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Wine for eternity

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The Egyptian tomb at Abydos, first opened in 1988, contained three rooms stocked with wine jars. Total capacity for these rooms would have been approximately 700 vessels, or nearly 1,200 gallons of wine. This evidence shows Early Bronze Age trade between Egypt and Palestine. Tests on the jar interiors show the wine originated in the Jordan Valley, Israel's lowlands, and the Palestinian uplands.

Cover Story, Egypt, Antiquities, Wine and wine making, Wine making

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Coring ancient Rome

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Coring at ancient Roman sites to trace the city's earliest development is described. Coring extracts material from the ground and records the sequence of archaeological layers to define the boundary between the deepest layer and the natural soil. The technique shows that even the earliest Romans took an active hand in modifying their landscape.

Rome, Italy, Architecture, Classical, Classical architecture

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Bedding down for eternity

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Ivory decorations recovered from a Hellenistic-era chamber tomb in central Italy's Abruzzo region are described. The excavations in this area document centuries of changing burial p[ractices.

Tombs, Art, Hellenistic, Hellenistic art

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