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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
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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.
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?
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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?
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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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
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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
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
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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
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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600-Year-Old Tools Reveal Ming Dynasty Surgical Anesthetic
Archaeology
600-Year-Old Tools Reveal Ming Dynasty Surgical Anesthetic
Raman spectroscopy analysis of iron surgical tools from a 14th-century Ming dynasty tomb has revealed aconitine…
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Mohenjo-daro Grew More Equal as It Expanded, New Study Finds
Archaeology
Mohenjo-daro Grew More Equal as It Expanded, New Study Finds
A new study from the University of York reveals that Mohenjo-daro, the great Bronze Age city…
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Eight Burials Found in 1,700-Year-Old Tomb at Tula, Mexico
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Eight Burials Found in 1,700-Year-Old Tomb at Tula, Mexico
Archaeologists in Tula, Mexico have uncovered eight burials and 47 ceramic vessels inside a 1,700-year-old shaft…
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First Medieval Crossbow Nut Found in Anatolia
Archaeology
First Medieval Crossbow Nut Found in Anatolia
A fragment of bone from Turkey's Kubadabad Palace has been identified as the first medieval crossbow…
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Roman Tomb of an Aristocratic Woman Found at Olympos
Archaeology
Roman Tomb of an Aristocratic Woman Found at Olympos
Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a third monumental tomb at ancient Olympos containing a marble sarcophagus…
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Plain of Jars Mystery: First Direct Evidence Revealed
Archaeology
Plain of Jars Mystery: First Direct Evidence Revealed
For nearly a century, the giant stone jars of Laos defied explanation. Now researchers have found…
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Sudan Desert Graves Reveal the World Before Pharaonic Egypt
Archaeology
Sudan Desert Graves Reveal the World Before Pharaonic Egypt
Satellite imagery has revealed 260 previously unknown enclosure burial monuments across the Atbai Desert in eastern…
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Scurvy in Ancient California and the Hidden Cost of Pregnancy
Archaeology
Scurvy in Ancient California and the Hidden Cost of Pregnancy
A new study in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology has found skeletal evidence of scurvy in…
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The Sardinian Tower That Was Reborn as a Sacred Site
Archaeology
The Sardinian Tower That Was Reborn as a Sacred Site
A new study in Open Archaeology reveals that Nuraghe Barru, a 3,200-year-old stone tower in south-central…
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Beneath a Polish Field
Archaeology
3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Beneath a Polish Field
A licensed detectorist working a field near Buniatycze in south-eastern Poland has uncovered 18 bronze bracelets…
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Bell Beaker Pots in Poland Held the Region’s Oldest Alcohol
Archaeology
Bell Beaker Pots in Poland Held the Region’s Oldest Alcohol
Chemical analysis of 13 Bell Beaker vessels from north-eastern Poland has confirmed the region's oldest known…
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4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Texts Are Now Readable in Arabic
For the first time, the world's largest digital archive of cuneiform texts is accessible in Arabic.…
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Stone Age Cannibalism or Sacred Ritual? Denmark’s Dyrholm Mystery
Archaeology
Stone Age Cannibalism or Sacred Ritual? Denmark’s Dyrholm Mystery
Along a vanished fjord in eastern Jutland, roughly 160 scattered human bones bearing cut marks, fresh…
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Intact Roman Grave Found Beneath Vinkovci City Market
Archaeology
Intact Roman Grave Found Beneath Vinkovci City Market
Beneath a construction site in eastern Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a rare unlooted Roman grave sealed…
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Viking Gold Hoard Unearthed in Northern Denmark
Archaeology
Viking Gold Hoard Unearthed in Northern Denmark
A local resident's chance discovery near the village of Rold in northern Denmark has yielded six…
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The Wall That Guarded a Memory: A Bronze Age Mystery Unearthed in Bosnia
Archaeology
The Wall That Guarded a Memory: A Bronze Age Mystery Unearthed in Bosnia
Archaeologists in Bosnia uncovered a massive Bronze Age stone wall built not for defense but to…
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Uncovering the Odysseion: The Ancient Cult Sanctuary of a Mythical King on Ithaca
Archaeology
Uncovering the Odysseion: The Ancient Cult Sanctuary of a Mythical King on Ithaca
Discover the incredible Odysseion on Ithaca, a grand ancient sanctuary dedicated to legendary King Odysseus, blurring…
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The Forbidden Dionysian Rites Revealed on the Walls of Pompeii
Archaeology
The Forbidden Dionysian Rites Revealed on the Walls of Pompeii
A newly discovered banquet hall in Pompeii reveals stunning life size paintings of forbidden Dionysian initiation…
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Shadows on the Plain: Uncovering a Massive Ancient Sanctuary for the Chosen Few
Archaeology
Shadows on the Plain: Uncovering a Massive Ancient Sanctuary for the Chosen Few
Deep in the Belize jungle, archaeologists have uncovered the lost tomb of Caracols founding Maya king…
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Ancient Human DNA Recovered From a Prehistoric Tooth Pendant
Archaeology
Ancient Human DNA Recovered From a Prehistoric Tooth Pendant
Scientists have unlocked human DNA from a prehistoric tooth pendant. Learn how a breakthrough washing technique…
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The Lost Aphrodisiac: How the Most Valuable Plant in the Roman Empire Vanished Forever
Archaeology
The Lost Aphrodisiac: How the Most Valuable Plant in the Roman Empire Vanished Forever
Uncover the captivating mystery of silphium, the ancient Roman plant prized as a powerful contraceptive and…
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