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A Resident’s Find in Egypt’s Nile Delta Led to a 1.6-Meter Ramesses II Head From a Statue Estimated at 8.5 MetersINAH Says a Puebla Complex Worked as a Solar Observatory Over 2,500 Years Ago, the First Outside the Maya AreaBone Needles From a 13,800-Year-Old Alaska, USA, Camp Are the Oldest in the Western HemisphereA Fossil From the Isle of Wight Is a New Long-Clawed Predator, About 120 Million Years Old and Probably Human-SizedA Danish Museum’s Cuneiform Tablets Hint at Gilgamesh and Record a Beer Receipt

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80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads May Rewrite Sapiens’ Route to Europe
Archaeology
80,000-Year-Old Arrowheads May Rewrite Sapiens’ Route to Europe
Tiny 80,000-year-old projectile points from Uzbekistan's Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter closely match weapons made by Homo sapiens…
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Surprisingly Large Hominin
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1.4-Million-Year-Old Footprints Reveal a Surprisingly Large Hominin
Fossil footprints from a Kenyan lakeshore capture eight Paranthropus boisei individuals traveling together 1.4 million years…
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Fire Use at Wonderwerk Cave Pushed Back to 1.79 Million Years
Archaeology
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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Denisovan Leg Bones Suggest They Towered Over Homo Erectus
Archaeology
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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Why Neanderthal Toddlers Grew Twice as Fast as Modern Humans
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Why Neanderthal Toddlers Grew Twice as Fast as Modern Humans
A fragile Neanderthal skeleton found in Israel reveals that ancient toddlers grew twice as fast as…
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How Ancient Elephants Fueled the Evolution of the Human Brain
Archaeology
How Ancient Elephants Fueled the Evolution of the Human Brain
Discover how a 1.8 million year old butchered elephant found in Tanzania reveals the dietary secrets…
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The 1.77 Million Year Old Yunxian Skulls Rewriting Human History in Asia
Archaeology
The 1.77 Million Year Old Yunxian Skulls Rewriting Human History in Asia
The Yunxian skulls of central China have been redated to an incredible 1.77 million years old,…
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Morocco’s 773,000-year-old fossils reveal our Neanderthal-human common ancestor’s chomped bones
Archaeology
Morocco’s 773,000-year-old fossils reveal our Neanderthal-human common ancestor’s chomped bones
Newly discovered 773,000 year old fossils from Casablanca, Morocco, reveal a mosaic of ancient and modern…
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First Steps: 7-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Human Walking
Archaeology
First Steps: 7-Million-Year-Old Fossil Rewrites the Story of Human Walking
A groundbreaking study on a 7-million-year-old fossil from Chad reveals Sahelanthropus tchadensis could walk upright, rewriting…
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Tiny Greek Village Discovery Could Overturn Every Human Evolution Theory Ever Written
Archaeology
Tiny Greek Village Discovery Could Overturn Every Human Evolution Theory Ever Written
Ancient fossils discovered in a Greek village are challenging 154 years of human evolutionary science. The…
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Ancient Human Jawbone Found in Taiwan Revealed as Denisovan
Archaeology
Ancient Human Jawbone Found in Taiwan Revealed as Denisovan
A fossilized jawbone found off Taiwan confirms Denisovans lived in Southeast Asia, expanding their known range…
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Tiny Human Ancestor Found: 2-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows Signs of Leopard Attack
Archaeology
Tiny Human Ancestor Found: 2-Million-Year-Old Fossil Shows Signs of Leopard Attack
A 2-million-year-old Paranthropus robustus fossil found in South Africa’s Swartkrans cave reveals a remarkably small adult…
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A Mysterious Ancient Population Gave Us 20% of Our DNA—And May Have Boosted Human Intelligence
Archaeology
A Mysterious Ancient Population Gave Us 20% of Our DNA—And May Have Boosted Human Intelligence
Scientists have discovered that 20% of modern human DNA comes from a mysterious, unidentified ancestor. What…
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Neanderthals, Early Humans, and a Mysterious Hominin Lived and Interbred in Ancient Israeli Caves, Study Reveals
Archaeology
Neanderthals, Early Humans, and a Mysterious Hominin Lived and Interbred in Ancient Israeli Caves, Study Reveals
Archaeologists uncover ancient burials in Israel's Tinshemet Cave, revealing evidence of cultural and genetic exchanges between…
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Foragers or Farmers? Ancient DNA Reveals Maghreb’s Unexpected Neolithic Story
Archaeology
Foragers or Farmers? Ancient DNA Reveals Maghreb’s Unexpected Neolithic Story

New DNA analysis of ancient Maghreb populations reveals genetic continuity during the Neolithic, challenging the idea…
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28,000-Year-Old Child’s Skeleton Holds a Stunning Clue About Human-Neanderthal Hybrids
Archaeology
28,000-Year-Old Child’s Skeleton Holds a Stunning Clue About Human-Neanderthal Hybrids
The Lagar Velho Child, a rare human-Neanderthal hybrid, has been precisely dated using a new protein-based…
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