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Three Doors to Hades, and the One That Still Kills
Three ancient gates to the underworld, tested by science. One still kills birds at Hierapolis, one is disputed at Delphi, one held catapults.
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What Ancient DNA Says About the First Americans
Proposed dates for the first people in the Americas span more than 100,000 years.
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Three Legendary Lands That Turned Out to Be Real
Egyptian soldiers carrying incense trees back from Punt, from the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, around 1470 BC.
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Did Meretneith Rule Egypt?
In a tomb at Saqqara, the British archaeologist Walter B.
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Two Thousand Gods on a School List
A Babylonian schoolboy named Šamaš-riḫtu-uṣur once walked out into the countryside, picked up clean clay from a holy deposit and carried it home on his…
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September 2026

The Handbag of the Gods
On the walls of an Assyrian palace, winged figures stand in pairs with a small pail in one hand and a cone in the other.
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Who Dug Derinkuyu?
Derinkuyu reaches about 85 metres into the Cappadocian tuff, and nobody has yet dated its first chamber. Surveyors link its great expansion to Byzantine…
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Three Lost Continents and Where They Came From
Lemuria began with lemur fossils, Mu with a mistranslated Maya book, Kumari Kandam with Tamil poetry. How three lost continents became one myth.
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The Babylonian King Behind Enoch
Genesis gives Enoch a handful of verses.
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Did Anyone Remember the End of the Ice Age
Between about 14,700 and 11,700 years ago the world changed faster than at any time since.
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A Pyramid Tomb With a Greek Elegy at Bir el-Shaghala
An Egyptian mission has uncovered a mudbrick pyramid tomb of the Roman period at Bir el-Shaghala, in the Dakhla Oasis in New Valley governorate.
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The First Burials at Göbeklitepe
Two intact burials have now been excavated at Göbeklitepe, the first from the site in thirty years of digging.
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