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The Mystery Deepens Over Why The Lost City of Cahokia Was Abandoned
For a couple of hundred years, Cahokia was the place to be in what is now the US state of Illinois. The bustling, vibrant city was at one time home to some 15,000 people, but by the end of the 14th century it was deserted
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Neanderthal DNA extracted from cave dirt shows population movements 100,000 years ago
Where ancient humans lived — and when — can be unveiled using DNA extracted from sediment layers dug from cave floors.
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Someone in The Kalahari Collected Crystals a Whopping 105,000 Years Ago
A rockshelter in South Africa's Kalahari documents the innovative behaviors of early humans who lived there 105,000 years ago. We report the new evidence today in Nature.
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Archaeologists Uncover a 1,300-Year-Old Skeleton of a Maya Diplomat
The remains revealed that the government official was wealthy as an adult, but he had a difficult childhood
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A Maya ambassador’s grave reveals his surprisingly difficult life
The grave offers a rare glimpse at the lives of high-ranking Mayan officials.
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Neanderthals helped create early human art, researcher says
Archaeologist says ability to think and create objects may not have been restricted to homo sapiens
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Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient 'Antikythera Mechanism'
A digital model has revealed a complex planetarium on the ancient device's face. “Unless it's from outer space, we have to find a way in which the Greeks could have made it,” researchers say.
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Women were successful big-game hunters, challenging beliefs about ancient gender roles
Anthropologists believed that before the implementation of agriculture, men hunted and women gathered, but new evidence suggests that this might not have been the case.
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Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
A team of electrical technicians made the discovery while moving an electrical pole in Monmouthshire.
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Archaeologists find unique ceremonial vehicle near Pompeii
Archaeologists have unearthed a unique Roman ceremonial carriage from a villa just outside Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD. The almost perfectly preserved four-wheeled carriage, made of iron, bronze and tin, was found near the stables of an ancient villa at Civita Giuliana, about 700 metres north of the walls of ancient Pompeii and close to where the remains of three horses were unearthed in 2018, including one still in its harness.
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A 'Lamborghini' Of Chariots Is Discovered At Pompeii. Archaeologists Are Wowed
The well-preserved chariot, complete with decorative medallions depicting erotic scenes, is an "extraordinary discovery" that may have been used in wedding ceremonies.
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World's oldest DNA sequenced from a mammoth that lived more than 1 million years ago
A tooth from a mammoth that roamed the Siberian steppe more than a million years ago has yielded the world's oldest DNA sequence. It's the first time that DNA has been recovered from animal remains more than a million years old. Previously, the most ancient DNA sample was from a horse that lived between 560,000 and 780,000 years ago
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Ancient Egyptian brewery is the oldest ever found
A newly discovered brewery from 3000 BCE—the world's oldest known facility of its kind—could produce enough beer to serve an entire modern-day stadium.
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Dramatic discovery links Stonehenge to its original site – in Wales
Find backs theory that bluestones first stood at Waun Mawn before being dragged 140 miles to Wiltshire
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Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii
Eat like a first-century Roman, using recent archaeological discoveries as your guide.
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Medieval Cambridge skeletons reveal injuries to manual labourers
X-rays of 300 skeletons from a city's graveyards show the "bone-crushing" work of labourers.
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Archaeologist argues the Chumash Indians were using highly worked shell beads as currency 2,000 years ago
As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California's Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.
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A vanished empire: Major new discovery exposes long-lost medieval kingdom
David Keys tells the story of how archaeologists are uncovering the remains of the Medieval Chinese Nanzhao Empire and the grave of its ruler
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Archaeologists in Turkey Have Discovered a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History
It was said that all he touched turned to gold. But destiny eventually caught up with the legendary King Midas, and a long-lost chronicle of his ancient downfall appears to have literally surfaced in Turkey.
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From mummies to mosques—new Google Arts & Culture initiative brings Egypt’s archaeological treasures to the masses
New online platform aims to turn traditionally scholarly subject into something "easily digestible and fun to explore"
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