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In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where ...
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Archaeologists have spent thirty years puzzling over an unusually grim detail at Göbekli Tepe, the roughly 11,600-yea...
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Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmos...
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In the early 1980s, an American-Yugoslav team dug a trench roughly the size of a tennis court — 16 by 20 meters (52 b...
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Quarks, the smallest known building blocks of matter, are never seen alone. They are roughly a billion times smaller ...
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The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the Uni...
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Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is wha...
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In late 2025, conservators from Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum brought an unassuming object to the Diamond Light Source sy...
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In 1889, a team from the École française de Rome reached a circular earthen mound roughly 30 meters (about 98 feet) a...
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In the mountainous interior of Sardinia, where the Gennargentu massif gives way to the valleys of the Flumendosa rive...
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In the spring of 2019, workers dredging gravel at Deinham, a site on the Danube in Upper Austria, kept snagging stran...
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A small piece of clay, not much bigger than a matchbox, took nearly a year for archaeologists to identify. When they ...
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Ten years of digging in the same corner of northern Spain tends to turn up plenty. Temples, walls, coins, the occasio...
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About 56 miles (90 km) from Brescia and 75 miles (120 km) from Milan, in the Lombard Alps, the forest of Naquane is s...
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Some discoveries impress because of their size or value, while others do so because of the exact place where they app...
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An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in th...
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all o...
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A copper ingot cast somewhere in inland Sardinia during the Bronze Age might, centuries later, turn up in a Scottish ...
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Somewhere between an electron and a human being, the rules of physics change. Quantum mechanics allows an atom to exi...
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Earth has never been a perfect sphere. It bulges slightly at the equator and flattens slightly at the poles, a shape ...