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In a quiet corner of Hadrian’s Villa, wedged between the so-called Amphitheater and a low bench of volcanic tufa rock...
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In 2022, medical CT scanners let Egyptologists peer inside sealed sarcophagi without ever lifting a lid. In 2026, the...
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Around 1590 BCE — more than 800 years before Rome was founded, and before Tutankhamun was even born — a small number ...
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Two skeletons from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had something strange going on in their mouths. Not cavities. No...
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In 2019, workers doing routine ecological restoration at a quarry in China’s Yunnan province hit something under the ...
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Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosauru...
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For the first time, astronomers have pointed NASA’s two flagship space telescopes at the same patch of sky beyond Nep...
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A team from the University of York and Curtin University, in Australia, has settled one of the most persistent puzzle...
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Long before anyone built a kiln on purpose, the ground itself may have shown people how. A new study argues that a wa...
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Picture a moonless night, far from any city. Look straight at the point in the sky opposite the Sun — the antisolar p...
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At the foot of Mount Aragatsotn, in the Armenian highlands, sits the site of Aruch — a castle that was never just a c...
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Deep inside Ojo Guareña, one of the largest cave systems in Europe, in the northern Spanish province of Burgos, archa...
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For years, a small fragment of papyrus lay unnoticed in the collections of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeolo...
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When the French Egyptologist Auguste Mariette surveyed the necropolis at Saqqara in the mid-19th century, he catalogu...
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On the Turkish coast of the Black Sea, there is a Roman city called Pompeiopolis. Despite the name, it has nothing to...
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An international team has re-examined close to a thousand human bones from the caves of Malalmuerzo, Carigüela, and M...
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Picture the Colosseum, and the image that comes to mind is almost always the same: a lion bursting into the arena, th...
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In the first quarter of the 11th century, a force of Kievan Rus’ warriors sailed for Constantinople hoping to join th...
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Underwater archaeology is experiencing a silent revolution. For decades, researchers have measured the importance of ...
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The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — possibly on purpose — until nothing remained of the ...