A toothy grinned monster was lurking in the basement collection of a museum in Canada: The fossilized jaw of a beast that once roamed the bluffs along the South Saskatchewan River, competing with saber-toothed cats (Smilodon) ...
Rolf Fabricius Warming from the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University in Sweden and founding director of the Society for Combat Archaeology is challenging previous interpretations of ceremonial ...
Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out from the rest. One could easily pass it without realizing its historical ...
Archaeology
Apr 4, 2023
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The knowledge and control of bronze gave some people who lived between 2200 BC and 700 BC enormous wealth and power. Their lives and deeds were immortalized by their burial mounds, known as barrows and cairns, which still ...
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2023
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At an excavation site in northern Mexico, BYU archaeology students and professors recently discovered artifacts that have been buried for 1,000 years, including pottery sherds, hammer stones, maize kernels and—intriguing ...
Archaeology
Mar 8, 2023
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In their search for silver ore, the Romans established two military camps in the Bad Ems area near Koblenz in the 1st century AD. This discovery is the result of research carried out as part of a teaching excavation that ...
Archaeology
Feb 22, 2023
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Anglo-Saxon monasteries were more resilient to Viking attacks than previously thought, archaeologists have concluded.
Archaeology
Jan 30, 2023
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Scientists have discovered the long-buried secret of a 17th-century French aristocrat 400 years after her death: she was using gold wire to keep her teeth from falling out.
Archaeology
Jan 26, 2023
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Deep below the surface in South Dakota, construction crews have been working tirelessly to carve out a network of caverns and tunnels that one day will house a huge neutrino experiment. Their efforts are paying off: With ...
General Physics
Jan 24, 2023
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When Holly Pittman and colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania and University of Pisa returned to Lagash in the fall of 2022 for a fourth season, they knew they'd find more than ceramic fragments and another kiln. ...
Archaeology
Jan 24, 2023
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