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Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Forged From Meteorites
Archaeology
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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Whole Spelt and Pottery Emerge From a Sunken Italian Village
Archaeology
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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Azerbaijan’s 3,200-Year-Old Ceremonial Kitchen Unearthed
Archaeology
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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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Hoard Found Sunk in Czech Marsh
Archaeology
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charred Bronze Age Teeth Are Unlocking Age at Death After 3,000 Years
Archaeology
Charred Bronze Age Teeth Are Unlocking Age at Death After 3,000 Years
A new Scientific Reports study has found that microscopic growth lines in tooth roots can survive…
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Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 700km from Scotland by Neolithic People
Archaeology
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone Was Hauled 700km from Scotland by Neolithic People
A new study combining mineral grain dating and ice-sheet modeling has confirmed that Stonehenge's six-tonne Altar…
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4,000-Year-Old Child’s Skull in Uzbekistan Reveals Earliest Surgery in Central Asia
Archaeology
4,000-Year-Old Child’s Skull in Uzbekistan Reveals Earliest Surgery in Central Asia
Archaeologists excavating the Bronze Age settlement of Djarkutan in Uzbekistan have uncovered the skull of a…
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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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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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Oracle Bones Reveal the Climate Disaster That Destroyed the Shang Dynasty
Archaeology
Oracle Bones Reveal the Climate Disaster That Destroyed the Shang Dynasty
Ancient oracle bones reveal how massive floods and shifting typhoons crushed China's powerful Shang dynasty long…
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Whispers from the Loom: 5,000-Year-Old Fabric Uncovered in Bulgarian Cave
Archaeology
Whispers from the Loom: 5,000-Year-Old Fabric Uncovered in Bulgarian Cave
In a rare discovery, archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old hemp textiles in Bulgaria's Magura Cave, preserved by…
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Digital Map Resurrects Lost Bronze Age World in Ancient Anatolia
Archaeology
Digital Map Resurrects Lost Bronze Age World in Ancient Anatolia
A new open-access digital database maps 483 forgotten Bronze Age settlements in western Anatolia, revealing a…
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