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Neanderthals and Modern Humans Shared the Same Culture for Thousands of Years in a Turkish Cave
On Turkey's Mediterranean coast, in a cave barely the size of a studio apartment, two different human species lived out remarkably similar lives across…
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Elephant Bioenergetics Point to the Real Route of Hannibal's Alpine Crossing
For more than two thousand years, one of history's most famous marches has resisted a final answer.
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Ancient "Miracle Food". How Manna Could Form in the Wild
Every autumn in the Zagros foothills, families still climb into oak groves to scrape a sticky exudate off the leaves and boil it down into molasses.
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The Tomb No One Can Reach
On a mountaintop in southeastern Turkey, a king built a 50 meter artificial peak out of crushed rock to hide his tomb.
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60.8 Percent of Roman Emperors Died Violently, New Study Finds
Ruling Rome and ruling China during antiquity meant facing very different odds of survival.
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New Research Argues Homer's Ithaca Was Never Called an Island
For more than twenty years, a small group of scholars has pursued an audacious idea, that the Ithaca of Homer's Odyssey, the homeland Odysseus spent ten…
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BREAKING: 18 Ancient Tombs Found at Marina El Alamein in Egypt
On Egypt's northwestern Mediterranean coast, the Egyptian archaeological mission working at Marina El Alamein has announced a new discovery, eighteen…
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The 'Hobbit' Did Not Hunt and Did Not Control Fire, New Bone Analysis Suggests
For two decades, the tiny extinct human species nicknamed the hobbit has stood as a puzzle at the edge of our family tree, small enough to have stood…
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Water for the City, Nothing for the Enemy
Around 701 BC, Jerusalem was preparing for the worst siege of its history.
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Ancient DNA Shows Elite Families Ruled the Nomadic Scythians 2,500 Years Ago
The Scythians live in the imagination as free-riding horse nomads, fierce in battle and roaming the open grassland with no fixed center of power.
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Entire Byzantine Town Found in Egypt's Western Desert
Far out in Egypt's Western Desert, some 350 kilometers from the Nile, archaeologists have uncovered an entire residential city of the Byzantine era…
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Tunisia's Extraordinary 1,400-Year-Old Baptistery
In 1993, a quarry in Tunisia accidentally uncovered something that had been buried for 1,400 years.
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