This is a way to learn about the nutrition, health and more of the ancient man * Tel Aviv University 360 podcast
We all know archaeological sites in Israel and around the world. Most of the time, all that remains are the remains of buildings from which the original buildings can be imagined and reconstructed. In this podcast, the guest is Prof. Dafna Langut - from the Department of Archeology and Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations here at Tel Aviv University, the head of the Laboratory for Archaeo-Botany and the Study of the Ancient Environment, at the Institute of Archeology and the Steinhardt Museum of Nature, who has developed a method to find out what plants, trees and flowers were planted in those archaeological sites and in particular In the luxurious palaces of the rulers here in the area.
This podcast is dedicated to the field of archaeo-botany, that is, locating and identifying microscopic remains from plants of antiquity, and from the information on them we can know things that we would not otherwise know about the ancient man, about his diet, about his health, about the climate conditions here on Earth and even how The continuous droughts helped destroy entire empires. In the podcast, Prof. Langot reveals what the gardens looked like in the luxurious palaces of the rulers here in the region and first and foremost what the luxurious gardens looked like in the palaces of King Herod, who is considered the greatest builder in Jewish history, and she also discovers what the role of the plants was beyond their use as ornamental plants in those gardens. The royal gardens expressed throughout history, and express to this day, status, technological capabilities and cultural, social, religious and political connections.
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