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Tomb of an Anglo-Saxon Prince and a Child from the Late 6th Century AD Discovered, Buried with a Horse Sacrificed as a Ritual Offering

The acidic sand of the Suffolk coast has preserved not bones, but shadows; spectral silhouettes that delineate with ...
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Analysis reveals hygienic conditions in Pompeii’s earliest baths: murky, overheated, and contaminated waters

The Vesuvian eruption of 79 CE sealed beneath meters of ash and pumice the most complete snapshot of Roman urban life, ...
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The only absolute king of Sweden was also the last king to die in battle leading his troops

This will be my music from now on.” That is how Charles XII of Sweden referred to the thunder of the cannons he heard during ...
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A Roman general ahead of his time: this was the “military intelligence” of Scipio Africanus in Hispania

A recent academic study, published in the journal Florentia Iliberritana of the University of Granada, sheds new light on one ...
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Two small Mycenaean gold objects from the late Bronze Age found in tombs on a Greek island bear Northern European solar symbols

A detailed study of two Mycenaean gold ornaments, found in tombs on the island of Cephalonia, has revealed that their solar ...
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The enormous centipede that eats bats larger than itself by hanging from cave ceilings

In northern South America and on some Caribbean islands, inhabiting regions of Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Curaçao, Aruba, ...
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One Territory Holds the Keys to Human Symbolism: the Largest and Oldest Open-Air Prehistoric Treasure, Created by Neanderthals and Modern Humans

An extraordinary artistic legacy, painted and engraved on the rocks of southern Iberia over tens of thousands of years, is ...
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A Hermetically Sealed Tomb with a False Door and a Circular Ritual Pit from the First Bronze Age Communities 5,000 Years Ago Discovered in Attica

An emergency intervention on the southern bank of the Rafina stream has yielded a discovery of the first order for ...
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The Oldest Arrow Poison in the World Identified on 60,000-Year-Old Projectiles in South Africa

An international team of researchers has unraveled decisive chemical evidence that redefines the chronology and ...
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A carnyx, the thunderous Celtic war trumpet that terrified the Romans, found complete in Norfolk alongside a boar’s head standard

A team of archaeologists has unearthed in a rural area of Norfolk, just a few miles from Thetford in the United Kingdom, what ...
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An exceptional ceramic stylus from the 5th century BC discovered intact in the ancient Greek city of Gela in Sicily

Preventive archaeology operations linked to the construction of the new Palazzo della Cultura in the Orto Fontanelle district ...
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A Mystical Healing Complex from the Archaic Period Later Transformed into a Roman Necropolis Discovered in Ancient Tenea in Greece

The systematic excavation campaign at the site of ancient Tenea, in the area of Chiliomodi (Corinthia, Greece), concluded in ...