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13 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Central Asian horse riders played ball games 3,000 years ago
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New evidence for ball games in Eurasia from ca. 3000-year-old Yanghai tombs in the Turfan depression of Northwest China sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
The invention of trousers and its likely affiliation with horseback riding and mobility: A case study of late 2nd millennium BC finds from Turfan in eastern Central Asia
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Researchers examined three leather balls found in graves in the old Yanghai cemetery near the city of Turfan in northwest China. The balls, measuring between 7.4 and 9.2cm in diameter, have been dated at around 2,900 to 3,200 years old. sci-news.com/archaeology/tu…

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26 Sep
Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest and most complete set of Roman body armour yet on a battlefield. The entire cuirass was found at Kalkriese in northwestern Germany 
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The myth of Hermann remains tainted by the militant nationalism that would later be associated with Hitler.

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17 Sep
In honor of #RoshHashanah5781 I am sharing this shofar (ram’s horn), made in the forced labor camp Skarżysko-Kamienna (belonged to German HASAG concern), in southeastern Poland, during World War II.
c. 25,000-30,000 Jews were brought here and between 18,000-23,000 perished. Image
Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, asked Moshe Winterter, also an inmate in the camp, to make a shofar for the holy observance of Rosh Hashana in 1943 (5704). In spite of the danger to his own life, Moshe created one. Image
On Rosh Hashanah morning, they were able to keep the mitzvah of blowing the shofar.

Moshe Winterter (photo) survived the Holocaust. You can see his shofar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He managed to keep the shofar with him, but when he was sent to Buchenwald, it was left behind Image
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30 Aug
A wildfire has broken out near the ruins of the bronze age stronghold of Mycenae in Greece, prompting the evacuation of visitors to the archaeological site.
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The fire that broke out at the Mycenae archaeological side has not caused any damage to antiquities at first inspection, the Ministry of Culture says.
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28 Aug
This exquisite mosaic, showing six female musicians, with two small boys dressed as cupids, on a wooden stage, once decorated the floor of an apsidal room of a Roman house at Mariamin, near Hama in Syria.
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The women dressed in tunics long mantles, decorated with clavus, stones or gold colored parts, perform with clappers, an organ, a double flute, metal sounding bows, a cithara and castanets.

At the Hama Museum in Syria.
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12 Aug
Archaeologists say they've identified the earliest known bone tools in the European archaeological record.

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During excavations at the Boxgrove site in West Sussex, archaeologists uncovered hundreds of stone tools, along with animal bones, that dated to 500,000 years ago.

The bone tools came from a horse that humans butchered at the site for its meat. Image
"A pile of stone shards produced when an early human knelt to create a stone hand axe. The imprint of the person's knee can be seen in the silt" Image
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18 Jul
A major fire broke out Saturday inside the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, emergency services said.
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French authorities opened a criminal investigation into a major fire that broke out in the cathedral in the western French city of Nantes on Saturday. The blaze blew out stained glass windows and destroyed the grand organ in the 15th-century building.
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