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In ancient Mesopotamia, cuneiform writing was the domain of a small elite. Scribes, trained for years, mastered a com...
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The Euclid space observatory, launched into orbit by the European Space Agency in 2023, has achieved a discovery that...
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Archaeological discoveries are often measured by their scientific importance, but there are also finds that remain in...
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The Dutch archaeological mission working in the Theban necropolis, led by Dr. Carina van den Hoven of Leiden Universi...
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Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Florida State University, Harvard University, and the Univers...
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In the year 416, Emperors Honorius and Theodosius II enacted a law that prohibited wearing long hair in the city of R...
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For five years, a French-Greek team visited nineteen museums and thirty-three archaeological sites to solve a riddle ...
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The image of a stable Assyrian kingdom, with an orderly dynastic line and mostly peaceful father-to-son successions, ...
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A team from the University of Granada has examined a set of eight sandal soles made with esparto, recovered in the Nu...
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A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw has unearthed at the site of Metsamor, in present-day Armenia,...
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A team of researchers from the University of Córdoba, the CSIC, and other institutions has documented at the Castillo...
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The Qafzeh cave, in present-day Israel, has brought to light one of the most significant fossil assemblages for traci...
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A Czech-Uzbek archaeological team has managed to unravel the true nature of a Hellenistic-era site in southern Uzbeki...
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Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority found a limestone seal with a worship scene engraved on its base...
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The health of northern hemisphere forests largely depends on an age-old alliance hidden beneath the soil surface. Thi...
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The image of Sparta that has come down to us is that of a closed, militarized, and extremely rigid society, where onl...
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Long before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth, and even before animals or plants colonized the land surface, dista...
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The crossing of the Alps undertaken by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca in 218 B.C. with a force of 40,000 sol...
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Ardèche is a French department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that encompasses Vivarais and parts of Languedoc. O...
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The fate of emperors in antiquity was far from similar. While ruling in Rome often meant a premature and violent deat...