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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 ...
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Chinese legal texts have described nasal amputation as a criminal punishment since the Bronze Age. Oracle bone inscri...
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Two tombs, two very different experiences. Walk into one and the space narrows around you, guiding your eyes along a ...
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Galileo Galilei is remembered for pointing a simple two-lens tube at the sky and changing astronomy forever. What he ...
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Three decades have passed since the collection of gold jewelry appeared in the Šarkamen mausoleum, and now this Roman...
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Two of the most prominent belligerents of World War II ended up clashing despite having initially fought on the same ...
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In the 1930s, the German Nazi regime launched an ambitious archaeological research program with a clear goal: to prov...
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The archaeological site of Mellaria, located in the municipality of Fuente Obejuna, in the province of Córdoba, conti...
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The archaeological find could hardly have been more modest: a small ring made of copper alloy, with a few Greek lette...
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As indicated in its statute of autonomy, the flag of Cantabria (in north Spain) is “formed by two horizontal stripes ...
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A team of paleontologists has discovered on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands, the first fossil footp...
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For nearly two centuries, archaeologists excavating Nimrud, one of the capitals of the Assyrian Empire in present-day...
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It is clear that ethnic differences, like religious ones, have been the origin of countless conflicts throughout the ...