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Ancient Egyptian Paint Contained More Than Animal Glue, Study Finds — Curiosmos
2+ week, 2+ day ago (559+ words) Ancient Egyptian artists were working with a much wider range of materials than the usual picture of "paint and glue" suggests. A new analysis of 28 microscopic samples from 14 painted objects found evidence for glues made from several animals, along with…...
An Ancient Iron Furnace in Uzbekistan Is Opening a Window on Central Asian Metalworking — Curiosmos
2+ week, 5+ day ago (484+ words) An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project has uncovered the remains of a settlement and a large…...
Scientists Read 4,000-Year-Old Letters Without Opening Their Clay Envelopes — Curiosmos
4+ week, 10+ hour ago (811+ words) Researchers are using high-definition X-ray CT and virtual unwrapping to read cuneiform letters that remain sealed inside their ancient clay envelopes. For thousands of years, some letters from Mesopotamia have remained exactly where their writers left them: inside small clay…...