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Archaeologists discover ancient irrigation network in Mesopotamia
Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices.
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Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city
The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast of Türkiye, directly across the Aegean Sea from Athens. Today, it is rubble and ruins, but 2,000 years ago, it was a thriving center of Hellenistic and Roman art, culture, ...
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Human ancestors making 'bone tech' 1.5 million years ago, say scientists
Our ancestors were making tools out of bones 1.5 million years ago, winding back the clock for this important moment in human evolution by more than a million years, a study said Wednesday.
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Mar 5, 2025
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Standardized production of bone tools by our ancestors pushed back 1 million years
Twenty-seven standardized bone tools dating back more than 1.5 million years were recently discovered in the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania by a team of scientists from the CNRS and l'Université de Bordeaux, in collaboration ...
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Mar 5, 2025
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Pre-Columbian 'puppets' indicate ritual connections across Central America
Archaeologists have discovered five ceramic figurines atop the largest pyramidal structure at San Isidro, El Salvador. The style of the figurines suggests that ritual puppetry may have connected Central American societies ...
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Mar 5, 2025
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Urban inequality scaling throughout the ages: Ancient and modern cities show predictable elite wealth patterns
For as long as people have built cities, they have been centers of both opportunity and inequality. In ancient times, this was evident in the size of houses, the grandeur of monuments, and the inscriptions celebrating rulers ...
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Mar 4, 2025
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AI models make precise copies of cuneiform characters
Deciphering some people's writing can be a major challenge—especially when that writing is cuneiform characters imprinted onto 3,000-year-old tablets.
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Mar 4, 2025
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Discovery of first Bronze Age settlement in the Maghreb
Most Bronze Age settlements have been documented in European territory. Despite its geographical proximity, the Maghreb has always been absent from these historical narratives, erroneously characterized as an "empty land" ...
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Mar 4, 2025
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Researcher uncovers hidden copy of Shakespeare sonnet
Dr. Leah Veronese from Oxford University's English Faculty has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This treasure was found among the papers ...
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Mar 3, 2025
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What are the origins of the Asante's famous kente cloth? I traced its history to find out
Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana's Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there's a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase community in the Ashanti ...
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Mar 3, 2025
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Vesuvian ash cloud suspected of turning brain to glass
A unique dark-colored organic glass, found inside the skull of an individual who died in Herculaneum during the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when they were killed by a very hot but short-lived ash cloud. The ...
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Mar 2, 2025
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New study reveals harsh realities of childhood in the pre-Columbian Andes
Dr. Luiz Pezo-Lanfranco and his colleagues have published a study on child mortality at the Quebrada Chupacigarro Cemetery (QCC) in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
How did this man's brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory
A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago.
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Feb 27, 2025
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Time and life cycles reflected in the grinding stones of Europe's earliest Neolithic communities
The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the cycles of human life, nature ...
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Feb 27, 2025
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Butchers, bakers, candlestick-makers, and prostitutes: The women working behind the scenes in papal Avignon
In the medieval church, women's roles were limited—usually some form of enclosure and celibacy, such as becoming an anchoress walled up alone for life, or a nun in a classic convent. On the other extreme were a few dramatic ...
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Feb 25, 2025
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Starfish sites: The secret war effort of British aerial bombing decoys
Keele University researchers have investigated three World War II Allied aerial bombing decoy sites in North Staffordshire, UK, uncovering significant variation in preservation and construction.
Archaeologists reveal the enigmatic burial practices of the Southern Jê
A new study published by archaeologists in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology set out to answer questions about the spatiality, chronology, and symbolic aspects of Southern Jê burial caves (SJBCs) and their relation ...
Origin and diversity of Hun empire populations: Research finds far-reaching genetic ties
The Huns suddenly appeared in Europe in the 370s, establishing one of the most influential although short-lived empires in Europe. Scholars have long debated whether the Huns were descended from the Xiongnu.
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Feb 24, 2025
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Fossil footprints reveal what may be the oldest known handcarts
If you're a parent, you've probably tried, at some point, to navigate the supermarket with a trolley, and at least one child in tow. But our new study suggests there was an ancient equivalent, dating to 22,000 years ago. ...
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Feb 24, 2025
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How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms
A few weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders restricting the rights of trans workers in the federal government. The first was a renewal of the ban on transgender people joining the ...
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Feb 24, 2025
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