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4,000-year-old tablets found in Turkey include women’s rights
The Kültepe-Kaniş-Karum trade colony in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri continues to amaze archeologists, with an expert at the dig revealing that tablets citing women’s rights were discovered at the Bronze Age settlement.
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Red All Over: How a Tiny Bug Changed the Way We See the World
One hundred seventy thousand years ago, our cave-dwelling ancestors ground up clay laced with iron oxide and covered their bodies, painted their walls, and encased their dead with the rich red of ochre. And over the thousands of years that followed...
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Roman Builders May Have Copied Volcanic
The rock of the Campi Flegrei Caldera, west of Naples, Italy, has an intricate network of mineral fibers—just like the famed Roman concrete. Christopher Intagliata reports.
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Classic ancient Maya “collapse” not caused by overpopulation and deforestation, say researchers
The Maya practiced sustainable agriculture that supported dense populations well beyond the Classic period.
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Ancient Aliens Debunked [2012]
Ancient Aliens Debunked is a 3 hour refutation of the theories proposed on the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. It is essentially a point by point critique of the "ancient astronaut theory" which has been proposed by people like Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin as well as many others.
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Bronze Age trackway unearthed on Cleethorpes beach - BBC News
A prehistoric trackway is unearthed on a beach in Cleethorpes during a coastal archaeology project.
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Oracle bones and unseen beauty: wonders of priceless Chinese collection now online
A banknote from 1380 that threatens decapitation, a set of 17th-century prints so delicate they had never been opened, and 3000-year-old ‘oracle bones’ are now freely available for the world to view on the Cambridge Digital Library.
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The Real Housewives of Ancient Egypt Had 8-Foot-Long Prenups
Eight feet long from edge to edge and brushed with beautiful calligraphy, the stretched-out scroll hanging on the walls of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago could easily be mistaken for a poem, or an ornate royal decree. It's neither. It's a prenup... By Cara Giaimo.
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What explains the glory that was Greece? Actually, sound economic policy
Where and how did the ancient Greeks gain the wealth with which to build a culture that became central to the modern world? By Josiah Ober.
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Paleo People Were Making Flour 32,000 Years Ago
Oatmeal is generally considered a no-no on the modern paleo diet, but the original paleo eaters were definitely grinding oats and other grains for dinner, according to new research.
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Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script
Andrew Robinson reflects on the most tantalizing of all the undeciphered scripts — that used in the civilization of the Indus valley in the third millennium BC.
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Grave of ‘Griffin Warrior’ at Pylos Could Be a Gateway to Civilizations
A warrior’s tomb full of precious metals and jewels is expected to give insight into the rise of the Mycenaeans, from whom Greek culture developed. By Nicholas Wade.
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The Road to Machu Picchu
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Naturalistic Traditions: Were the ancient Skeptics naturalistic?
If ancient Skepticism was so influential in the development of modern science, it stands to reason that it might be a good place to look for the philosophy that underpins it: naturalism. By B.T. Newberg.
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2,000-year-old Maccabean-era fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search
In what archaeologists are describing as “a solution to one of the great archaeological riddles in the history of Jerusalem,” researchers with the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Tuesday that they have found the remnants of a fortress used by the Seleucid Greek king Antiochus Epiphanes in his siege of Jerusalem in 168 BCE.
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Kilroy Is Still Here
In wartime, the walls of the latrine provide a rare opportunity for self-expression. By Scott Beauchamp.
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1,700-Year-Old Ring Depicts Nude Cupid, the Homewrecking God
An intricately carved gold ring containing a stone engraved with an image of a teenage Cupid, shown completely nude while holding a torch, was discovered near a village in the U.K. Spiral designs and bead-shaped spheres decorate the ring.
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The Future Of Archaeology Is Not Digging Anything Up
The 2016 TED Prize winner is reinventing how we discover and preserve the past. By Jessica Leber.
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‘Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World,’ by Tim Whitmarsh
Whitmarsh argues that atheism isn’t a product of the modern age but reaches back to early Western intellectual tradition in the ancient Greek world.
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The Secret of Rome’s Success
Mary Beard’s sweeping history is a new read of citizenship in the ancient city. By Emily Wilson.
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