The museum thought it might be a fake, but when Gigante visited to see the astrolabe firsthand, she realized it was not only an authentic 11th-century instrument—one of the oldest yet discovered ...

Dor L2, with basket-handle amphorae, iron blooms and a wood-and-lead anchor stock, belongs to the seventh–sixth centuries BCE, a period when Assyrian and then Babylonian policies revived long ...

Published Apr 27, 2022 5:25 AM CDT Updated May 19, 2022 4:01 AM CDT ...