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11 Completely Sealed Tombs Filled with Jewelry, Copper Ingots, and Other Artifacts Found in Southern Egypt
The joint Egyptian-American archaeological mission dedicated to the restoration of the Asasif necropolis in southern Egypt ...
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Part of Math’s “Rosetta Stone” Solved: Hidden Connections Between Number Theory, Harmonic Analysis, and Geometry
Sam Raskin, a mathematician and professor at Yale University, has achieved a monumental accomplishment in mathematics by ...
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Cannae, the Catastrophic Defeat That Left Rome Defenseless Against Hannibal
The last human sacrifices carried out in Rome—beyond considering the ludi gladiatorii as an acceptable adaptation of the ...
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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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The Enigmatic Prehistoric Engraved Slate Plaques of the Iberian Peninsula are Genealogical Records and One of the Earliest Forms of Writing in Europe
Some of the prehistoric slate engraved plaques found in tombs in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Credit: Eduardo Estellez / K. Lillios / Antonio Valera / V. Hurtado / Museus e Monumentos de ...
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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 Macedonian Vase Found in a Bronze Age Sanctuary Reveals the Origin of the Protogeometric Style in Northern Greece, Not in Athens
A recent archaeological study challenges conventional notions about the origin of the Protogeometric ceramic style in Greece, suggesting that its starting point was not Athens, as traditionally ...
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Evidence Found that the Mysterious Dark Energy Driving the Expansion of the Universe is Created Inside Black Holes
In the earliest moments of the universe, nearly 14 billion years ago, a phenomenon both fascinating and mysterious occurred. At the very moment of the Big Bang, an unknown force triggered a rapid ...
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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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The Talking Statues of Rome
Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to deliver whatever message he was interested in. But that’s not the case ...
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Numerous underground structures, cavities, corridors, and previously unknown tombs detected in the Etruscan necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto
Aerial view of the necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto. Credit: TAP (Tuscania Archaeological Project) The Etruscan necropolis of Sasso Pinzuto, located near Tuscania in the Italian region of Lazio, has been ...