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Ming Surgical Tools Carry Traces of a Toxic Plant Anesthetic
Archaeology
Ming Surgical Tools Carry Traces of a Toxic Plant Anesthetic
Raman spectroscopy of iron scissors and tweezers from the Ming-era tomb of Xia Quan in Jiangyin…
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Bronze Age Man Under a Hearth in Spain May Reflect a Ritual
Archaeology
Bronze Age Man Under a Hearth in Spain May Reflect a Ritual
A man of about 40 was sealed between two floors at La Almoloya in Spain, his…
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Child’s Skull Set Into a Danish Iron Age House Floor
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Child’s Skull Set Into a Danish Iron Age House Floor
A study of 192 human bones from domestic spaces in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia found…
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A 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Dog Named for the Underworld
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A 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Dog Named for the Underworld
Enhanced images of a 3,500-year-old tomb at Thebes revealed the faint name of a third dog…
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Face of an 8,000-Year-Old Jiahu Man Rebuilt in China
Archaeology
Face of an 8,000-Year-Old Jiahu Man Rebuilt in China
Researchers in Henan and Jilin built a 3D facial reconstruction of a man who died at…
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Cacao DNA Found on Mississippian Pottery in Georgia
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Cacao DNA Found on Mississippian Pottery in Georgia
Ancient DNA from Theobroma cacao was found on two Etowah pottery sherds from 11th to 12th…
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3,000-Year-Old Tomb of Paser Found Near Luxor
Archaeology
3,000-Year-Old Tomb of Paser Found Near Luxor
While clearing debris to protect tombs from flash floods in the Theban necropolis near Luxor, a…
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Bronze Age Greece: Young Adults Moved, Not Whole Families
Archaeology
Bronze Age Greece: Young Adults Moved, Not Whole Families
A strontium isotope study of 199 Bronze Age individuals from Greece finds that 5 to 10…
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Roman Temple Found in a German Forest Near Kapersburg
Archaeology
Roman Temple Found in a German Forest Near Kapersburg
Archaeologists in Germany's Taunus forest have identified the foundations of a Roman temple beside Kapersburg fort,…
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Nimrud’s Lower City Mapped: Where Most Assyrians Lived
Archaeology
Nimrud’s Lower City Mapped: Where Most Assyrians Lived
University of Udine researchers mapped more than 800 acres around Nimrud's acropolis, the walled lower city…
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Butchered Gomphothere Bones in Chile Show Early Americans
Archaeology
Butchered Gomphothere Bones in Chile Show Early Americans
Excavations at Lake Tagua Tagua in central Chile found gomphothere bones with cut marks and stone…
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Life-Size Rock Carving in Sudan May Show a Kushite King
Archaeology
Life-Size Rock Carving in Sudan May Show a Kushite King
University of Warsaw archaeologists think a life-size petroglyph at Miseeda in northern Sudan may depict a…
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934 Roman Silver Coins Found Near Cologne, Germany
Archaeology
934 Roman Silver Coins Found Near Cologne, Germany
A licensed metal detectorist near Wesseling, Germany, found 934 Roman silver denarii from Hadrian's reign, one…
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Swiss Heatwave Reveals Lost Roman Aventicum From the Air
Archaeology
Swiss Heatwave Reveals Lost Roman Aventicum From the Air
Switzerland's hottest summer on record exposed parch marks over Roman Aventicum, revealing baths, houses, roads and…
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Africa’s Oldest Defensive Wall Outside Egypt Found in Morocco
Archaeology
Africa’s Oldest Defensive Wall Outside Egypt Found in Morocco
Archaeologists report 3,500 to 4,000-year-old ditches and ramparts at Oued Beht, Morocco, the oldest known defensive…
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Clay Tablets Capture the Final Days of Ancient Qabra
Archaeology
Clay Tablets Capture the Final Days of Ancient Qabra
A UCF-led dig at Kurd Qaburstan in Iraq found 20 cuneiform tablets, some written within days…
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Roman Remains Found Under Bath’s Jane Austen Ballroom
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Roman Remains Found Under Bath’s Jane Austen Ballroom
Restoration of Bath Assembly Rooms uncovered Roman ditches, coins, pottery and a fragment of a military…
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700-Year-Old Skull in China Shows Nose Amputation
Archaeology
700-Year-Old Skull in China Shows Nose Amputation
A face-down burial in Henan, China, holds the first skeletal evidence of punitive nose amputation. The…
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Not All Roads Led to Rome, a New Roman Road Map Shows
Archaeology
Not All Roads Led to Rome, a New Roman Road Map Shows
A Nature Communications study of nearly 300,000 km of Roman roads finds that Rome ranked behind…
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5,000-Year-Old Poland Grave Held a 42-Tooth Necklace
Archaeology
5,000-Year-Old Poland Grave Held a 42-Tooth Necklace
Archaeologists near Wrocław found a 5,000-year-old grave with a battle ax, two skulls and a necklace…
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Pharaoh’s ‘Keeper of Secrets’ Tomb Found at Saqqara
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Pharaoh’s ‘Keeper of Secrets’ Tomb Found at Saqqara
Archaeologists found the tomb of Sekhentio-Ptah, a pyramid-age official titled keeper of the secrets of royal…
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1,300-Year-Old Mosque Uncovered in Saudi Arabia
Archaeology
1,300-Year-Old Mosque Uncovered in Saudi Arabia
Archaeologists uncovered a 1,300-year-old granite mosque in Saudi Arabia, complete with its mihrab, minaret, and 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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Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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.
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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?
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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?
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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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Science
Ancient Bones Reveal What Smaller Maya Communities Actually Ate
Stable isotope analysis of bones from non-elite burials across smaller Maya sites in Guatemala's southeastern Peten…
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Bow, Fiddle, Hidden Name: A Turkic Tomb in Western Mongolia
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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?
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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
Archaeology
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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A Roman Curse Tablet from the Netherlands Was Written in Egyptian-Style Greek
Archaeology
A Roman Curse Tablet from the Netherlands Was Written in Egyptian-Style Greek
A lead curse tablet found beneath the town hall square in Heerlen, Netherlands, has been deciphered…
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Inca Child Mummies on Llullaillaco Were Sacrificed to Anchor Imperial Power in 1499
Archaeology
Inca Child Mummies on Llullaillaco Were Sacrificed to Anchor Imperial Power in 1499
A new study dating plant seeds buried with the Llullaillaco Maiden has narrowed the famous capacocha…
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First Pirate Shipwrecks of the Golden Age Found in Nassau Harbour
Archaeology
First Pirate Shipwrecks of the Golden Age Found in Nassau Harbour
For the first time in history, archaeologists have found shipwrecks directly linked to the Golden Age…
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Elite Woman Buried with Horse and Gold Earrings in the Sayan Mountains
Archaeology
Elite Woman Buried with Horse and Gold Earrings in the Sayan Mountains
Archaeologists excavating a medieval cemetery near the Idzhim River in Russia's Krasnoyarsk region have uncovered the…
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Snowmelt Reveals Ancient Walled Sanctuary on Mount Lifos in Türkiye
Archaeology
Snowmelt Reveals Ancient Walled Sanctuary on Mount Lifos in Türkiye
Each spring, when the snow retreats from the summit of Mount Lifos in central Türkiye, it…
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Spain’s 5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Holds 1,300 Souls
Archaeology
Spain’s 5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Holds 1,300 Souls
A new study of Europe's largest Copper Age burial site in Spain reveals that 92% of…
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Silk Toilet Paper in an 800-Year-Old German Latrine
Archaeology
Silk Toilet Paper in an 800-Year-Old German Latrine
Archaeologists in Paderborn, Germany uncovered a medieval latrine hiding luxury silk used as toilet paper and…
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The Necromanteion: Ancient Oracle of the Dead Unmasked
Archaeology
The Necromanteion: Ancient Oracle of the Dead Unmasked
The Necromanteion, the ancient Greek Oracle of the Dead, is famous for its alleged theatrical ghost-cranes…
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How the Maya Thrived in Wetlands After Their Cities Fell
Archaeology
How the Maya Thrived in Wetlands After Their Cities Fell
A new PNAS study reveals that a Maya community at the Birds of Paradise wetland complex…
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Sacred Plants and Ritual Drugs in Ancient Maya Culture
Archaeology
Sacred Plants and Ritual Drugs in Ancient Maya Culture
The ancient Maya embedded psychoactive plants including tobacco, morning glory seeds, Datura, and fermented balché into…
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Ancient Bones’ Microbiomes Reveal the Secrets of Their Decay
Archaeology
Ancient Bones’ Microbiomes Reveal the Secrets of Their Decay
A new PLOS One study from the University of Stavanger reveals that well-preserved archaeological bones harbor…
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Apollo Sanctuary Yields 20+ Votive Statue Bases In Situ on Cyprus
Archaeology
Apollo Sanctuary Yields 20+ Votive Statue Bases In Situ on Cyprus
More than 20 votive statue bases, several still bearing the feet of their original statues, have…
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Popular Anti-Aging Drug Combo Damaged Brains in Mouse Study
Health
Popular Anti-Aging Drug Combo Damaged Brains in Mouse Study
A new PNAS study from the University of Connecticut found that dasatinib and quercetin, a popular…
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Payre Fossils Show Neanderthals Actively Evolved Over Time
Archaeology
Payre Fossils Show Neanderthals Actively Evolved Over Time
Nine fossil teeth from the Payre cave site in southeastern France, analyzed using micro-CT and geometric…
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