Monthly Archives: April 2016

Detective Scientists Discover Ancient Clues in Mummy Portraits

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Northwestern is a leader in using scientific analysis to study cultural heritage materials

EVANSTON, Ill. — A Northwestern University research team has taken CSI to a whole new level: employing sophisticated scientific tools to investigate details of the materials and methods used by Roman-Egyptian artists to paint lifelike mummy portraits more than 2,000 years ago. These visages of the dead are considered to be antecedents of Western portraiture. Continue reading Detective Scientists Discover Ancient Clues in Mummy Portraits

9.200 years old preserved fish found

Signs of early settlement in the Nordic region date back to the cradle of civilisation

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The discovery of the world’s oldest storage of fermented fish in southern Sweden could rewrite the Nordic prehistory with findings indicating a far more complex society than previously thought. The unique discovery by osteologist Adam Boethius from Lund University was made when excavating a 9,200 year-old settlement at what was once a lake in Blekinge, Sweden.

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