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Another Mysterious Bronze Age Tablet Emerges Near Lake Garda
Archaeology
Another Mysterious Bronze Age Tablet Emerges Near Lake Garda
Archaeologists excavating the prehistoric pile-dwelling site of Lucone di Polpenazze near Lake Garda have uncovered a…
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Giant Crocodylians Ruled Miocene South America’s Food Chain
Archaeology
Giant Crocodylians Ruled Miocene South America’s Food Chain
A study of fossil bite marks from Colombia shows that giant crocodylians, especially the seven-meter, 1,800-kilogram…
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Drone Survey Reveals a Massive Ancient Farm Field in Michigan
Archaeology
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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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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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
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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Highway Construction Near Haifa Reveals a 400,000-Year-Old Sealed Cave
Archaeology
Highway Construction Near Haifa Reveals a 400,000-Year-Old Sealed Cave
Highway construction near Fureidis, south of Haifa, has breached a cave sealed for between 400,000 and…
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Eleven Dots on a Broken Clay Head May Be Mesoamerica’s Oldest Numbers
Archaeology
Eleven Dots on a Broken Clay Head May Be Mesoamerica’s Oldest Numbers
A fragmentary clay figurine from La Blanca, Guatemala, dated to 750-650 BCE, carries eleven impressed dots…
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Railway Workers in Sonora Uncovered a 1,200-Year-Old Village on the US-Mexico Border
Archaeology
Railway Workers in Sonora Uncovered a 1,200-Year-Old Village on the US-Mexico Border
Salvage excavations ahead of a railway bypass in Sonora, Mexico have uncovered La Ciénega, a Trincheras…
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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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Ancient Humans Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago, Cave Evidence Suggests
Archaeology
Ancient Humans Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago, Cave Evidence Suggests
A new PLOS One study using a novel bone luminescence technique has found evidence of deliberate…
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Stone Age Antler Axe Pulled from the Vistula River Near Warsaw
Archaeology
Stone Age Antler Axe Pulled from the Vistula River Near Warsaw
A local resident walking the banks of the Vistula River near Warsaw spotted what looked like…
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Spain’s 5,000-Year-Old Mass Grave Holds 1,300 Souls
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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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The Invisible Enemy That Silenced Europe’s First Farmers
Archaeology
The Invisible Enemy That Silenced Europe’s First Farmers
Ancient DNA reveals how the early plague wiped out Neolithic farming communities in France 5,000 years…
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The Twelve Thousand Year Old Dice Game That Built Ancient America
Archaeology
The Twelve Thousand Year Old Dice Game That Built Ancient America
Discover how Native Americans invented dice nearly twelve thousand years ago. These games were designed to…
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The Dark Secret of Goyet Cave Unveils Brutal Prehistoric Predation
Archaeology
The Dark Secret of Goyet Cave Unveils Brutal Prehistoric Predation
New research from a Belgian cave reveals a dark secret of human history. Scientists have uncovered…
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Unveiling Stonehenge’s Hidden Sister: A Colossal Neolithic Discovery Rewrites History
Archaeology
Unveiling Stonehenge’s Hidden Sister: A Colossal Neolithic Discovery Rewrites History
A monumental Neolithic pit circle, recently unearthed near Stonehenge, reshapes our understanding of ancient societies and…
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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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Obsidian from 1,200 KM Away Found in Canada—Revealing Ancient Trade Secrets
Archaeology
Obsidian from 1,200 KM Away Found in Canada—Revealing Ancient Trade Secrets
Obsidian tools found in Alberta reveal a 1,200-km trade network among prehistoric Indigenous groups, highlighting complex…
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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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