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Evidence of a Roman ritual with pig jaws found among remains of a legionary camp
In February 2024, the discovery of the camp of the Legio VI Ferrata was announced at the site called Legio at the foot of Tel ...
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What Lies in the Very Deep Ocean? We’ve Barely Seen 0.001% of the Seafloor
A study reveals that to this day, only a tiny fraction of the ocean floor has been visually recorded. Although it covers ...
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Obsidian Artifacts Found at the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan Came from Enemy Territory
Archaeologists from Tulane University and the Templo Mayor Project of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History ...
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Oymyakon, the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth, Where Fish Freeze 30 Seconds After Being Caught
The lowest temperature ever recorded in an inhabited area is -71.2º Celsius (-96,2ºF). Not only that, it’s also the lowest ...
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The Giants of Mont’e Prama, Iron Age sculptures found in Sardinia, could represent people with acromegaly
The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic civilization that inhabited the island of Sardinia between the 18th and 2nd ...
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The Mystery of the “Ladies of Anavlochos”, the Broken Female Figurines Found on a Mountain in Crete
Archaeological excavations at the ancient settlement of Anavlochos, on a mountainside on the island of Crete, uncovered hundreds of figurines and votive clay plaques hidden among the cracks in the ...
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The Ice Maiden of Altai: The Spectacular Discovery of the Tomb of a Scythian Female Shaman Frozen in Time
In the summer of 1993, archaeologist Natalia Polosmak and her team were in Ukok, Siberia, investigating a group of kurgans near the border with Mongolia—burial mounds from the Pazyryk culture created ...
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Ordenstaat, the State Founded by the Teutonic Knights in the Baltic
It was not the first time an attempt had been made to subjugate them. Adalbert of Prague, Bolesław IV of Poland, the Kievan Rus, and Conrad I of Masovia had tried before, but without lasting success, ...
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Marcus Terentius Varro, the Roman scholar who conceived the existence of microorganisms sixteen centuries before their discovery
When looking for the origin of microbiology, it is typical to refer to the latter part of the 19th century, when it developed as a science due to researchers like Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Martinus ...
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Oldest Evidence of Sicily’s First Settlers, who Used the Island as a “Glacial Refuge”, Discovered
Entrance to the cave where the remains were found, on the northern slope of Mount San Fratello in Acquedolci, Messina. Credit: V. Forgia et al. In San Teodoro cave, north-eastern Sicily, a team of ...
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British Isles tin enabled mass production of Bronze in Europe and the Mediterranean in the ancient world
A pioneering study by Durham University experts has revealed one of archaeology’s oldest mysteries—where early Bronze Age societies obtained the tin to produce bronze. Using advanced scientific ...
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CERN’s Collider Achieves Transmutation of Lead into Gold in an Experiment
For centuries, alchemists sought to convert common metals into gold, a phenomenon known as chrysopoeia. Now, thanks to advances in nuclear physics, this ancient aspiration has unexpectedly become a ...