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Prehistoric Engravings Reveal that Fishing Nets Were Used 15,800 Years Ago During the Upper Paleolithic in Germany
A recently published study reveals the existence of ancient fishing techniques at the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, ...
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The Zanj Rebellion, when slaves and Bedouins rose against the Abbasid Caliphate
The characteristic minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra, the city where the Zanj Rebellion broke out. Credit: Taisir Mahdi ...
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A Small Bronze Age Walled City Found in the Arabian Desert
Reconstruction of the Bronze Age settlement of al-Natah in Saudi Arabia. Credit: AFALULA-RCU-CNRS A team of archaeologists led by Guillaume Charloux of France’s National Center for Scientific Research ...
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Large Roman Villa Where Falernian Wine, the Most Esteemed in the Empire Was Produced, Found in Campania
View of the large Roman villa discovered in Campania. Credit: Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Caserta e Benevento Construction work on an agrivoltaic plant has ...
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The Enigmatic Prehistoric Engraved Slate Plaques of the Iberian Peninsula are Genealogical Records and One of the Earliest Forms of Writing in Europe
Some of the prehistoric slate engraved plaques found in tombs in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Credit: Eduardo Estellez / K. Lillios / Antonio Valera / V. Hurtado / Museus e Monumentos de ...
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A Shipwreck from the Late 1st Century B.C. with 40 Amphorae Transporting Alum, Still Aligned in Its Cargo Arrangement, Found off the Coast of Syracuse
View of the cargo of the wreck found in Syracuse. Credit: Soprintendenza del Mare The Richborough 527 type amphora takes its name from the Richborough archaeological site in Kent, England, where this ...
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Evidence Found that the Mysterious Dark Energy Driving the Expansion of the Universe is Created Inside Black Holes
In the earliest moments of the universe, nearly 14 billion years ago, a phenomenon both fascinating and mysterious occurred. At the very moment of the Big Bang, an unknown force triggered a rapid ...
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Hieroglyph meaning “city” in the Luwian language spoken in Anatolia until the 7th century B.C. deciphered
A research team led by Petra M. Goedegebuure from the University of Chicago has presented a groundbreaking study on the word used for “city” in the Luwian language, spoken in ancient Anatolia. This ...
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The Spectacular Mud Volcanoes of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, located between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains, is home to hundreds of active mud volcanoes. Locally known as “yanardagh”, which means “burning mountain”, these volcanoes ...
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A Macedonian Vase Found in a Bronze Age Sanctuary Reveals the Origin of the Protogeometric Style in Northern Greece, Not in Athens
A recent archaeological study challenges conventional notions about the origin of the Protogeometric ceramic style in Greece, suggesting that its starting point was not Athens, as traditionally ...
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Mount Medullius, the Site of the Last Cantabrian Resistance Against the Roman Conquest Whose Location Remains Unknown
The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...
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The Talking Statues of Rome
Statues don’t talk, evidently, and they never have, except when some clever priest of Antiquity used a hollow in the stone to deliver whatever message he was interested in. But that’s not the case ...