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Stone Age Archaeology
A study published in Nature Communications by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the French National Center ...
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Medieval Archaeology
The Gobi Wall is a system of walls and fortifications that stretches over 321 kilometers across the deserts between China and Mongolia, whose origins, function, and historical context had remained ...
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Around 1500 BCE, Europeans strangely abandoned fortified settlements, began building burial mounds, and started eating millet instead of meat
An international team of researchers has investigated the strange, radical transformations that took place in the diet, ...
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Deception Island, the place where you can swim in an active volcano
Between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula lie the icy waters of the Bransfield Strait, and within it a ...
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Some Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered to Have Been Written by the Same Authors of the Bible
An artificial intelligence program was trained to study the writing styles of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran ...
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The Walls of Constantinople, the Best Urban Defensive Complex of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...
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Spectacular 4,000-Square-Meter Roman Villa Discovered in France, One of the Largest in Gaul
About 3 kilometers south of Auxerre, in the French region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, archaeologists have uncovered a vast ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...