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Searching for hidden medieval stories from the island of the Sagas
Iceland has a long and rich literary tradition. With its 380,000 inhabitants, the country has produced many great writers, and it is said that one in two Icelanders writes books. This literary tradition stretches all the ...
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What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire, and what can we learn from it?
Why empires fall is a question that fascinates many. But in the search for an answer, imagination can run wild. Suggestions have emerged in recent decades that attribute the rise and fall of ancient empires such as the Roman ...
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Geochemical surveys reveal ancient copper industry in King Solomon's mines did not pollute environment
A new study from Tel Aviv University overturns prevailing scientific beliefs that King Solomon's Mines not only harmed the health of workers in the ancient copper industry but also pose risks to the health of modern residents ...
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Dec 23, 2024
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Archaeological study documents rare Christian tattoo in medieval Nubia
Recently, a team of researchers published their study on a medieval Nubian tattoo in Antiquity. The researchers conducted a post-excavation analysis on individuals who had been interred at the Ghazali Monastery Cemetery (Sudan). ...
Water and gruel—not bread: Discovering the diet of early Neolithic farmers in Scandinavia
At a Neolithic settlement on the Danish island Funen dating back 5,500 years, archaeologists have discovered both grinding stones and grains from early cereals. However, new research reveals that the inhabitants did not use ...
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Dec 20, 2024
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More than 1,300 prehistoric burial mounds in western Azerbaijan systematically surveyed for the first time
Spanning more than 1,000 kilometers in length and up to 5,600 meters in height, the mountain ranges of the Caucasus stretch between the Black and Caspian Seas. What appears to be a huge natural barrier was actually an important ...
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Dec 18, 2024
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New computational method uncovers surprising variability in Neolithic building practices
A recent study led by researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University—Hadas Goldgeier, Dr. Antoine Muller, and Prof. Leore Grosman—introduces a new computational method to analyze the architectural ...
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Dec 18, 2024
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Lost score from Scotland revives sound of music and voices from centuries past
A fragment of "lost" music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago.
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Dec 18, 2024
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Syphilis had its roots in the Americas, archaeological bone study suggests
In spring 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an apparently unknown illness—a disease of high mortality that quickly engulfed the whole of Europe and left its survivors ...
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Dec 18, 2024
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Ancient clay remedy may have potential to boost modern gut health
A team of scientists has discovered that an ancient medicinal clay known as Lemnian earth (LE) could inspire new understanding of how to support present-day gut health.
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Dec 18, 2024
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Researchers reveal 8,000 years of Aboriginal history on Yorke Peninsula
New research by Flinders University and University of South Australia, conducted in partnership with Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation and Point Pearce Aboriginal Corporation, has revealed 8,000 years of Aboriginal history ...
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Dec 16, 2024
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Q&A with archaeologist: Are climate-related calamities erasing Illinois' cultural history?
In a new report, scientists with the Illinois State Archaeological Survey describe how increased flooding, erosion and other effects of human-induced climate change are degrading many of the state's cultural sites. ISAS research ...
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Dec 16, 2024
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Butchered bones suggest violent 'othering' of enemies in Bronze Age Britain
Archaeologists have analyzed more than 3,000 human bones and bone fragments from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren, England, concluding that the people were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed ...
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Dec 16, 2024
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Archaeological study uncovers world's oldest evidence of livestock horn manipulation
Archaeologists Dr. Wim van Neer, Dr. Bea De Cupere, and Dr. Renée Friedman have published a study on the earliest evidence of horn modification in livestock in the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Ancient genes pinpoint when humans and Neanderthals mixed and mingled
Neanderthals and humans likely mixed and mingled during a narrow time frame 45,000 years ago, scientists reported Thursday.
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Dec 15, 2024
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Ancient Roman harbor wooden structures analyzed with MRI technology
In a recent study, rare wooden structures from the Roman Empire were investigated in a wide range of ways using NMR methods. These methods, widely known for their use in hospital MRI scans to produce detailed images of the ...
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Dec 13, 2024
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Ancient genomes link early Europeans to Neanderthal ancestry
After modern humans left Africa, they met and interbred with Neanderthals, resulting in around 2–3% Neanderthal DNA that can be found in the genomes of all people outside Africa today. However, little is known about the ...
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Dec 12, 2024
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Neanderthal-human interbreeding lasted 7,000 years, new study reveals
A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, starting about 50,500 years ...
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Dec 12, 2024
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Stone Age insights: Life, death and fire in ancient Ukraine
A research group led by Johannes Müller at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, at Kiel University, Germany, have shed light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine.
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Dec 11, 2024
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Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa, historian finds
While fashion magazines and social media strongly influence how people dress today, there were literally fashion police in most early modern European cities, according to art history scholar Ana Cristina Howie, with local ...
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Dec 10, 2024
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