January
16
/ 2022
In this top story overview, we highlight our most read articles this week, including a look at the little-known subject of Arabian Chivalry and exploring Lagash, a lost city from Mesopotamia. Among our most popular this week are three breaking news stories – newly-discovered evidence for social beer drinking in the Middle East, the discovery of 1,000-year-old treasures in a Polish tomb, and the finding of an 800-year-old birch bark letter in Russia. Earliest Social Drinking Evidence in the Middle East Found in Israel [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"93431","attributes":{"alt":"Israeli archaeologists working at the Tel Tsaf site in the Jordan valley have discovered the earliest evidence of social drinking in the Middle East, dating to 5000 BC. Source: Nejron Photo / Adobe Stock","class":"media-image","height":"430","style":"width: 610px; height
