A roundup of Secrets in the News for September. Read more below for a 2,000-year-old “iPhone,” Neanderthal footprints, Ancient language translators, and more.
‘Mayan Girls’ Step Forward As Next Generation Of Translators Of An Ancient Language
WLRN Miami reports: A group of high schoolers called the Mayan Girls help translate Q’anjob’al, an indigenous language with ancient Mayan roots, for case workers in South Florida’s Guatemalan-Maya Center. … [read more]
A group of Lake Worth high school students are the “trusted translators” of Palm Beach County’s Guatemalan Mayan immigrant community. They translate everything from vaccination information to hurricane awareness into different Mayan languages. https://t.co/GdQUk4W5Qt pic.twitter.com/u1fcjF807f
— WLRN Public Media (@WLRN) September 11, 2019
Archaeologists Find 2,100-Year-Old ‘iPhone’ In Grave Of Woman Buried In Russian ‘Atlantis’
UNILAD reports: Archaeologists discovered a rectangular object that looks curiously like an iPhone buried with the remains of an ancient fashionista. … [read more]
Archaeologists find 2,100-year-old ‘iPhone’ in grave of woman buried in Russian ‘Atlantis’ https://t.co/QFyn7NruvL
— The Irish Sun (@IrishSunOnline) September 8, 2019
Hundreds of Ancient Footprints Reveal a Snapshot of Neanderthal Family Life
Smithsonian reports: A group of 257 footprints in Normandy come from 10 to 13 people, mostly children scampering around near the beach. … [read more]
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Archaeologists may have found Biblical town linked to Ark of the Covenant
Yahoo! News reports: A 2,200-year-old fortification unearthed in Israel may be a town mentioned in the Bible – and linked to the Ark of the Covenant. … [read more]
“A Hymn” by Kevin Labianco, Creative Commons