/2023 - 22:58

10. The Antikythera mechanism

    ... Antikythera mechanism to be the first human-made analogue computer, potentially used for purposes ranging from ...

    aprilholloway - 30/01/2013 - 12:23

11. Theodore A Holden

    Recently retired after a 40-year career in computer software development which included major roles in a ...

    ancient-origins - 05/02/2013 - 01:13

12. Remote islanders invented binary number system before famous mathematician

    Mangareva is home to just 2,000 inhabitants. The island is a tiny 18 square kilometres and is located halfway between Easter Island and Tahiti. Yet on this small, remote island, the ancient inhabitants were more mathematically advanced than the rest of Europe when they invented a numerical system for trading. 

    aprilholloway - 17/12/2013 - 04:03

13. 8,000-year-old "Brunstad Man" Stone Age Skeleton May be Oldest Ever Found in Norway

    ... site were recorded painstakingly in order to create a 3-D computer model of the area. Archeologists dig at Stokke ...

    lizleafloor - 19/02/2015 - 00:49

14. 600-Year-Old Royal Ship of Henry V Found Buried in Hampshire River

    A wooden shipwreck believed to be one of King Henry V’s greatest ships has been tentatively identified in the River Hamble in southern England. The 600-year-old warship, known as the Holigost (Holy Ghost) was commission by the king in his war against France.

    aprilholloway - 12/10/2015 - 21:46

15. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

    ... Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, ...

    ancient-origins - 14/10/2017 - 00:32

16. I.F.O. Flying Objects Identified?

    ... by Dr. Roberto Volterri is a real manual that, through computer technology, will try to reveal the nature of ancient ...

    ancient-origins - 29/06/2019 - 04:38

17. Battle Reenactors Slashing Criminals and Innocents

    ... battle ax . On Wednesday night, Ben Ball , 36, was playing computer games and relaxing in his Michigan apartment, when ...

    ashley cowie - 12/11/2019 - 13:57

18. What Did Ancient Egypt Really Look Like? A Visual Tour (Video)

    ... in time and see it for ourselves? Thanks to amazing new computer models the past is being brought back to life. The ...

    Robbie Mitchell - 27/04/2023 - 20:53

19. Early humans probably walked in a different way

    ... than what was initially thought. Using sophisticated computer algorithms and models as well as live data from ...

    ancient-origins - 23/03/2013 - 15:59

20. Milky Way may contain 60 billion habitable planets

    ... team of scientists came to this conclusion after extensive computer simulations of cloud behaviour on the planets ...

    aprilholloway - 07/07/2013 - 02:04

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