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Egyptian blue predates the pyramids’ final form. Egyptian artisans were producing it before 3100 BCE, making it, as f...
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On May 29, 1108, an Almoravid army crushed the forces of Alfonso VI of León and Castile outside the town of Uclés. Am...
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On October 9, 2022, two space telescopes, Swift and Fermi, picked up the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded. Res...
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Gravisca sits on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lazio, in what is today the Porto Clementino area near Tarquinia, roughly 7–...
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In 2016, paleontologist David DeMar Jr. was crawling across a rocky outcrop in northeastern Montana, hunting for fish...
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On the slope below the cemetery of Sant’Elpidio a Mare, in Italy’s Le Marche region, recent heavy rains loosened the ...
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In the United States, the phrase Indian Wars conjures a specific set of images: the Battle of Little Bighorn, the mas...
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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...