Wednesday What's New in History | June 08, 2016

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This weekly feature is a place to discuss new developments in fields of history and archaeology. This can be newly discovered documents and archaeological sites, recent publications, documents that have just become publicly available through digitization or the opening of archives, and new theories and interpretations.

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Ha'aretz is reporting that researchers from the German Archaeological Institute at Athens have discovered the first Oracle to Apollo in Athens, where the seer practiced hydromancy, using a circular well that had been hidden under the omphalos stone.

I'm not sure on the exact details, but the water supply also seemed to be used by a nearby bathhouse, where, er, "travellers, Athenians (for example teenage boys undergoing formal education, the ephebs), craftsmen" would hang out with "the prostitutes gathering in the area around the city gates," according to the article.