A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, which challenge long-standing views on the impact of the Black Death and how the population of Nottingham ...
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Bone tools have been created by hominins for millions of years, with the earliest evidence for the manufacture of deliberately shaped bone tools dating to approximately 1.4 to 0.7 million years ago in Ethiopia. In Europe, ...
An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books were bound using seal skin. In their paper published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the ...
In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details in the chipped edges ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, in the U.S., has found that there was more economic inequality under the Han Dynasty than during ...
Seafaring hunter-gatherers were accessing remote, small islands such as Malta thousands of years before the arrival of the first farmers, a new international study has found.
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A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist attractions.
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Apr 9, 2025
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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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Apr 8, 2025
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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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Apr 8, 2025
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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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