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Apr. 19, 2024 The Dura-Europos site in modern-day Syria is famous for its exceptional state of preservation. Like Pompeii, this ancient city has yielded many great discoveries, and serves as a window into the ...
Apr. 17, 2024 New research has highlighted an area in Arabia that once acted as a key point for cultural exchanges and trades amongst ancient people -- and it all took place in vast caves and lava tubes that have remained largely untapped reservoirs of ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Byzantine bullion fueled Europe's revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne's Francia a century later, new tests reveal. The findings could transform our understanding of ...
Apr. 5, 2024 A new reconstruction of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish Tiktaalik -- a close relative of limbed vertebrates -- used micro-CT to reveal bones still embedded in matrix. The reconstruction shows that the fish's ribs likely attached to its pelvis, ...
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Mar. 28, 2024 What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...
Mar. 25, 2024 For centuries, the Cerne Giant, a figure carved into a hillside in Dorset, has fascinated locals and visitors to the area. A new paper proposes that the Cerne Giant can in fact be dated to the early ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location ...
Mar. 22, 2024 Archaeological analysis of a near unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed there was an international horse ...
Mar. 22, 2024 A team of archaeologists discovered tiny microplastic particles in deposits located more than seven meters deep, in samples dating back to the first ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Scientists have uncovered the fossilized skull of a 270-million-year-old ancient amphibian ancestor in the collection of the Smithsonian's National ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Detailed reports on thousands of artifacts pulled from 'Britain's Pompeii' reveals the surprisingly sophisticated domestic lives of Bronze Age Fen ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Archaeologists rediscovers 46 sites at the Eastern Sovereign Base Area at Dhekelia, Cyprus. Archaeologists located sites from archive records, a number of which were thought to have been 'lost.' They ...
Feb. 29, 2024 A 30 million year-old fossil whale may not be the heaviest animal of all time after all, according to a new analysis by paleontologists. The new analysis puts Perucetus colossus back in the same ...
Feb. 26, 2024 While many aspects of Philistine culture are well-documented, the specifics of Philistine religious practices and deities have long remained shrouded ...
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Apr. 2, 2024 A new data crowdsourcing platform aims to preserve the sound of Romeyka, an endangered millennia-old variety of Greek. Experts consider the language to be a linguistic goldmine and a living bridge to ...
Feb. 20, 2024 By analysing ancient DNA, an international team of researchers have uncovered cases of chromosomal disorders, including what could be the first case of Edwards syndrome ever identified from ...
Feb. 8, 2024 Following the arrival of the first farmers in Scandinavia 5,900 years ago, the hunter-gatherer population was wiped out within a few generations, according to a new study. The results, which are ...
Feb. 6, 2024 A mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture characterizes the Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha in northwestern Thailand. Between 2,300 and 1,000 years ago, individuals were buried in large wooden ...
Feb. 2, 2024 Using advanced geospatial modeling to compare environmental and archaeological evidence, researchers found evidence that connects ancient mobility and subsistence strategies to cultural connections ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's? Medical texts from 2,500 years ago rarely mention severe memory loss, suggesting today's widespread dementia stems from modern ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Archaeologists have debated whether Neanderthals or modern humans made stone tools that are found at sites across northern Europe and date from about 40,000 years ago. A new excavation at one site in ...
Jan. 29, 2024 A new study, which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal locomotion courtesy of a novel method: ...
Jan. 24, 2024 The brown bear is one of the largest living terrestrial carnivores, and is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere. Unlike many other large carnivores that went extinct at the end of the ...
Jan. 17, 2024 When combined with data from tree-ring records, stalagmites can open up a unique archive to study natural climate fluctuations, a research team has demonstrated. The researchers analyzed the isotopic ...
Jan. 17, 2024 Researchers have linked the travels of a 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth with the oldest known human settlements in Alaska, providing clues about the relationship between the iconic species and some ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have identified a 3D fragment of fossilized skin that is at least 21 million years than previously described skin fossils. The skin, which belonged to an early species of Paleozoic ...
Jan. 11, 2024 A new study shows how state-of-the-art methods and perspectives from archaeology, history, and palaeoecology are shedding new light on 5,500 years of urban ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have developed a new technique to measure the number of chromosomes in ancient genomes more precisely, using it to identify the first prehistoric person with mosaic Turner syndrome ...
Jan. 10, 2024 The largest ever primate Gigantopithecus blacki went extinct when other Asian great apes were thriving, and its demise has long been a mystery. A massive regional study of 22 caves in southern China ...
Jan. 9, 2024 A new study describes nine new species of carnivorous land snails, all of which are so small they could fit together on a U.S. nickel. They present a rare opportunity to study a group that in many ...
Jan. 5, 2024 Researchers have discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman ...
Jan. 4, 2024 A new study scientifically corroborates an event described in the Second Book of Kings -- the conquest of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael King of Aram. The method is based on measuring the ...
Dec. 21, 2023 An archaeological find in the Huescan Pyrenees allowed researchers to identify for the first time livestock management strategies and feeding practices which demonstrate how the first high mountain ...
Dec. 14, 2023 Widespread caries and toothache -- but also some dental work and filing of front teeth. Viking Age teeth from Varnhem bear witness to surprisingly advanced ...
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- Did Dementia Exist in Ancient Greek and Rome?
- Neanderthals and Humans Lived Side by Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago
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- Oldest Known Fossilized Skin Is 21 Million Years Older Than Previous Examples
- Ancient Cities Provide Key Datasets for Urban Planning, Policy and Predictions in the Anthropocene
- Prehistoric Person With Turner Syndrome Identified from Ancient DNA
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- Decoding Past Climates Through Dripstones
- Dishing the Dirt on Human Evolution: Why Scientific Techniques Matter in Archaeology
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- Neanderthals Were the World's First Artists, Research Reveals
- Curators and Cavers: How a Tip from a Citizen Scientist Led to Deep Discoveries in Utah's Caves
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- In Prehispanic Cancun, Immigrants Were Treated Just Like Maya Locals
- Climate Change Likely Impacted Human Populations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age
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- Pollen Analysis Suggests Peopling of Siberia and Europe by Modern Humans Occurred During a Major Pleistocene Warming Spell
- Probing the Deep Genetic Structure of Africa
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- New Study Reveals a Long History of Violence in Ancient Hunter-Gatherer Societies
- Ritual Use of Human Remains Dating from the Neolithic
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- Study Examines Centuries of Identity Lost Because of Slavery
- Giant Stone Artefacts Found on Rare Ice Age Site in Kent, UK
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- Ancient Climate Change Solves Mystery of Vanished South African Lakes
- Oldest Architectural Plans Detail Mysterious Desert Mega Structures
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- Tooth Enamel Provides Clues to Hunter-Gatherer Lifestyle of Neanderthals
- Evidence of Ice Age Human Migrations from China to the Americas and Japan
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- Researchers Use 21st Century Methods to Record 2,000 Years of Ancient Graffiti in Egypt
- Ancient DNA Reveals Asian Ancestry Introduced to East Africa in Early Modern Times
- Ancient African Empires' Impact on Migration Revealed by Genetics
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- Cyprus's Copper Deposits Created One of the Most Important Trade Hubs in the Bronze Age
- Indigenous Ashaninka DNA Helps Geneticists Write New Chapters of Pre-Colonial History in South America
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- The World's First Horse Riders
- Archaeological Study of 24 Ancient Mexican Cities Reveals That Collective Forms of Governance, Infrastructural Investments, and Collaboration All Help Societies Last Longer
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- Bronze Age Well Contents Reveal the History of Animal Resources in Mycenae, Greece
- Oldest Human Genome from Southern Spain
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- Steel Was Being Used in Europe 2900 Years Ago
- Mysterious New Behavior Seen in Whales May Be Recorded in Ancient Manuscripts
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- Caribou Have Been Using Same Arctic Calving Grounds for 3,000 Years
- New Research Suggests Drought Accelerated Empire Collapse