Prehistoric Hearths Reveal Ice Age Hunter-Gatherers Were Masters of the Flame
Scholars generally agree that fire was crucial to human survival during the most recent Ice Age—yet in Europe, there is…
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Tag: Archaeology
Mass Grave of 150 Roman Soldiers Found Under Vienna Sports Field
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the Danube River…
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Archaeologists Find Creepy 2,400-Year-Old Puppets Atop El Salvador Pyramid
A recent discovery at the top of a pyramid in El Salvador challenges the notion that pre-Columbian Salvadorans were isolated…
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Severed Heads in Iron Age Iberia Weren’t Just War Trophies, New Research Suggests
Iron Age people living on the Iberian Peninsula in the last millennium BCE had a striking funerary tradition: chopping off…
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Archaeologist Who Uncovered Pharaoh’s Tomb May Have Just Made an Even Bigger Find
The stunning discovery of a pharaoh’s burial spot last week was a bombshell in the archaeology world. Not since Howard…
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The River Thames Has Been a Dumping Ground for Bodies for at Least 6,000 Years, Study Reveals
The average Londoner might be shocked to hear that, over the past two hundred years, hundreds of human bones have…
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AI Unlocks 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scroll Carbonized by Vesuvius
Researchers at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the Vesuvius Challenge have deciphered yet another scroll carbonized by the…
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