Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority Official Channel In the Caesarea National Park in northern Israel a large mosaic was discovered which dated to the 2nd – 3rd century CE. Caesarea is an old Roman city which has been the site for amazing discovery after discovery for years. The mosaic was Roman but also had Greek inscriptions…
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Roman Findings: Julian Landing, Augustan-era Ships, Sümela Chapel
bloodua / 123RF Stock Photo The landing site of Julius Caesar’s British Invasion has a new contender at Pegwell Bay based on carbon dating of weapons, similarities to the fortress of Alésia and the size of the bay compared to Caesar’s fleet size. The research was carried out by researchers from the University of Leicester….
Mechanical Menagerie #13: Gravity Worldwide
Credit: Gravity Industries This is a demonstration at Surfers Paradise, a resort town along Australia’s Gold Coast in the east of the massive Pacific nation. Gravity Industries, the company Richard Browning co-founded to create the Daedalus Suit, has been up to quite a lot since I featured him in September 2017. https://tomeoftrovius.com/2017/09/07/mechanical-menagerie-compilation-4-personal-flight/ We have a…
Mechanical Menagerie #10: The Jetman
Credit: AIRBORNE-FILMS Now you can fly with jets, in a suit. The Jetman is an inventor and pioneer in his field (if you can call it that) who developed a small, jet propelled win. It looks like a glider but it is a carbon fiber wing with 4 jet engines attached which propel the wing…
Sustainability Compilation #2: Innovative Plants
Reforestum Would you like to plant a forest anywhere in the world? There is now an app for that! The site Reforestum provides a method for you to pay for creating a forest anywhere in the world which you can then monitor and track. If you’d like to spread environmentalism across the globe with trees…
Grow Your Furniture!
Credit: Full Grown If you want a more natural approach to furniture look no further than Full Grown. A U.K. company, they have re-imagined how we use wood and instead of chopping trees down to make them into something, they’ve decided to grow furniture instead. Their method involves grafting shoots together from willows around a…
Asian bodies discovered in London
In a Roman cemetery south of London two skeletons that were unearthed and examined were determined to have been of Asian origin. The ancient Roman city of Londinium was an administrative center in England for the Romans but Asians weren’t exactly on the list of visitors. Researchers were mainly looking to see if migrants were…
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