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Did You Hear the News About AntiquityNOW?

Posted on January 27, 2015 | Leave a comment

In today’s busy society, with so many outlets vying for our attention, it can be difficult to catch every blog post, read every social media update and discover every new and useful resource. We know you’re probably juggling many things at once, so we’re making it easier for you to keep up with AntiquityNOW. Subscribe to our quarterly email newsletter and occasional updates and you’ll never miss another insightful blog post, new curriculum for the classroom, free bookmark, cookbook or any of our other free resources. The newsletter will recap the most popular posts from the past quarter as well as update you on our new projects. We’re not going to pepper your inbox with emails. You’ll get all of the most important details in an easy-to-read format that comes just a few times a year.

Check out our first quarterly newsletter of the year here and visit our Newsletter Archive to view past issues. The newsletter is easy to send along to your friends or share on social media so your colleagues have a chance to sign up and receive updates as well.

We are doing exciting things in 2015 and we want you to know all about them!

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Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, AntiquityNOW News, cultural preservation, historic preservation updates

Bon Appetit Wednesday! Ancient Magical Kefir

Posted on January 21, 2015 | 5 comments

Image courtesy of Yuriybrisk on Wikimedia Commons.

We’ve written before about the benefits of looking to our past for nutritious foods. Many ancient cultures thrived in part because of the healthy, natural staples in their diets such as amaranth and quinoa in Mesoamerica, the adzuki bean in Japan and seaweed in Asia and the British Isles. Today, we’re bringing you a recipe for a delicious smoothie that features an ancient ingredient called kefir. It’s the perfect nutrient-packed start to your morning. Continue reading →

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Posted in Blog, Bon Appetit Wednesday, Culinary, Culture, Healing Arts, Science and Technology

Tagged ancient fermented foods, ancient history, ancient kefir, ancient recipes, AntiquityNOW, Bon Appetit Wednesday, Caucasus Mountains, kefir, kefir grains, kefir smoothie

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In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Posted on January 19, 2015 in Blog, Education, Holidays, Human Rights, Politics, Public Life

Tagged American history, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr.

Tattoos and the Body as Canvas: Erasing the Past With Modern Tattoos

Posted on January 15, 2015 | 1 comment

We’ve written before about tattoos in our post Tattoos and the Body as Canvas. How from ancient times people have etched into flesh the story of their lives. From designs that heighten beauty, signify status, show affiliation or even scourge a social outcast, tattoos have always been about designations. Indeed, our body as canvas is at once both intimate and public. For some, tattoos depict their innermost beings for the world to see. For others, particularly when used to announce a person’s outlier status in society, tattoos are meant to be felt as a visceral destruction of self. Continue reading →

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Posted in Beauty, Blog, Crime, Culture, Healing Arts, Human Rights, Public Life, War and Violence

Tagged ancient art, ancient history, ancient tattoos, AntiquityNOW, Basma Hameed, scar removal, tattoos over scars

Bon Appetit Wednesday! West African Jollof Rice

Posted on January 14, 2015 | Leave a comment

It’s an explosion of flavors, a mingling of ingredients, that creates a perfect symphony of taste. Jollof rice, or “one pot” in the Jolof language, is thought to be the original dish behind the Cajun favorite called jambalaya.[1] Jollof rice can be found in all corners of West Africa, with different regions claiming their own recipes. Each variation boasts a history with roots as deep as the culture in which it originally made its appearance. But to tell the true tale of jollof rice is to tell the story of the Wolof tribe. Continue reading →

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Tagged ancient African recipes, ancient food, ancient history, ancient recipes, AntiquityNOW, Bon Appetit Wednesday, Jollof Rice, Nigerian food, West African recipe, Wolof tribe

Ancient Egyptian Blue: How the World’s First Synthetic Pigment Is Producing Tomorrow’s Brave—and Colorful–New World

Posted on January 13, 2015 | 2 comments

Have you ever noticed that the AntiquityNOW website has splashes of a particular set of vibrant colors? Perhaps you’ve even found the Our Colors section on our site that reveals the ancient history behind our beauteous array. One color, specifically the deep blue, is particularly intriguing with its 4,500-year-old past, its surprising relevance for today’s scientific inquiry and its future promise for such fields as medicine and communications technology. Continue reading →

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Posted in Architecture, Art, Blog, Culture, Science and Technology

Tagged ancient art, ancient blue, ancient colors, ancient dyes, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, Egyptian blue, Egyptian dyes, first synthetic pigment

The Fable of “The Sheep and the Horses”: Take a Listen to the 6,000-Year-Old Language of Our Ancestors

Posted on January 8, 2015 | 3 comments

UPDATE! This post was originally published on February 25, 2014. The post below reveals the amazing technology that is helping linguists rediscover languages from our past that were lost long ago. Specifically, it discusses the discovery of a Proto-Indo-European language that was spoken over 6,000 years ago. Today’s update is about saving a language before it becomes extinct. Some young people in Louisiana, United States, are fighting to preserve the language of their people, a little known Native American tribe called the Houma. Continue reading →

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Posted in Art, Blog, Communications, Computer Technology, Culture, Engineering, Public Life, Science and Technology

Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, Eurasia, language, linguist, Native American languages, Native American tribes Louisiana, Proto-Indo-European, The Sheep and The Horses, translation, United Houma Nation

Bon Appetit Wednesday! Ancient Nettle Pudding—Britain’s Oldest Recipe

Posted on January 7, 2015 | 4 comments

Why would anyone ever want to eat something called a “stinging nettle?” Well, because it’s delicious and nutritious! Our ancient ancestors knew the value of this unhappily named plant and you can still enjoy it today. This week we’re bringing you a recipe for an ancient Nettle Pudding. For those of you not familiar with non-dessert puddings, it has the consistency of a dumpling and is often eaten with chunks of bread and the meat it is cooked along side. Continue reading →

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Tagged ancient British food, ancient food, ancient history, ancient nettle pudding, ancient recipes, AntiquityNOW, Bon Appetit Wednesday, prehistoric recipes, stinging nettle

Happy 2015! Here Are Your Free Gifts From AntiquityNOW!

Posted on January 6, 2015 | 1 comment

We hope your holidays were joyous and accompanied by good cheer, good company and good food. We wanted to make sure that in the midst of all the holiday celebration you received your free gifts from AntiquityNOW. Just click on the links below.

2014 Recipes With a Past

Enjoy our e-cookbook with delectable recipes from our Bon Appetit Wednesday! blog posts. Each recipe includes a brief explanation of the food’s ancient origins—with many surprises sure to tickle the imagination along with the palate.

Education Topic Matrix

New this year! AntiquityNOW has a variety of free content to supplement the classroom curricula, all organized by region/era and including fun facts, educational projects, videos, lessons and more showing how ancient lives continue to influence us today. Who knew the first computer was built more than 2,000 years ago in Greece? That bubble gum was discovered from 3,000 BCE in Finland? Or that the ballgame was created in Mesopotamia in 1400 BCE? We knew because at AntiquityNOW we love to make those eye-popping, jaw-dropping connections. As we like to say, “The past is not as distant as you may think.” Like what you see? Let us showcase your best ideas revealing how past and modern times intersect. Please go to “Submit Work.”

Bookmarks

We’ve added more bookmarks, including for the two projects above, to download for you archaeologists, teachers, students, cultural preservationists, puzzle aficionados, Trivial Pursuit enthusiasts and historical gadflies everywhere.