While enthusiasts across the world pored over the Voynich manuscript, penned by an unknown author in a language no one understands, a research team at the University of Arizona solved one of its biggest mysteries: When was the book made? University of Arizona researchers have cracked one of the puzzles surrounding what has been called “the world’s most mysterious manuscript” – the Voynich manuscript, a book filled with drawings and writings nobody has been...
A 2,550-year-old Celtic settlement was the site of an ancient brewery capable of turning out large quantities of beer. Thousands of charred barley grains unearthed about a decade ago came from a large malt-making enterprise. The oldest known beer residue and brewing facilities date to 5,500 years ago in the Middle East. Early Celtic rulers of a community in what’s now southwestern Germany liked to party, staging elaborate feasts in a ceremonial center. The...
THE GIST The bottles, from the British Antarctic Expedition 1907, were deeply embedded in ice at minus 30 degrees Celsius temperatures but the whisky inside was still liquid. The bottles of Mackinlay’s were part of a cache recovered last year from beneath Shackleton’s Antarctic hut. Tests are now under way to see how the whisky fared after being preserved in the polar chill for so long. Three bottles of whisky abandoned in the Antarctic...
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