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Man notices ancient human jawbone embedded in parents' tile floor
A Reddit user got the surprise of a lifetime when they noticed a human-like jawbone embedded in the new travertine flooring at their parents' house.
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My Search for the Origins of Clothing
An archaeologist uses climate data and tailoring tools to trace the origins and evolution of Paleolithic clothing in colder climates.
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage
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How technology helped archaeologists dig deeper
Digital tools can help us understand ancient cities and the people who lived in them.
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The Oldest Known Burial Site in The World Wasn't Made by Our Species
Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behavior.
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One of The Biggest Hunter-Gatherers Myths Is Finally Getting Debunked
The enduring idea that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is a relatively baseless assumption that is facing greater academic resistance than ever before.
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Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple
For a decade, debate has raged over Dark Emu’s account of Aboriginal agriculture. But ancient food production in Australia is more complex than labels like farming or hunter-gathering suggest.
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Giant Pyramid Buried in Indonesia Could Be The Oldest in The World
A giant underground pyramid hidden beneath a hillside in Indonesia far outdates Stonehenge or the Giza Pyramids and may come to rival the oldest megalithic structures ever built by human hands.
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Did Australia's First Peoples domesticate dingoes? They certainly buried them with great care
There’s been a long-standing debate over whether dingoes started out wild or domesticated. One thing is clear – they had a close relationship with First Peoples.
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Scrolls were illegible for 2,000 years. A college student read one with AI.
Nebraska college student Luke Farritor used artificial intelligence to find the ancient Greek word for “purple” in the Herculaneum scrolls.
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The burials that could challenge historians' ideas about Anglo-Saxon gender
Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
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We May Have Been Completely Wrong About The Origins of Syphilis in Europe
When Italian explorer Christopher Columbus and his Spanish troops returned to Europe from the Americas in the late 15th century, they notoriously brought back the deadly pathogen responsible for syphilis.
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Scientists Discover Giant Sinkhole in China With Primeval ‘Lost World’ Inside
At 630 feet deep, the sinkhole would hide the Washington Monument and then some. The bottom of the pit holds an ancient forest spanning nearly three football fields in length, with trees towering over 100 feet high. And according to the Chinese government, it is one of 30 enormous sinkholes in the county.
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Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
Archaeologist Ivan Šprajc has spent nearly 30 years uncovering long-lost cities buried deep in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. His latest discovery is capturing the world's attention.
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Did the Romans hunt WHALES?
Ancient bones at a fish processing factory reveal the civilisation may have caused the beasts to go extinct in the Mediterranean 2,000 years ago
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Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting
Experts say the flatbread depicted in the 2,000 year-old fresco may be a precursor to the Italian dish.
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NSFW Ancient Egyptians were so into oral sex, they put it in their religion — and religious art
Artifacts from ancient Egyptian culture reveal a culture that was far less puritanical about oral sex than we are
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2,000 years before 'manscaping' and smooth armpits, the Romans were seriously into hair removal, archaeological findings show
An English Heritage site found over 50 tweezers during a dig in Wroxeter, England, highlighting the Romans' obsession with "manscaping."
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These bracelets survived tomb robbers and time — now they're helping us understand the 'beginnings of the globalised world'
An analysis of bracelets owned by ancient Egyptian royalty more than 4,500 years ago has found Egypt and Greece were involved in long-distance trade much earlier than realised.
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Scientists Think They've Finally Figured Out How a Maya Calendar Works
A cycle featured in Maya calendars has been a mystery pretty much since it was rediscovered and its deciphering began in the 1940s.
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