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A Mysterious Carpetani Relief Rewrites the History of the Iberian Peninsula in the Iron Age
A team of archaeologists reexamined the findings from the El Cerrón site in Illescas (Toledo, Spain) and found that the local ...
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The Earliest Use of Fire by Humans Was Not for Cooking but for Preserving Meat
A study from Tel Aviv University proposes the hypothesis that prehistoric humans’ control of fire was not initially intended ...
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Babies from Two Million Years Ago Reveal a Common Ancestor to All Human Species Prior to the Quaternary Period
Thanks to a study that analyzed fossilized fragments of baby jaws dating back two million years, scientists are rewriting the ...
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Monumental Roman Building Discovered in Nijmegen, the Ancient Ulpia Noviomagus founded around the camp of Legio X Gemina in the Netherlands
During excavations prior to the construction of a residential tower in the Waalfront district of the Dutch city of Nijmegen, ...
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Thrushes Were the “Fast Food” of Romans in Imperial Cities, Not an Exclusive Delicacy for Banquets
A study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology analyzed thrush remains found in a latrine of a fast-food ...
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A Major Medieval Irrigation Structure in Mesopotamia Was Found to Have Been Built by Black Slaves During the Islamic Period
An international team of archaeologists has, for the first time, accurately dated an extensive farming system in southern ...
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Three Exceptional Roman Mosaics Discovered Near the Ancient Ovilava in Austria
A team of archaeologists from OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH and the University of Salzburg discovered three exceptionally ...
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Over One Hundred Prehistoric Structures and Modifications Discovered Inside Cova Dones in Valencia, Spain
An interdisciplinary team composed of researchers from the University of Alicante (UA) and the University of Zaragoza (Unizar ...
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The chances of a collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way within 5 billion years have dropped to 2%, but we won’t be around to see it
As early as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy, then considered just a nebula, was heading toward us—toward the Milky Way. A century later, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Tele ...
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Two Seal Impressions Discovered on a Greek Island Change Everything We Know About the Origins of Script in the Aegean
On the small island of Therasia, one of the volcanic islands of the Santorini group in the Greek Cyclades archipelago, a ...
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Roman Camp from the 2nd Century AD Found Beyond the Empire’s Northern Border on the Rhine
Students from the Constructing the Limes project, together with archaeologists from Saxion University, discovered a Roman ...
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Chicomóztoc, the mythical place of origin of the Nahua peoples of central Mexico
There is one thing that Postclassic period peoples of central Mesoamerica had in common, such as the Mexicas, Tlaxcaltecs, ...