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A metal detector has pulled a small lead statuette of Venus Pudica out of a forest in the Buda Hills, northwest of Bu...
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Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog t...
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Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists broug...
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In southwestern Germany, an open-air museum and a website present the Heuneburg as the “Celtic city of Pyrene”, a set...
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Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida pr...
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Most of the Persian kings whose names we know are Cyrus, Darius, Cambyses, Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Khosrow. Each has a nu...
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On 28 September 2026, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced on X the recovery of 2,1...
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Cyrene was one of the wealthiest Greek cities in the ancient Mediterranean, built on a plateau some 9 km (about 6 mil...
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Inside a Roman legionary fortress, almost nobody had a private bathroom. Soldiers washed in communal baths built for ...
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Picture ancient Egypt’s funerary cult and the mind jumps to the dead themselves: the offerings, the gods, the pageant...
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Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the...
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In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania‘s Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has jus...
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The archaeologists were not looking for a Sarmatian. When they opened the burial mound near the Sea of Azov, they exp...
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In April 2009, newspapers around the world ran a headline that read like a cocktail menu: the center of the galaxy ta...
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For decades, one question has nagged at specialists in ancient Mexico: did Teotihuacan — the city that dominated cent...
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India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalr...
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A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey’s southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Construc...
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Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a Roman-period tomb whose architecture, ac...
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In the 1970s, the small settlement of Stein, in Lower Austria, came close to becoming the site of the country’s secon...
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Roughly 315,000 years ago, a group of early humans lived in what is now Morocco. Their remains, unearthed at a site c...