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Of all the fossils that have been piled into the species Australopithecus africanus over the decades, only one can be...
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When archaeologists working on the route of the A14 highway between Cambridge and Huntingdon emptied a shallow ditch ...
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A carved step from Ocomtún has yielded a probable original name for a newly found Maya settlement in Campeche—and a r...
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In an earlier article we looked at the German invasion of the Channel Islands, the only British territory occupied by...
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About 7,300 years ago, roughly 30 km (19 miles) south of Japan’s Kyushu island, a submarine volcano erupted with a fo...
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In April 2008, a genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics fundamentally changed how we tell ...
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Imagine a coastal desert where rain can go years without falling. Offshore, the sea is one of the richest fisheries o...
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In 2011, an amateur astronomer near Toronto, Adam Szewczyk, was going through star brightness charts at home when one...
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Archaeologists digging at Riparo Mochi knew exactly what they needed when they uncovered a prehistoric hearth wedged ...
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Alfonso María de Borbón y Borbón was a great-great-grandson of Carlos III, the son of a princely Carlist marriage and...
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Visitors looking for the Roman port of Lecce, in the heel of Italy’s boot, usually end up at San Cataldo, a small sea...
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When Brazilian paleontologists described a small meat-eating dinosaur in 2020, they took its name from Tupi, an Indig...
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Three kilometres (about two miles) north of the town of Juigalpa, in the Chontales department of central Nicaragua, t...
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The only ancient historian who explains why Rome invaded Britain points to a single exiled ruler. He gives the ruler’...
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For nearly a century, the Roman villa at Realmonte, on the southern coast of Sicily, was read as what it seemed to be...
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For more than six decades, visitors to the Cova de la Font Major in L’Espluga de Francolí, in Catalonia, northeastern...
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In the Grand Canyon, rock layers stack up like pages in a book, with the oldest at the bottom and the youngest on top...
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Around 440–430 BC, the Greek settlers of Akragas, a colony on the south coast of Sicily, built a temple on a hill. It...
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Several tombs in the Monte Abatone necropolis, a burial ground next to Cerveteri and about 25 miles (40 km) northwest...
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Every summer, small groups of visitors climb into an open metal cage hanging from a crane above a hole barely four me...