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The Babylonians Measured Jupiter With a Trapezoid
A fragment of clay in the British Museum, written somewhere between 350 and 50 BC and found near the Esagila temple in Babylon, carries a calculation of…
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A Lament for Inanna, Written in Two Dead Languages
The tablet is clay, about ten centimeters by eight and two and a half thick.
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The Pottery That Was Never Midianite
A team led by Marta Luciani at the University of Vienna has analyzed several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the oasis of Qurayyah in northwest Arabia and…
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The Oldest Love Spell Was Not a Love Song
A small clay tablet in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, catalogued by Assyriologists as MAD 5, 8, carries roughly forty lines of Old Akkadian text.
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The Oldest City Map in the World
A clay tablet roughly the size of a hand, incised more than three thousand years ago, carries a plan of the Mesopotamian city of Nippur.
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New Study of a Hunnic-Era Grave in Kazakhstan
A young woman was buried on the Mangyshlak Peninsula in western Kazakhstan sometime in the second half of the fifth century or the first half of the…
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A Painted Slab From Wetar Island
A limestone slab painted with red concentric circles and radiating lines has been excavated at the Huknaur rock shelter on Wetar Island, in eastern…
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The King Who Ruled for 28,800 Years
Watch now | Eight kings ruled 241,200 years before the flood. Then the numbers started shrinking. What the Sumerian King List was really built to do…
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A Royal Kushan Seal Found in Tajikistan
Archaeologists from the National Museum of Tajikistan have recovered a fired clay seal at Sayyod, in the Abdurahmoni Jomi district of Khatlon province.
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Two Denisovan Leg Bones From the Taiwan Strait
A femur and a partial tibia dredged from the seafloor of the Penghu Channel have been identified as Denisovan from their collagen proteins, and they are…
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Second Fortress Found on Egypt's Way of Horus
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Egypt has announced a second fortress at Tell el-Kharouba in North Sinai, along with a granite block bearing…
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These Paintings Were Made With Human Blood
Red figures cover the limestone cliffs above the Zuojiang river in Guangxi, in southern China near the Vietnamese border.
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Five Hundred Pieces of Egyptian Blue From Iron Age Iran
Around five hundred objects made of moulded Egyptian blue paste have been identified in the Penn Museum's collections from Hasanlu and Dinkha Tepe, two…
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The Nippur Medical Tablet
Penn Museum object CBS 14221 is a clay tablet from Nippur, 15.4 by 9.3 centimeters and 2.8 thick, ruled into three columns and written in Sumerian.
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Göbekli Tepe: the north side of the mound is being excavated for the first time
Türkiye's Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that the 2026 season at Göbekli Tepe has moved into ground that has never been dug before.
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Three Tombs at Sheikh Soby in the Bahariya Oasis
An Egyptian mission working at Sheikh Soby, in the Bahariya Oasis some three hundred kilometers southwest of Cairo, has excavated three tombs holding…
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The Ancient “H”: Symbol, Script, or Coincidence?
Watch now | Across distant civilizations, strikingly similar “H” carvings appear in ancient stonework.
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