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Beer, Socks and Birthdays at a Roman Fort
A request for beer, a parcel of socks and a birthday invitation survive in ink on wooden tablets from a Roman fort
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Naunakhte Cut Three Children Out of Her Will
A widow of about eighty, a court of fourteen villagers and a papyrus in Oxford that names who inherited and who was cut out
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What Do You Take Me For, Ea-nasir?
A 3,775-year-old clay letter, a merchant’s house at 1 Old Street in Ur and the internet meme that followed
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Tutankhamun’s Dagger Came From Space
Tests on the blade found in the boy king’s wrappings point to metal that fell from space
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The Wardrobe in House IX 11
A wooden cupboard left its outline in the ash at house IX 11, and inside lay 24 pendants, 38 coins and a set of lead weights
Oct 29
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Archaeologists decipher 4,000-year-old Linear Elamite script from ancient Iran
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A Michelangelo Sculpture May Hold the Earliest Image of a Disease Named Three Centuries Later
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The Roman Cup That Changes Color by Magic of Physics
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Sumer’s 4,600-Year-Old Music Theory
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Egypt’s Tomb Builders Staged the First Recorded Strike
In 1157 BC the royal tomb builders of Deir el-Medina sat down behind temples and told officials they were hungry
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Babylonians Tracked Jupiter With Geometry
Five clay tablets show Babylon’s astronomers using geometry 1,400 years before Oxford
Oct 27
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The World’s Oldest Recipes
Four Babylonian clay tablets at Yale hold stews from about 1730 BC, and a modern team has cooked them.
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Kamchatka Stone Points Linked to Tattooing
Wear traces and iron paint on 13,000-year-old stone points from Ushki V, Kamchatka, suggest tattooing, according to two Russian archaeologists.
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The Room With No Door
Watch Now | A sealed wooden chamber under a man-made mountain in Türkiye, holding a king, his furniture, and the leftovers of his funeral feast.
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The Women of Kanesh Ran a Business Empire 4,000 Years Ago
Clay letters from Kültepe show Assyrian women lending silver, running workshops and scolding their husbands
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Faience Workshop Found Behind Kushite Temple
Archaeologists found a faience workshop behind the Sanam Temple at Napata in Sudan. Dated to about 650 BCE, it matches the shabtis from Nuri’s royal…
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When Demons Were a Diagnosis
From a Babylonian clay tablet to a Bavarian bedroom in 1976, people have described the same symptoms and reached for the same explanation. We checked…
Oct 17
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Ice Age Footprints at White Sands Track a Shrinking Lake
The White Sands footprints just got a sharper date. Researchers isolated up to 75,000 pollen grains per sample and cut the radiocarbon uncertainty…
Oct 16
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The Bible’s Kings in Their Enemies’ Words
The strongest evidence for the people of the Bible comes from the rulers who fought them
Oct 15
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Saint Olaf’s Penny Found in the Mørstad Hoard
A rare penny of Olaf Haraldsson, Norway’s patron saint, has been identified in the Mørstad Hoard, the first of its type found in Norway since 1924.
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They Abandoned Every Hillfort in Northern Spain, and Nobody Knows Why
Watch now | Northern Spain emptied its hillforts in one generation around 400 BC. New radiocarbon work shows where it started. Why it happened is still…
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