Hellenistic Wine Jars from Rhodes Reveal the Secrets of Earth’s Magnetic Field and the Jerusalem of the Maccabees (opens in new tab)

What seems like a simple amphora shard, the kind archaeologists find by the thousands in excavations, is actually a recorder of the Earth’s magnetic field with astonishing precision. A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, Ariel University, and the University of California San Diego has managed to extract high-resolution geomagnetic information from 24 ceramic […]