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Some 200 artifacts, including bronze brooches, bead necklaces, swords, short blades, pottery, and glass flasks recovered from the cemetery, have been dated to between A.D. 400 and 650.

The researchers will attempt to recover DNA from the remains and analyze the chemical composition of the bones in order to investigate family relationships, past migrations, and health status, including possible infection with the Justinianic plague in the 540s
 
A payslip made from a sheet of papyrus shows a Roman soldier was left penniless 1,900 years ago after the military took out fees for certain items. It shows Gaius Messius received 50 denarri, but fees for barley money, food, and military equipment were taken out that totaled to the amount of his full pay

The payslip was found where the Romans may have set up camp during the Siege of Masada and is dated for after the war – suggesting it was payment for participation.

The document’s translation is available in the Database of Military Inscriptions and Papyri of Early Roman Palestine.

It reads: ‘The fourth consulate of Imperator Vespasianus Augustus.’

‘Accounts, salary. Gaius Messius, son of Gaius, of the tribe Fabia, from Beirut.’

The document was made out to a Gaius Messius, who participated in the Siege of Masada that was one of the last battles during the First Jewish-Roman War

‘I received my stipendium of 50 denarii, out of which I have paid barley money 16 denarii. […]rnius: food expenses 20(?) denarii; boots 5 denarii; leather strappings 2 denarii; linen tunic 7 denarii.’
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Researchers said the three specimens, one roughly 800,000 years old and two over a million years old, provide important insights into the giant Ice Age mammals, including the ancient heritage of the woolly mammoth.

The genomes far exceed the oldest previously sequenced DNA—a horse dating between 780,000 to 560,000 years ago.
 
Researchers once thought humans initially entered the Americas about 12,000 years ago. That’s when thick glaciers that covered much of North America began to melt. This opened a corridor, which allowed people to trek from Siberia across now-submerged land in the Bering Sea, and then into North America on the hunt for mammoth and other big game.

The pup’s genome revealed it was closely related to the first known dogs, which researchers think were domesticated in Siberia about 23,000 years ago. Based on the number of genetic differences between the Alaskan dog and its Siberian ancestors, the team estimates the two populations split 16,700 years ago, plus or minus a few thousand years.
That’s a clue that dogs—and their humans—left Siberia and entered the Americas thousands of years before North America’s glaciers melted.
 
The reconstructed rock art chronology, just published in Australian Archaeology, uses existing data sets of more than 14 million different photos of a wide range of things from animals such as dogs, cats, lizards, and insects to objects like chairs, tables, and cups.
“In total the computer saw more than 1000 different types of objects and learned to tell the difference between them just by looking at photos of them,” Dr Wesley explains.

“The important skill this computer developed was a mathematical model that has the ability to tell how similar two different images are to one another.”
Then the mathematical modeling was applied to the images collected in northern Australia.
 
One of the oldest known brick houses in northern Europe has been discovered in the city of Lübeck, Germany. While refurbishing another house, the foundation and walls of a tower-like house dating back to 1170 AD were uncovered during earth works.

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