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66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone Yields Traces of Real CollagenShackled Men in an Athens Mass Grave Were Locals, Not InvadersA Medieval Ship Was Hiding in a German Cellar CeilingAncient Vietnamese Skeletons Challenge Assumptions About SyphilisDid a Linear A Prayer Reveal Minoan Roots of Dionysos?

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Drone Survey Reveals a Massive Ancient Farm Field in Michigan
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Drone Survey Reveals a Massive Ancient Farm Field in Michigan
A drone-mounted laser survey of a forested Michigan site called Anaem Omot revealed a Native American…
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Is This Underwater Church the Site of the Council of Nicaea?
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Is This Underwater Church the Site of the Council of Nicaea?
Archaeologists excavating beneath Lake Iznik in Turkey have found a smaller, older church hidden below a…
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The ‘Real Mummy’s Curse’ Is a Modern Biohazard Risk
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The ‘Real Mummy’s Curse’ Is a Modern Biohazard Risk
A new study analyzing 128 online listings for mummified human and animal remains found evidence of…
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Elite Woman’s 1,500-Year-Old Golden Shoes Were Made for Burial
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Elite Woman’s 1,500-Year-Old Golden Shoes Were Made for Burial
An elite woman buried at the Karakabak cemetery in western Kazakhstan wore ceremonial gold-covered shoe buckles…
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Does Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone Record a Comet Impact?
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Does Göbekli Tepe’s Vulture Stone Record a Comet Impact?
A 2017 study proposed that Gobekli Tepe's carved Vulture Stone encodes the date of a catastrophic…
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Fire Use at Wonderwerk Cave Pushed Back to 1.79 Million Years
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Fire Use at Wonderwerk Cave Pushed Back to 1.79 Million Years
Using a new bone-luminescence technique, researchers found burned owl-pellet remains deep inside South Africa's Wonderwerk Cave…
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LiDAR Reveals a 3-Million-Person Civilization in the Amazon
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LiDAR Reveals a 3-Million-Person Civilization in the Amazon
A LiDAR survey across 4,497 square kilometers of southwestern Amazonia found five times more earthworks than…
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AI Finally Read a 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll in Full
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AI Finally Read a 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll in Full
Using X-ray scanning and machine learning, the Vesuvius Challenge fully read a carbonized Herculaneum scroll for…
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Spiked Club Solves Mystery of Medieval Battle Skull Wounds
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Spiked Club Solves Mystery of Medieval Battle Skull Wounds
Motion-capture experiments with replica medieval weapons have identified a spiked club as the cause of mysterious…
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66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone Yields Traces of Real Collagen
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66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone Yields Traces of Real Collagen
Researchers at the University of Liverpool detected genuine traces of collagen inside a 66-million-year-old Edmontosaurus hip…
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A Medieval Ship Was Hiding in a German Cellar Ceiling
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A Medieval Ship Was Hiding in a German Cellar Ceiling
A 1244 cellar ceiling in Konstanz, Germany, turned out to be built from the almost complete…
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Did a Linear A Prayer Reveal Minoan Roots of Dionysos?
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Did a Linear A Prayer Reveal Minoan Roots of Dionysos?
A researcher's new, not-yet-peer-reviewed analysis of a 3,500-year-old Linear A inscription from Crete proposes it names…
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Pompeii Victim Found Fleeing With Bowl, Lamp, and Coins
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Pompeii Victim Found Fleeing With Bowl, Lamp, and Coins
Archaeologists excavating the Porta Stabia necropolis outside Pompeii found two men who died trying to flee…
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Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Forged From Meteorites
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Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Forged From Meteorites
A five-year chemical analysis of 91 iron objects from Bronze Age Greece found that 13 nickel-rich…
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2,300-Year-Old Beer Found Sealed in a Chinese Bronze Bottle
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2,300-Year-Old Beer Found Sealed in a Chinese Bronze Bottle
Archaeologists in Ningxia, China, recovered 3.74 liters of surviving liquid from a sealed bronze bottle in…
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Denisovan Leg Bones Suggest They Towered Over Homo Erectus
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Denisovan Leg Bones Suggest They Towered Over Homo Erectus
Fossilized leg bones from two male Denisovans found off Taiwan suggest they stood nearly 6 feet…
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Ancient Vietnamese Skeletons Challenge Assumptions About Syphilis
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Ancient Vietnamese Skeletons Challenge Assumptions About Syphilis
Skeletal remains of children from prehistoric Vietnam show congenital treponemal disease dating back 3,500 years, but…
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Whole Spelt and Pottery Emerge From a Sunken Italian Village
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Whole Spelt and Pottery Emerge From a Sunken Italian Village
The 2026 excavation season at the sunken Iron Age village of Gran Carro in Italy's Lake…
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Life Rebounded ‘Ridiculously Fast’ After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
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Life Rebounded ‘Ridiculously Fast’ After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
A new study using helium-3 dating found that new plankton species appeared fewer than 2,000 years…
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A Martyr’s Church Emerges From Şanlıurfa Castle’s Ruins
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A Martyr’s Church Emerges From Şanlıurfa Castle’s Ruins
Archaeologists at Şanlıurfa Castle in southeastern Türkiye have fully uncovered a 5th-century inscribed floor mosaic, along…
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8,500-Year-Old Scallop Bead Rewrites California Trade History
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8,500-Year-Old Scallop Bead Rewrites California Trade History
Two giant rock scallop beads found deep in California's interior, one dated to 8,500 years old,…
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Shackled Men in an Athens Mass Grave Were Locals, Not Invaders
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Shackled Men in an Athens Mass Grave Were Locals, Not Invaders
New strontium isotope analysis of 66 shackled men buried in ancient Athens' Phaleron mass grave shows…
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13 Elite Graves Found at the Entrance of Naumburg Cathedral
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13 Elite Graves Found at the Entrance of Naumburg Cathedral
Archaeologists redeveloping the square outside Germany's Naumburg Cathedral have uncovered a small 11th-century cemetery squeezed into…
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Moche Pottery Workshops Uncovered at Peru’s Cerro Mayal
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Moche Pottery Workshops Uncovered at Peru’s Cerro Mayal
Archaeologists excavating Cerro Mayal in northern Peru have uncovered ceramic moulds, potters' plates, and mounds of…
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Mercury or Victoria? A Vanished Roman Relic’s Lingering Mystery
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Mercury or Victoria? A Vanished Roman Relic’s Lingering Mystery
A rediscovered 1938 photograph from Germany's mysterious Kneblinghausen Roman camp shows an engraved lead relic that…
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Danube Drought Reveals a Roman Altar and a Wartime Grenade
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Danube Drought Reveals a Roman Altar and a Wartime Grenade
Record-low Danube water levels near Dunaujvaros, Hungary, have exposed a Roman altar to Jupiter and inscribed…
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How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
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How a Sanctuary to Apollo, Lord of Mice, Became a Christian Farm
Archaeologists at Turkiye's Apollon Smintheus Sanctuary have uncovered a 1,500-year-old mortar and storage jars showing that…
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Ancient Genomes Reveal Japan’s Deep Population History
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Ancient Genomes Reveal Japan’s Deep Population History
Researchers reconstructed two exceptionally high-coverage ancient genomes from Japan, an 8,300-year-old Jomon woman and a 2,300-year-old…
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Ice Age Hunters May Have Favored Female Woolly Mammoths
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Ice Age Hunters May Have Favored Female Woolly Mammoths
Genetic analysis of over 500 woolly mammoths shows a striking pattern: bone deposits linked to Ice…
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A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Fraud Scandal Uncovered in Ancient Türkiye
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A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Fraud Scandal Uncovered in Ancient Türkiye
Newly deciphered inscription fragments from western Türkiye reveal a 15-year Roman tax fraud scheme so severe…
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1,800-Year-Old Statue of Asklepios Unearthed at Aspendos
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1,800-Year-Old Statue of Asklepios Unearthed at Aspendos
Archaeologists at Aspendos in southern Türkiye have uncovered a 2.20-metre marble statue of Asklepios, the god…
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Underwater Cave Bones Could Solve an Extinct Megafauna Mystery
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Underwater Cave Bones Could Solve an Extinct Megafauna Mystery
Griffith University researchers have identified distinctive chemical and biological "fingerprints" left on bones preserved in South…
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Fossil Fish Found Near South America’s Largest Meteorite Crater
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Fossil Fish Found Near South America’s Largest Meteorite Crater
A newly identified ray-finned fish, Leolepis matogrossensis, has been found near Araguainha, South America's largest meteorite…
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Azerbaijan’s 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen Unearthed
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Azerbaijan’s 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen Unearthed
At Tava Tepe in western Azerbaijan, archaeologists have found that a 3,200-year-old ceremonial kitchen was rebuilt…
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2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Found Beneath New German Highway
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2,000-Year-Old Roman Road Found Beneath New German Highway
Archaeologists in southwestern Germany have uncovered a 90-metre stretch of the Alblimes Road, a nearly 2,000-year-old…
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Scientists Find a New Metal Alloy Forged by the Hiroshima Bomb
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Scientists Find a New Metal Alloy Forged by the Hiroshima Bomb
A microscopic grain hidden inside glassy debris from Hiroshima Bay has turned out to be an…
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Chogha Mish Harp: Reviving Iran’s 6,000-Year-Old Sound
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Chogha Mish Harp: Reviving Iran’s 6,000-Year-Old Sound
A tiny fourth-millennium BCE seal from Chogha Mish, Iran, shows what may be the world's oldest…
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Sunk in Czech Marsh
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Sunk in Czech Marsh
A rare Bronze Age hoard found near Kojetín, Czech Republic, may not have been buried for…
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Two Ghost Ancestors Are Hiding in Every Human Genome
A UC Berkeley study in Science has found evidence of two unknown archaic human lineages in…
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The Face-Down Statue of Sardis That Survived 2,500 Years
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The Face-Down Statue of Sardis That Survived 2,500 Years
A 2.2-metre marble statue of a young man has been unearthed at ancient Sardis in Turkey…
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14 Sites, Three Empires: What Road Works Found Near Erbil
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14 Sites, Three Empires: What Road Works Found Near Erbil
Two road projects near Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan Region have exposed 14 previously unknown archaeological sites…
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Rome Fed a Million People. Climate Was Not the Main Threat.
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Rome Fed a Million People. Climate Was Not the Main Threat.
A study comparing 55 documented food shortages in ancient Rome with palaeoclimatic reconstructions found no consistent…
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How 3D Printing Gave Ancient Pottery a Built-In Health Monitor
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How 3D Printing Gave Ancient Pottery a Built-In Health Monitor
A team at Koc University has developed a method combining photogrammetry, 3D printing, and embedded sensors…
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What’s Buried Inside Brittany’s Neolithic Earth Mounds?
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What’s Buried Inside Brittany’s Neolithic Earth Mounds?
Electrical surveys at the Coeby Neolithic cemetery in Brittany have detected buried stone structures inside two…
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The Tiniest Ice Age Sculptures Found in Germany Are Two Birds
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The Tiniest Ice Age Sculptures Found in Germany Are Two Birds
Two mammoth ivory bird sculptures from 40,000 years ago were discovered at Hohle Fels Cave in…
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The Ancient City That Grew More Equal the More It Prospered
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The Ancient City That Grew More Equal the More It Prospered
Historians have long assumed that as cities grow, inequality follows. Mohenjo-daro did the opposite. A University…
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
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A 3,300-Year-Old Iron Dagger From the World Before Iron
A Hittite iron dagger at Turkey's Amasra Museum is 42.5 centimetres long, single-piece iron, and survives…
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At Perperikon, the Dead Lined the Road to the City
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At Perperikon, the Dead Lined the Road to the City
At Perperikon in southern Bulgaria, an eleventh circular Late Roman mausoleum and two rock-cut tombs linked…
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626 Marks on a Gate in Libya Were an Ancient Payroll System
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626 Marks on a Gate in Libya Were an Ancient Payroll System
For over 2,000 years, 626 carved letters and monograms on the Tauchira Gate at Ptolemais in…
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A Civilization of 3 Million People Was Hidden in the Amazon
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A Civilization of 3 Million People Was Hidden in the Amazon
A new LiDAR survey published in Nature reveals that the ancient Aquiry civilization of southwestern Amazonia…
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The Footprints That Were Too Big for the Expected Species
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The Footprints That Were Too Big for the Expected Species
Fossil footprints at East Turkana in Kenya, dated to 1.43 million years ago, show hominins that…
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
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Inverted, Symbolic, and 5,000 Years Old: The Gökhöyük Jar
At Gokhoyuk in central Turkey, archaeologists uncovered a 5,000-year-old ceramic jar decorated with a human face,…
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Human Effort, Glacier, or Both?
The Altar Stone at Stonehenge came from northeast Scotland, roughly 700 kilometres away. A new study…
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The Secret Behind China’s 2,000-Year-Old Rock Art
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The Secret Behind China’s 2,000-Year-Old Rock Art
For over 2,000 years, China's Huashan rock art has survived typhoons, monsoons, and extreme heat on…
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The Medieval Girl Buried With a Silver Door to the Afterlife
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The Medieval Girl Buried With a Silver Door to the Afterlife
A 1,300-year-old burial at the Zvyagino cemetery in Russia contains the richly decorated grave of a…
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
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Two Finds, 2,000 Years Apart, From the Same Turkish Mound
Archaeologists at Turkmen Karahoyuk in central Turkey uncovered a 3,500-year-old Hieroglyphic Luwian seal bearing an official's…
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The Food That Made Brazil Unequal, Preserved in Clay
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The Food That Made Brazil Unequal, Preserved in Clay
Molecular analysis of more than 180 ceramic pots used by four communities in 19th-century Babitonga Bay,…
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A Gold Coin, a Victory Goddess, and the Birth of Vindonissa
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A Gold Coin, a Victory Goddess, and the Birth of Vindonissa
An eleven-month rescue excavation at Vindonissa, Switzerland exposed the earliest Roman camp fortifications, a legionary barracks,…
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Before Kabasa Was a Capital, It Was a Sacred Ground
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Before Kabasa Was a Capital, It Was a Sacred Ground
Rescue excavations ahead of the Caculo Cabaca hydroelectric dam in Angola uncovered stone tumuli and burials…
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Bow, Fiddle, Hidden Name: A Turkic Tomb in Western Mongolia
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Bow, Fiddle, Hidden Name: A Turkic Tomb in Western Mongolia
In a hidden rock cave in Mongolia's Jargalant Khairkhan Mountains, a young Turkic warrior was buried…
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The Cave Where Fire Was Not About Heat for 25,000 Years
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The Cave Where Fire Was Not About Heat for 25,000 Years
Whole grasses were carried into Cloggs Cave in southeastern Australia and burned in low-temperature fires across…
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Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
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Peace in Unexpected Places: A Byzantine Burial at Ephesus
Two premature infants, possibly twins, were buried with care inside an abandoned Roman latrine at Ephesus…
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The Indigenous Settlements That Stayed After Spain Arrived
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The Indigenous Settlements That Stayed After Spain Arrived
INAH archaeologists surveying a highway route in Guerrero, Mexico identified two settlements, Camutla and Sacualpan, that…
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The Roman Armor From the Battle That Stopped an Empire
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The Roman Armor From the Battle That Stopped an Empire
A nearly complete Roman segmental armor from Kalkriese in Germany is the oldest of its kind…
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The 800-Year-Old Bridge Chester Castle Had Been Hiding
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The 800-Year-Old Bridge Chester Castle Had Been Hiding
Archaeologists from the University of Chester found an 800-year-old medieval bridge beneath Chester Castle without excavating…
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We Are Hungry: The Oldest Protest in Recorded History
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We Are Hungry: The Oldest Protest in Recorded History
In 1157 BCE, the craftsmen who built the Pharaoh's tomb in the Valley of the Kings…
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The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
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The Roman Main Street That Made Aspendos a Real City
Excavations at Aspendos on Turkey's Mediterranean coast have exposed 300 metres of a Roman main street…
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They Carried Fish Up Norwegian Mountains 7,000 Years Ago
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They Carried Fish Up Norwegian Mountains 7,000 Years Ago
Wooden fish traps found in the exposed bed of Lake Tesse in Norway date to around…
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A Mutilated Sword and a Stone Face: A Gaulish Farewell
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A Mutilated Sword and a Stone Face: A Gaulish Farewell
At a 2,100-year-old Gaulish farmstead near Tours in France, archaeologists found two unusual objects that document…
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A Roman Camp in Slovakia Where the Soldiers Never Left
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A Roman Camp in Slovakia Where the Soldiers Never Left
Near Surany in southwestern Slovakia, archaeologists uncovered a 7.4-hectare Roman military camp from the time of…
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Gran Carro: First Textile From Italy’s Sunken Village
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Gran Carro: First Textile From Italy’s Sunken Village
After more than 60 years of excavation beneath Lake Bolsena in central Italy, archaeologists at Gran…
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The Hellenistic Sacred Complex Found in North Macedonia
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The Hellenistic Sacred Complex Found in North Macedonia
Excavations at Gradiste in North Macedonia have uncovered a rare Hellenistic ritual complex from the 4th-3rd…
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Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
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Was Troy Real? The Archaeology Behind Homer’s Odyssey
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey just broke box office records. But was the world Homer described actually…
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Was Cookham Abbey Britain’s First Hospital?
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Was Cookham Abbey Britain’s First Hospital?
Excavations at Cookham Abbey in Berkshire have uncovered 8th and 9th-century skeletons showing cancer, infections, and…
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Eight Sandals Thrown Away in a Spanish Mine 2,000 Years Ago
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Eight Sandals Thrown Away in a Spanish Mine 2,000 Years Ago
Archaeologists found eight esparto sandals discarded in ash pits at Spain's ancient Riotinto mines. Published in…
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The SS Found a Woman’s Skull and Called It King Henry I
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The SS Found a Woman’s Skull and Called It King Henry I
In 1937, the SS announced they had found the remains of King Henry I beneath a…
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Ann Izzard and the Last Witch Persecution in Rural England
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Ann Izzard and the Last Witch Persecution in Rural England
Parliament had abolished England's witchcraft laws in 1736. In 1808, none of that stopped a mob…
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Yatzil: A Young Woman Found Deep in a Mexican Cenote
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Yatzil: A Young Woman Found Deep in a Mexican Cenote
Technical divers descending into Cenote Yaakun near Playa del Carmen, Mexico, passed through a hydrogen sulphide…
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Costa Rica’s Airport Dig Found the Village, Not the Spheres
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Costa Rica’s Airport Dig Found the Village, Not the Spheres
Before building a new international airport in Costa Rica's Diquis Delta, the government sent archaeologists in…
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The Cave That Holds the Neolithic Transition in Catalonia
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The Cave That Holds the Neolithic Transition in Catalonia
A 2026 excavation at Coves del Fem in Catalonia recovered Early Neolithic Cardial remains sitting directly…
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What a Roman Latrine Taught Engineers About Lasting Concrete
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What a Roman Latrine Taught Engineers About Lasting Concrete
A concrete sample from beneath a latrine seat at Hadrian's Villa reveals why Roman structures outlast…
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Ancient Egyptian Princesses May Have Been Trained Archers
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Ancient Egyptian Princesses May Have Been Trained Archers
Five Egyptian princesses buried at Dahshur 4,000 years ago were interred with bows, arrows, and daggers.…
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The Horse Pendant That Might Not Be a Horse
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The Horse Pendant That Might Not Be a Horse
A broken medieval amulet from Pskov, Russia, belongs to a class usually called horse pendants. But…
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The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
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The Roman Pool at Tralleis That 5,000 People Used in a Day
Archaeologists have fully uncovered a 2,000-year-old cold-water swimming pool at Tralleis in western Turkey, 37 metres…
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Eye of God: A 3,800-Year-Old Ritual Offering From Peru
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Eye of God: A 3,800-Year-Old Ritual Offering From Peru
In a space just 22 centimetres long, archaeologists at Peñico in Peru found 43 carved wooden…
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A Gold Diadem on a Child’s Forehead: Bronze Age Cyprus
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A Gold Diadem on a Child’s Forehead: Bronze Age Cyprus
Nine gold diadems from Bronze Age tombs at Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus include one still resting…
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Five Graves Near Chelmsford Rewrote Iron Age History
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Five Graves Near Chelmsford Rewrote Iron Age History
A 2,000-year-old Iron Age cemetery near Chelmsford has yielded five elite burials with Roman wine jars,…
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A God From Turkey, Worshipped by Roman Soldiers in Georgia
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A God From Turkey, Worshipped by Roman Soldiers in Georgia
A gold plaque inscribed in Greek, found at the Roman fort of Apsaros on Georgia's Black…
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Bronze Age Armenia: The Elite Tomb With a Sacrificed Horse
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Bronze Age Armenia: The Elite Tomb With a Sacrificed Horse
A monumental Late Bronze Age tomb at Shamiram in Armenia has yielded bronze weapons, obsidian arrowheads,…
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How Cyprus Rewrites the History of Pigeon Domestication
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How Cyprus Rewrites the History of Pigeon Domestication
New research in Antiquity reveals that pigeons at Bronze Age Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus were…
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Greek Military Camp Found on Alexander’s Eastern Frontier
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Greek Military Camp Found on Alexander’s Eastern Frontier
A hilltop in southern Uzbekistan that looked like a small rural settlement has been identified as…
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Haughey’s Fort: Bronze Age Ireland’s Proto-Urban Powerhouse
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Haughey’s Fort: Bronze Age Ireland’s Proto-Urban Powerhouse
New research in Antiquity reinterprets Haughey’s Fort, Northern Ireland, as one of Western Europe’s earliest proto-urban…
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A Bad Death in Iberia: Decapitation, Antlers, and Ritual Violence
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A Bad Death in Iberia: Decapitation, Antlers, and Ritual Violence
At an Iberian fortified settlement in Spain, archaeologists uncovered two violently killed men buried outside the…
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How a Royal Name Cracked a 4,000-Year-Old Iranian Script
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How a Royal Name Cracked a 4,000-Year-Old Iranian Script
For over a century, Linear Elamite defeated every scholar who attempted to read it. An international…
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Forgotten Wreck Reveals Britain’s Secret Lead Trade Empire
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Forgotten Wreck Reveals Britain’s Secret Lead Trade Empire
Scanning for WWII ordnance at the Hornsea 3 wind farm site in the North Sea, surveyors…
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Bad Dürrenberg: The Bone Defect That May Have Made a Shaman
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Bad Dürrenberg: The Bone Defect That May Have Made a Shaman
A 9,000-year-old German woman buried with extraordinary grave goods was long interpreted as a shaman. CT…
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Zero Male Markers: Homo naledi Cave May Be All-Female
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Zero Male Markers: Homo naledi Cave May Be All-Female
Scientists extracted ancient proteins from 20 Homo naledi teeth in South Africa's Rising Star Cave and…
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Minanbé: Intact Maya City Found in Mexico’s Jungle
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Minanbé: Intact Maya City Found in Mexico’s Jungle
Deep in Mexico's Calakmul jungle, a Mexican-Slovenian team has uncovered Minanbé, an intact Maya city untouched…
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When Clay Met Fire: 11,400-Year-Old Pottery Attempts at Çemka Höyük
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When Clay Met Fire: 11,400-Year-Old Pottery Attempts at Çemka Höyük
At Çemka Höyük in Turkey, archaeologists discovered 46 clay fragments from 9,350 BC showing early experiments…
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Tombs in Minya May Reveal Where Egypt’s Pyramid Architecture Was Born
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Tombs in Minya May Reveal Where Egypt’s Pyramid Architecture Was Born
Excavations at the Jabal al-Tayr necropolis in Minya have uncovered two Early Dynastic tombs featuring a…
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