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Peru's ancient irrigation systems turned deserts into farms because of the culture. Without it, the systems failed
Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world.
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Tutankhamun: Plain-looking mud trays in pharaoh's tomb may have been key part of complex afterlife rituals
More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, new interpretations of the burial are still emerging. A recent article published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology proposes ...
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What Syriac scribes chose to keep: A digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts
A new study uses digital tools to analyze nearly 1,000 Syriac manuscripts from the British Library, focusing on how scribes and editors selected and rearranged parts of texts—a practice known as excerpting. Researcher Noam ...
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Ancient artifacts made of volcanic glass keep turning up in Canada, but how?
Volcanic glass has been discovered at more than 500 archaeological sites in western Canada. Geologically speaking, it shouldn't be there.
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In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to mysterious Maya history
Just steps from the center of Tikal, a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala, a global team of researchers including scholars from Brown University have unearthed a buried altar that could unlock the ...
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Altar found in Guatemalan jungle evidence of mingling of Mayan and Teotihuacan cultures, experts say
An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies, ...
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Revealing the rhythms of ancient Arabia: Music connected cultures in the prehistoric Arabian Gulf
Archaeologists have analyzed a pair of copper cymbals from Bronze Age Oman, suggesting a shared musical tradition connected cultures and helped facilitate trade around the Arabian Gulf.
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Apr 7, 2025
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Prehistoric skis: Melting glaciers reveal clues to climate adaptation in Norway's mountains
Glacial archaeologists have recently discovered the second prehistoric ski of a pair of skis at Digervarden, a mountain in central Norway. Found just five meters from where the first one was uncovered seven years earlier, ...
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Apr 7, 2025
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A large, sustainable and egalitarian community at the height of the Copper Age
The Chalcolithic site of Valencina de la Concepción in Seville was permanently occupied for a thousand years, between 3300 and 2150 BCE, by a community of several thousand inhabitants who organized themselves in an egalitarian ...
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Apr 7, 2025
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Life-size sculptures uncovered in Pompeii show that ancient women didn't just have to be wives to make a difference
Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, don't often think to look beyond the city walls. And it's easy to understand ...
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Apr 7, 2025
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Ireland's neolithic passage tombs were not just the burial place of the elite
In County Meath in eastern Ireland sits the world heritage site of Brú na Bóinne. The late 4th millennium BC megalithic tombs have been labeled "passage tombs" by archaeologists because they typically feature a narrow passage ...
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Apr 7, 2025
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Codex of Türi: Study traces origins of Estonia's oldest dated manuscript covers
A recent study by Dr. Alar Läänelaid and his colleagues has provided new insights into the creation of the oldest dated manuscript in Estonia. The study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage set out to determine ...
Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Study finds eastward shift of settlement areas at end of last Ice Age
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 prehistoric archaeologists ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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A mass grave for fighters in a Roman Empire-era battle is revealed in Vienna
As construction crews churned up dirt to renovate a Vienna soccer field last October, they happened upon an unprecedented find: A heap of intertwined skeletal remains in a mass grave dating to the 1st-century Roman Empire, ...
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Apr 3, 2025
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New computer model reveals how Bronze Age Scandinavians could have crossed the sea
People living in Bronze Age-era Denmark may have been able to travel to Norway directly over the open sea, according to a study published in PLOS One by Boel Bengtsson from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and colleagues. ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest ...
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Apr 2, 2025
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Study uncovers mercury treatment in 19th-century French child suffering from rickets and scurvy
A recent study, published in the International Journal of Paleopathology, examined the skeletal remains of a child who lived in mid-19th-century France. The study revealed that the child had suffered from rickets and scurvy ...
Stone tool discovery shows people in East Asia were innovating during the Middle Paleolithic
New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant something quite different: ...
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Apr 1, 2025
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Ancient tombs in Anatolia suggest reverence for youth preceded elite burials
University College London, the University of Central Lancashire, Ege University, and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, predating ...
Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
While the Middle Paleolithic period is viewed as a dynamic time in European and African history, it is commonly considered a static period in East Asia. New research from the University of Washington challenges that perception.
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Mar 31, 2025
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