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Explorers find WWII ship sunk with over 1,000 Allied POWs
A team of explorers announced it found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia's largest maritime wartime ...
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Geochemical analyses of stone artifacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
Polynesian peoples are renowned for their advanced sailing technology and for reaching the most remote islands on the planet centuries before the Europeans reached the Americas. Through swift eastward migrations that are ...
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Apr 21, 2023
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Insights into sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins
The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins—which were imaged using a non-invasive technique—are described in a new study published in Scientific Reports.
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Apr 20, 2023
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Secret ingredient in durable Maya plaster discovered
A team of mineralogists and geologists at the University of Granada has discovered the secret behind the durability of ancient Maya plaster. In their study, reported in Science Advances, the group studied samples of the ancient ...
Mexico finds 8 sacrificial victims at Gulf coast pyramid
Archaeologists in Mexico said Wednesday they have found 13 buried sets of human remains, eight of which appear to be young men who were apparently decapitated as part of a ceremony to consecrate a temple.
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Apr 20, 2023
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Chicken breeding in Japan dates back to fourth century BCE
Conclusive evidence of chicken breeding in the Yayoi period of Japan has been discovered from the Karako-Kagi site.
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Apr 20, 2023
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Ancient necropolis unearthed next to busy Paris train station
Just meters from a busy train station in the heart of Paris, scientists have uncovered 50 graves in an ancient necropolis which offer a rare glimpse of life in the French capital's precursor Lutetia nearly 2000 years ago.
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Apr 19, 2023
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How do plagues change history?
"Every once in a while a book lands on your desk that changes the way you perceive the world you live in, a book that fundamentally challenges your understanding of human history." So began the blurb that came with this book. ...
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Apr 19, 2023
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Ancient DNA reveals commercial viticulture in Byzantine and Early Islamic settlements
Researchers in Israel led by Tel Aviv University have uncovered commercial-scale viticulture in ancient Byzantine and Early Islamic settlements dated to the 4th to the 9th centuries. In a paper, "Ancient DNA from a lost Negev ...
Researchers plan to use coral to unravel the history of the slave trade on St. Croix
Coral reefs are more than just a vital part of the ocean. They can also reveal clues about the past. Analyzing coral skeletons can paint a rich picture of the environmental history of an ecosystem, from temperature variability ...
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Apr 18, 2023
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Norse Greenlanders found to have imported timber from North America
Archaeologists have used wood taxa analysis to distinguish between imported, drift and native wood from five Norse farmsteads on Greenland.
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Apr 18, 2023
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Anemia found to be common in ancient mummified Egyptian children
A team of paleopathologists and medical experts from Germany, the U.S. and Italy has found that anemia was common in ancient Egyptian children who had been mummified. In their study, reported in the International Journal ...
Leonardo da Vinci, a new discovery on folio 843 of Codex Atlanticus
The Codex Atlanticus is one of the most extensive and fascinating collections of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and writings. Its preservation is a great challenge for scholars and researchers. An in-depth study, published ...
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Apr 18, 2023
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Researchers describe sea-level rise in southwest Greenland as a contributor to Viking abandonment
Vikings occupied Greenland from roughly 985 to 1450, farming and building communities before abandoning their settlements and mysteriously vanishing. Why they disappeared has long been a puzzle, but a new paper from the Harvard ...
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Apr 17, 2023
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Research supports rock structure likely used for bone tool work at Spain's El Mirón Cave
As far back as 45,000 years ago, groups of hunter-gatherers lived in what is now called El Mirón Cave near the northern coast of Spain. First discovered for science in 1903 by local archaeologists and surveyed by University ...
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Apr 17, 2023
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A newly uncovered ancient Roman winery features marble tiling, fountains of grape juice and an extreme sense of luxury
Recent excavations at the Villa of the Quintilii uncovered the remains of a unique winery just outside Rome.
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Apr 17, 2023
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More than 100 pre-Hispanic religious sites linked to ancient Andean cults discovered in Bolivia
A trio of archaeologists from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina, the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Institute of Research for Development, France, has found more than ...
Research reveals a 3,500-year history of dairy consumption on the Tibetan Plateau
It's not called the Third Pole for nothing. The Tibetan Plateau forms the major portion of a vast upland area of ice and glaciers that covers some 100,000 square kilometers of Earth's surface.
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Apr 16, 2023
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DNA study opens a window into African civilisations that left a lasting legacy
Pre-colonial African history is alive with tales of civilizations rising and falling and of different cultures intermingling across the continent. We have now shed more light on some of these societies using the science of ...
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Apr 16, 2023
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Iraq's ancient treasures sand-blasted by climate change
Iraqi archaeological marvels that have survived millennia and the ravages of war now face a modern threat: being blasted and slowly buried by sandstorms linked to climate change.
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Apr 16, 2023
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