Archaeologists find Egyptian mummy buried with the 'Iliad'(openculture.com)

172 points by diodorus 5 months ago | 126 comments

Complete Digitization of Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus(openculture.com)

123 points by emmelaich 1 year ago | 39 comments

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers(openculture.com)

135 points by geox 2 years ago | 65 comments

The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world(openculture.com)

51 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 37 comments

1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored(openculture.com)

230 points by gslin 3 months ago | 45 comments

Hear the "Amati King Cello", the Oldest Known Cello in Existence(openculture.com)

71 points by tesserato 8 months ago | 35 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)(iosiflazaridis.github.io)

127 points by endorphine 22 hours ago | 49 comments

An interactive map and dataset of all 1,709 named land and sea battles fought by the Romans from 753 BCE to 1475 CE, with opponents, results and records.

The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire(michelecoscia.com)

136 points by mikk14 12 days ago | 30 comments

Blog post by Michele Coscia applying economic complexity analysis to the economy of the Western Roman Empire.

The Bawdy Graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum (2017)(kashgar.com.au)

5 points by fittingopposite 12 days ago | 0 comments

A 2017 blog post on the bawdy and humorous graffiti found on the walls of ancient Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Why aren't smart people happier?(theseedsofscience.pub)

460 points by zdw 11 months ago | 538 comments

A Seeds of Science post by psychologist Adam Mastroianni exploring why higher intelligence doesn't seem to make people happier.

Show HN: I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes(road-about-a-theme.pinedesk.biz)

8 points by 91awebsi 1 month ago | 5 comments

Interactive data visualization mapping US roads whose names match over 1,000 themes derived by cross-referencing Wikidata articles with OpenStreetMap roads.

Why We Still Cannot Read Etruscan(veiledantiquity.com)

4 points by darkwater 15 days ago | 0 comments

Blog post explaining why Etruscan remains poorly understood despite being pronounceable, since most of the ~13,000 surviving inscriptions are funerary.