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Evidence from 400,000 years ago points to Neanderthals as the first makers of controlled fire

An international research team led by the British Museum has unearthed in a field in Suffolk the oldest known material ...
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Oldest Mortar Manufactured and Used by Hunter-Gatherers in Europe, Dating to the Pleistocene 14,000 Years Ago, Discovered in Northern Spain

A scientific team that includes research staff from the University of the Basque Country (EHU) has succeeded in ...
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Fingerprint of a Crew Member Found and the Hjortspring Boat’s Origin Identified: The Vessel That Attacked a Danish Island in 350 B.C. and Became a Votive Offering

A pioneering analysis of the Hjortspring boat, the oldest known planked vessel in Scandinavia, has provided the first solid material clues about the origin of the warriors who crewed it during a ...
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Monumental Section of 2nd-Century BCE Hasmonean Wall that Was Deliberately Demolished Discovered in Jerusalem

Archaeological work carried out in preparation for the new wing of the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem has concluded with a major discovery: the full excavation of an impressive section of the city ...
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An architectural complex next to a Sasanian fortification confirms the peaceful coexistence of Christians and Zoroastrians in the 5th century AD

The Gird-î Kazhaw site at sunset, with the uncovered structures. Credit: Dirk Wicke However, the spatial and temporal relationship with an adjacent settlement tell, which houses a small Sasanian ...
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Scientists Discover That the Iberian Peninsula Is Slowly Rotating Clockwise

The Iberian Peninsula, an apparently static block anchored to the southwest of Europe, is undergoing a constant and extremely slow rotational movement, a clockwise turn that has now been confirmed and ...
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Oldest Iron Weapons in Denmark Discovered, Offered with Gold in a Sacred Bronze Age Spring

Archaeologists from the Vestsjælland Museum have made an exceptional discovery that places the use of iron in Denmark nearly 300 years earlier than previously documented. During an excavation carried ...
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The Roman Expansion Felled Forests So Remote, Inaccessible, and Ancient North of the Alps That They Had Never Been Exploited Before

An international investigation led by the University of Freiburg, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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New findings in Pompeii reveal that slaves were fed beans and fruit to maintain their health and productivity

Ongoing excavations in the suburban villa of Civita Giuliana, on the outskirts of Pompeii, are uncovering a complex economic ...
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The Head of a Kore from Athens Found in the Ancient Etruscan City of Vulci, One of the Few Archaic Sculptures Discovered Outside Greece

The presentation in the Italian capital last Friday, in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, of a marble head more than twenty-five hundred years old, has revealed an unexpected ...
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A 2,300-Year-Old Sarmatian Ritual Deposit Discovered in the Russian Steppe, the Largest Known to Date

The vast and windy landscapes of the Orenburg steppe, along the southern edge of the Russian Urals, have preserved for ...
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A young man from the Copper Age was bitten by a lion in Bulgaria 5000 years ago, but survived

A team of Bulgarian researchers has made an exceptional discovery in a Copper Age necropolis: the remains of a young man who ...