Warriors' down bedding could ease journey to realm of the dead
The burial field in Valsgärde outside Uppsala in central Sweden contains more than 90 graves from the Iron Age.
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Israeli experts announce discovery of more Dead Sea scrolls
Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday announced the discovery of dozens of Dead Sea Scroll fragments bearing a biblical text found in a desert cave and believed hidden during a Jewish revolt against Rome nearly 1,900 years ago.
Archaeology
Mar 16, 2021
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18,000-year-old seashell is the oldest manmade wind instrument of its type
Almost 80 years after its discovery, a large shell from the ornate Marsoulas Cave in the Pyrenees has been studied by a multidisciplinary team from the CNRS, the Muséum de Toulouse, the Université Toulouse—Jean Jaurès ...
Archaeology
Feb 10, 2021
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New data on the Quaternary ecosystems in the central Iberian Peninsula
Adrián Pablos and Nohemi Sala, researchers at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), lead the team that has recently published two papers in the journals Quaternary Science Reviews and ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 15, 2021
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Iron Age man with the first known case of TB in Britain was a migrant from continental Europe
A new study of the skeleton of an Iron Age man with the first known case of tuberculosis in Britain has shed new light on his origins.
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Nov 9, 2020
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Neolithic construction boom led to large-scale mega henges being built across southern Britain, research suggests
Frantic building activity around 2500 BC resulted in massive ceremonial structures appearing in southern Britain, a study from Cardiff University says.
Archaeology
Nov 5, 2020
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Remains dug from Japan mass grave suggest epidemic in 1800s
Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, who were buried in a 19th century mass grave that is being excavated for a city development project in Osaka ...
Archaeology
Aug 26, 2020
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Accelerated bone deterioration in last 70 years at famous Mesolithic peat bog in peril
Alarming results from a 2019 survey of well-known archaeological site Ageröd reveal drastic bone and organic matter deterioration since the site's initial excavations in the 1940s, suggesting action is needed to preserve ...
Archaeology
Jul 29, 2020
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The millenial pre-colonial cultural inluence is evident in the Amazon forest
More than ten years ago, large geometric earthworks found in the southwestern parts of the Amazon, called geoglyphs, were reported in the global scientific news. A pre-colonial civilization unknown to scholars that built ...
Archaeology
Jun 26, 2020
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Crews create a blast to take the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment to the next stage
It started with a blast.
General Physics
Jun 25, 2020
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