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A Rare Copper Age Dagger Over 4,000 Years Old Discovered in Northern Italy
Copper tang dagger dating to the second half of the 3rd millennium B.C. at the time of discovery. Credit: Federico Bernardini ...
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Mount Medullius, the Site of the Last Cantabrian Resistance Against the Roman Conquest Whose Location Remains Unknown
The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...
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Hieroglyph meaning “city” in the Luwian language spoken in Anatolia until the 7th century B.C. deciphered
A research team led by Petra M. Goedegebuure from the University of Chicago has presented a groundbreaking study on the word used for “city” in the Luwian language, spoken in ancient Anatolia. This ...
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Marcus Valerius Laevinus, the Roman general who persuaded the senators to donate their assets to fund the war against Hannibal
The Triumph of Rome over Sicily, by Jacopo Ripanda (in the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Capitoline Museums, Rome). Credit: José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / Wikimedia Commons The name Marcus Valerius ...
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The Oldest Ochre Mine in the World Discovered in Southern Africa
An aerial view of the remaining intact portions of Lion Cavern, Ngwenya iron ore complex in northwest Eswatini. Credit: Brandi L. MacDonald, Gregor Bader and Jörg Linstädter An international team of ...
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A Man Thrown Into a Well 900 Years Ago, Identified and Linked to Viking Sagas
The well at the Sverresborg castle, the site of the find, during the recovery work in 2016 Credit: Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research Archaeology and genetics have come together in a ...
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The Stone Tower, the place marking the midpoint of the Silk Road and whose coordinates Ptolemy mentions, has never been found
Throughout the centuries, the mythical Stone Tower has been a fascinating enigma for geographers, historians, and archaeologists worldwide. This location is mentioned in Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography ...
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A Shipwreck from the Late 1st Century B.C. with 40 Amphorae Transporting Alum, Still Aligned in Its Cargo Arrangement, Found off the Coast of Syracuse
View of the cargo of the wreck found in Syracuse. Credit: Soprintendenza del Mare The Richborough 527 type amphora takes its name from the Richborough archaeological site in Kent, England, where this ...
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A Small Bronze Age Walled City Found in the Arabian Desert
Reconstruction of the Bronze Age settlement of al-Natah in Saudi Arabia. Credit: AFALULA-RCU-CNRS A team of archaeologists led by Guillaume Charloux of France’s National Center for Scientific Research ...
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Fossil of an Extinct Animal That Lacked Eyes Found Petrified in Pyrite in an Exceptionally Well-Preserved State
Paleontologists have made a fascinating discovery in New York State: fossil remains of an ancient species of arthropod that existed approximately 450 million years ago, whose preservation is ...
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Porto Flavia, the Seaport Hanging from a Cliff
In the municipality of Iglesias, in the southwest of the island of Sardinia, and near the town of Nebida, lies one of the world’s most remarkable feats of engineering: a seaport literally hanging from ...
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The Enigmatic and Empty Prehistoric Hillforts of the Samnites Were Not What They Seem
Aerial view looking from west to east showing the site with the plateau of Monte Cognolo in the foreground and the summit of Santa Croce in the background. The village of Villa Santa Croce is on the ...