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Twin Statues Found Intact at Pompeii
April 4, 2025
Archaeologists working at Pompeii have found a pair of nearly life-size statues depicting people. The pair are of a man and a woman, standing side by side. The male figure is relatively intact; the female figure has a slight break in the neck. The archaeologists said that the statues might depict a husband and wife or, equally possible, a mother and son. An inscription identifying the people, if there ever was any, has not survived. The female figure, shown wearing earrings, bracelets, and rings, is a bit taller than the male figure and is shown carrying laurel leaves, which is often a sign of a priestess. As well, the female figure is shown wearing a crescent moon amulet known as a lunula, which was associated with Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility. If that was the case, the experts said, then the man depicted was probably a priest.
Top Half of Giant Ramses II Statue Found 95 Years Later
March 31, 2025
Now Rameses II has his head again. A team of archaeologists have found the missing head to go along with the lower half of a statue of the famed pharaoh found in the early 20th Century. It was in 1930 that a team of German archaeologists led by Gunther Roeder found what amounted to the bottom part of what they estimated to be a 23-foot-tall statue of the well-known warrior king from the 19th Dynasty. The German team found that part of the statue in the Minya Governorate, 150 miles south of Cairo, near what is now El Ashmunein. In ancient times, the area was termed Khemnu and was a provincial capital. The 2024 expedition, partnering archaeologists from Egypt and the United States, found the 12.5-foot-tall upper half, which showed Ramses II wearing a double crown and a cobra-topped headdress. On the back of the statue are hieroglyphs detailing the king's various titles. Also found were traces of blue-and-yellow pigment, which could lead more clues as to the creation of the statue and how it got there. Egyptian officials already have plans to reunite the two parts, to make one giant statue.
Pristine Roman Aqueduct Unearthed in Slovakia
March 25, 2025
Archaeologists have found the first-ever unearthed Roman aqueduct in Slovakia. The intact section of waterway had lain undisturbed for centuries. The find came during excavations preceding the restoration of a well-known Bratislava relic, the Rusovce Chateau, built in the 19th Century on a site that has since revealed remnants of a 17th-Century church and artifacts dating all the way back to the Bronze Age. Gerulta, a Roman military camp and surrounding settlement, is known to have been in the area. It was the aqueduct, though, that fired the team's attention. Not before in Slovakia have archaeologists found a Roman aqueduct. It is 3 feet tall and 13 inches (or a Roman foot) wide. The base is made up of Roman bricks, and the rest is stone. It was found 31 inches underground. Archaeologists have found 125 feet in length so far.
First-time Champion Holmes Wins Longest-ever Iditarod
March 15, 2025
Jessie Holmes won the 53rd running of the Iditarod Sled Dog Trail Race, claiming the honor of first across the line after five top-10 finishes. The 43-year-old finished the 1,128-mile course in 10 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes. It was not a best time because the course was the longest ever. Racers started at Pike's Waterfront Lodge in Fairbanks and, after embarking on a loop at Kaltag, had a halfway checkpoint at Grayling before heading home to Nome on a route changed by poor trail conditions. Holmes, who spent much of the race as the front-runner, won $57,200 as part of an overall purse of $500,000.
Opposition Party Tops Voting in Kalaalit Nunaat (Greenland)
March 12, 2025
The Demokraatit Party has won the most votes in Kalaalit Nunaat's parliamentary election. The center-right, pro-business party won 29.9 percent of the total, outclassing the ruling Ataqatiglit Party, which garnered 21.1 percent of the vote. The Inuit Ataqatiglit Party had partnered with the Siumut Party in 2021 and together gained 66.1 percent of the vote. This year, that combined total was just 36 percent. >The island, known for centuries as Greenland, is large but also largely uninhabited. It has 72 polling stations, and 40,500 people are eligible to vote. The island's total population is about 57,000. Significantly, the Demokraatit Party favors a slow path to independence from Denmark. The party with the second-highest vote total was Naleraq, who favor a quick pivot to independence. Naleraq's total was 24.5 percent.
American Woman Wins International Pancake Day Race
March 5, 2025
The Pancake title is back across the Pond. Pamela Bolivar (right), an American, won this year's international Pancake Day race, finishing in a time of 1 minute, 3 seconds. The winner in Olney, England, was Eloise Kramer, who finished in 1 minute, 7 seconds. The Liberal race is part of a multi-day affair, involving other races (including a 5K running race that involves not one pancake), other contests (among them a timed test of pancake flipping), a parade, a talent show, a shriving church service, and (of course) a pancake breakfast. In Olney, the turnout was a record high 25 individual runners and eight three-legged teams. A children's race was also on offer.
Archaeologists Find Tomb of Hatshepsut Co-ruler Thutmose II
February 19, 2025
A team of archaeologists have discovered the tomb of Thutmose II, the fourth pharaoh of Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty and spouse of the famed female ruler Hatshepsut. The archaeologists, a team of both English and Egyptians, discovered the tomb in late 2022, in the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurued in the Western Wadis, west of Luxor; they labeled the tomb C4. Because the tomb was found near the tombs of Hatshepsut and of wives o Thutmose III, the team thought that the tomb was of a royal consort. They were right, just not in the way they thought. Among the discoveries in the tomb were alabaster fragments with inscriptions referring to Thutmose II, as a "deceased king"; significantly, also on those inscriptions was Hatshepsut's name. Also found was funerary furniture.
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