News - Megalithic 'Giant's Tomb' Uncovered in Sardinia - Archaeology Magazine

BORTIGALI, SARDINIA—Finestre Sull’Arte reports that an archaeological survey conducted by Italian authorities located a previously […]

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3,000-year-old spelt and pottery discovered in sunken settlement beneath Italian lake

Archaeologists investigating a submerged prehistoric settlement in Italy have uncovered Late Bronze Age pottery, remarkably preserved ears of spelt and mysterious wooden structures, adding to a series...

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Etruscan votive offerings found in ritual well

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Etruscan city of Kainua near Marzabotto, northern Italy, have uncovered an exceptionally preserved ritual well containing bronze votive offerings and human remain...

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Ancient diet reveals gender inequality, migration, and social status in a 2,700-year-old Italian community | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Study of 2,700-year-old Italian graves finds diet, migration, and social status were more complex than burial wealth suggests.

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Plot Twist newsletter: The best bookshops in the world

Alexandra Suich Bass, our culture editor, reveals the qualities of a great bookstore

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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared

An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.

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Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration after a devastating cri...

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World's oldest evidence of habitual drug use traced back 25,000 years to Indonesia

Hunter-gatherers from the last ice age sucked on betel nuts to soothe their toothaches, a new study reveals.

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Palaces and the Pope: the fascinating story of how Renaissance Rome was rebuilt

Uncertainty over whether the seat of the papacy would remain in the city explains why Rome was a late developer when it came to palace-building, lagging behind Florence and Venice.

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Morocco’s hidden history: archaeology, DNA and carbon dating rewrite the story of the ancient world

New research shows northwest African communities actively shaped connections and exchange between many cultures.

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Got a Brawny Build? You Might Be Able to Thank Your Neanderthal Ancestors, According to a New Study

New research hints that some living people inherited a gene variant from Neanderthals that has made them slightly taller and more muscular than their peers

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Enigmatic Denisovans lived by cave in what is now China for 100,000 years, rare fossils and handcrafted tools reveal

Anthropologists have discovered the first-ever Denisovan arm bone in a cave in southwest China, which also held thousands of prehistoric animal bones and stone tools.

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How to be a word detective | Psyche Guides

Etymology unravels the mysteries of language and the hidden webs that link people across the world. Here’s how to dive in

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Ancient mega-structure discovered in Romania

Archaeologists investigating a prehistoric settlement in northeastern Romania have uncovered evidence from a massive communal building that could transform our understanding of how some of Europe's ea...

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Medieval Palace Discovered in Uzbekistan - Medievalists.net

Archaeologists in Uzbekistan have uncovered an eighth-century palace complex at Mingtepa, along with sculptures that offer new insights into medieval Central Asia.

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Onam – Beyond the legends

A Blog covering Indian history, Kerala, Malabar, music, books, films, personalities events and many issues of importance

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Live birth may have evolved 90 million years earlier than thought

Scientists found evidence of live birth in a mammal that lived more than 230 million years ago, rewriting evolutionary timelines.

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How asteroids may have sparked life on Earth

Ancient asteroid impacts may have done more than reshape Earth's surface—they could have helped spark life itself. New computer models show the collisions created enormous underground hydrotherma...

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What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?

Experiment put atoms in a superposition of trajectories to find out.

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Finland's largest Viking Age silver hoard discovered by metal detectorist — and it has thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry

The largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Finland was unearthed by a metal detectorist north of Helsinki.

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The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth's first crust

The heat of the Hadean may have come from impacts as well as the interior.

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Why France’s illustrious history of cheesemaking is full of holes

Bréhémont, clayn, chalamon or craponne… Never heard of them? These cheeses of old speak volumes about France’s history of cheesemaking.

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How the ‘first bird’ leapt into the sky and soared above the dinosaurs

Archaeopteryx is an evolutionary icon for scientists.

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To Researchers' Surprise, This Giant Dinosaur Laid Eggs in a Cold Climate

A new study suggests that titanosaurs used rotting vegetation to keep their eggs warm much like crocodiles do today

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A Vietnam Veteran Collected Fossils for 66 Years. One, Mislabeled 'Baby Lamprey,' Made Paleontologists Reconsider How Vertebrates Moved From Water to Land

The fossil turned out to be a hatchling of a crocodile-like creature, and it suggests, according to a new study, that early animals did not use metamorphosis to evolve to dwell on land

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A mysterious signal around Earth could be dark matter

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed forms of dark matter. The approach dramatically improved limits on ultralig...

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Luwian Hieroglyphs on 2,900-Year-Old Steles Reveal a Forgotten Iron Age King | Anatolian Archaeology

Luwian hieroglyphs on 2,900-year-old Arsuz Steles reveal Iron Age king Suppiluliuma, his divine claims, and campaigns toward...

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Physicists Detected a Signal That Defies Explanation. It Could Be Dark Matter—or Something Stranger

Researchers have been searching for this elusive substance for years. One team may have finally found something.

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