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Five ways science conquered our beliefs about the Roman Empire in the year MMXXIII 0 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 18 1553
Scientists May Have Found an Ancient Path Into America 24,000 Years Ago 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1272
No signs of tooth decay in half of Swedish Viking population (corrected) 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1400
Israel destroyed more than 200 of 325 archaeological sites in Gaza 8 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1075
Lying down and vomiting between courses: This is how Ancient Romans would feast 7 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1665
Archaeologists have made a shocking discovery after a re-examination of a mummified teen mom who died in childbirth 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 40 3002
Secret underground passageways discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old city in China 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 921
Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Palace in Ancient Chinese Walled City 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 811
Europe's Prehistoric Mega-Settlements Were Practically Vegetarian 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 978
Discovery of 'calendar' rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses 'wildest expectations' 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 1138
Ancient bricks reveal enigmas in Earth's magnetic field 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 1105
Rare Ancient Multiplication Tables Found In 2,300-Year-Old Chinese Tomb 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 961
A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten The Fall Of The Roman Empire 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 46 3007
Spirals Carved Into Colorado Rocks Thousands of Years Ago Could Be Ancient Calendars 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 22 1133
Early Neolithic high mountain settlers were already carrying out complex livestock and farming activities, finds study 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 1267
Marking the Solstice: Ireland's Ancient Stone Circles... 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 921
New evidence suggests Harappan civilisation is 7,000 to 8,000 years' old 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 1957
Remains of palace, barns dating back 4,000 years found in central China 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 1200
Wooden slips dating back over 1,700 years unearthed in central China 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 1367
A cave painting found in Egyptian Sahara depicts a nativity scene 3,000 years before Jesus' Birth 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 14 1569
Xinhua Silk Road: Museum showcasing culture of China's largest prehistoric stone city opens to public 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 1338
Researcher: The people who painted these rock paintings were neither primitive nor naked 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 21 1573
Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs 5 nightwing1240 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 1217
A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim 10 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 16 2268
Ancient Scythians Did Make Leather Out of Human Skin After All 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 1026
A Monumental Prehistoric Discovery In Siberia Rewrites Human History, Scientists Say 6 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 Dec 2023 28 2143
Summary: Researchers argue those with dyslexia are specialized to explore the unknown. This explorative bias has 6 applegrove Dec 2023 Dec 2023 21 2122
The World's Oldest Settlements Were Built by a Culture Nobody Expected 4 Warpy Dec 2023 Dec 2023 20 1593
Divers Found Cargo That Might Just Lead to a 'Mind-Blowing' Neolithic Shipwreck 3 WhiteTara Dec 2023 Dec 2023 15 1820
Greeks Are Descendants of the Mycenaeans, DNA Study Confirms 6 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Dec 2023 7 1350

Anthropology Continued...

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This Is The Face Of "Dragon Man", Modern Humans' Closest Relative 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 16 1660
The iconic Viking halls probably had stylish glass windows 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 692
Archaeologists 'surprised' by 6,500-year-old Stone Age site near Arctic 3 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 28 1723
People in Europe Ate Seaweed for Thousands of Years Before It Disappeared From Their Diets 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1000
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancels meet with Greek PM over Elgin Marbles row BBC News 2 xocetaceans Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1194
5:06 / 10:01 The Sound of Ancient Languages. Full Version. You Haven't Seen Anything Like This Before! 22 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 19 3616
Long before they became a Thanksgiving staple, turkeys were revered by ancient Indigenous communities 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 1030
Archaeologists Discover Traces of Ancient Jalula 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 993
Indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago, likely bringing their languages with them, ancient DNA revea 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1317
World's Oldest War Weapons Factory Existed 7,200 Years Ago In Israel 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 863
Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of mysterious port city not on any maps 8 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 18 1742
some cool images of Tenochtitlan 5 Kali Nov 2023 Nov 2023 12 1195
Satellites spy remnants of hidden Bronze Age settlement in Serbia 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 17 1181
Hunter-gatherer approach to childcare suggests that the key to mother and child well-being may be many caregivers 4 eShirl Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 1342
Lice DNA records the moment Europeans colonized the Americas 9 sl8 Nov 2023 Nov 2023 11 1459
Oxyrhynchus Papyri - Huge treasure trove of paper (papyrus) documents from ancient garbage dump 0 barbaraann Nov 2023 Nov 2023 15 1704
Scotland's 'oldest' tartan found in Highlands bog 7 Wicked Blue Mar 2023 Nov 2023 20 2359
Large-scale warfare occurred in Europe '1,000 years earlier than previously thought' 4 Eugene Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 1769
Extraordinarily Well-Preserved 3,000-Year-Old Octagonal Sword Unearthed In Germany 8 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Nov 2023 32 4324
Orkney dig reveals ruins of huge Neolithic tomb 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Nov 2023 11 1480
Uncovering a lost landscape 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 777
ANCIENT 'FEAT OF ENGINEERING' NEARLY 1,000 YEARS OLDER THAN THE PYRAMIDS FOUND ON REMOTE NORTH SEA ISLAND 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 26 1977
Nearly 500,000 Dirhams were buried in Viking-Age Scandinavia, study findsA new study reveals that silver coins from the 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Nov 2023 9 1657
Sneak Peek Into Neanderthal Cooking Habits Reveals They Were Just As Intelligent As Homo Sapiens 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Nov 2023 16 1149
Comet Impact 12,800 Years Ago Sparked the Rise of Agriculture 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Nov 2023 7 1118
1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 13 1232
Two Million Years Ago, This Homo Erectus Lived the High Life 16 sl8 Oct 2023 Oct 2023 26 2905
A thing puzzled me while watching programs 12 moniss Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 1526
A 24,000-YEAR-OLD DISCOVERY IN A EUROPEAN CAVE LEFT RESEARCHERS STUNNED. NOW THEY'RE CALLING IT THE "MOST IMPORTANT" OF ITS KIND 7 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 28 2285
'World-class aquifer' enabled ancient African kingdom to thrive in the Sahara for hundreds of years 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1059

Anthropology Continued...

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The "missing law" of nature was here all along 0 applegrove Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1001
AI Is Used To Share What Ancient Languages Sounded Like 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1204
The oldest pieces of Baltic amber found on the Iberian Peninsula indicates imports began over 5,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1020
Ancient Europeans ate seaweed thousands of years before it became a trendy 'superfood' 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 856
Burial of Dingo Companion Animal Examined in Australia 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 807
Archaeologists found a 'lost 8,000-year-old city' after looking in the English Channel 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1212
21,000-yr-old Footprints in New Mexico may be the oldest evidence of human migration in the Americas 8 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 12 1455
A group of giant mounds built by Native Americans thousands of years ago just became the US' newest 13 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Oct 2023 38 4248
SCIENTISTS FIND STRUCTURE FROM BEFORE HOMO SAPIENS EXISTED 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 22 1353
Danish museum says Vikings had stained glass Windows 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1007
Norwegian Archaeologists Are Salvaging Priceless Artifacts From Melting Glaciers--Before It's Too Lat 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 49 2925
When excavators uncovered an 'ancient British city' near Edinburgh Airport 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 19 772
An app shows how ancient Greek sites looked thousands of years ago. It's a glimpse of future tech 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 948
Stonehenge Before the Druids (Long, Long, Before The Druids) 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 901
How an ancient society in the Sahara Desert rose and fell with groundwater 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 782
Traces of Colorful Paint Detected on Parthenon Sculptures 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 710
Runestones reveal the power of a Viking queen 3 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 792
These footprints confirm that humans were in North America several millenia earlier than previously 2 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 14 1159
Vikings Had Windows, Another Shift Away From Their Image as Barbaric Norsemen, Danish Museum Says 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 981
Researchers say Unangax knowledge can help solve the mystery of Unalaska's ancient bear bones 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 882
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