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Category: Ancient World
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Ancient World September 21, 2026: Rare ancient tombs uncovered at Egypt’s ‘Mound of the Jews’
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered rare rock-cut tombs and additional remains of a Roman military camp at Tell el-Yahudiya, an ancient site in the Nile Delta. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery on Saturday, following continued excavations by an Egyptian archaeological mission. The tombs are dated to the end of Egypt’s New Kingdom,…
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Ancient World September 14, 2026: Archaeologists Say 3,200-Year-Old Inscription May Point to ‘Lost’ Ancient Egyptian City
Ancient Discoveries and Artifacts this week: The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities reported the discovery of a roughly 3,200-year-old stone; and The Guldhøj folding chair, excavated in 1891 from a burial mound in southern…
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Ancient World September 14, 2026: Archaeologists Uncover a Neolithic Sculpture of a Human Riding a Leopard That’s ‘Unlike Anything We Have Encountered Before’
Prehistoric Art and Structures this week: Archaeologists at Karahan Tepe, an 11,000-year-old site in southeastern Turkey, have unearthed a 2; and Cave art in eight Irish caves, identified using a computer model trained on Welsh sites, may…
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Ancient World September 14, 2026: UK museum to return remains of 39 people to India’s Naga community
Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum has agreed to return the remains of 39 Naga people to the Naga community in northeast India, following a claim for 40 sets of ancestral remains made in February 2026.
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Ancient World September 7, 2026: 15,000-year-old cave art discovery could rewrite the story of Ireland’s first humans
Researchers have identified prehistoric artwork in eight caves in south-west Ireland that they believe dates to at least 15,000 years ago, pushing back the earliest known human presence on the island by around 5,000…
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Ancient World August 31, 2026: 1,300-Year-Old Textile Fragments Found in Viking Woman’s Grave
Mysterious burials and human remains this week: Textile fragments have been discovered in a Viking woman’s eighth-century tomb at the Skonager site in Western; and Archaeologists with Highland Archaeology Services discovered a…
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Ancient World August 31, 2026: Prehistoric Turtle Figurines Found in Turkey
Archaeologists led by Deniz Sarı of Edebali University have discovered 25 limestone turtle figurines in a cave at Gedikkaya Hill in northwestern Turkey, dated to between 14,500 and 11,200 years ago.
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Ancient World August 24, 2026: Archaeologists Looked Into a 2,500-Year-Old Well—and Found Strange Remains of a Lost Civilization – AOL
Ancient Discoveries Rewriting Human History this week: During the University of Bologna’s 39th excavation campaign at the Kainua Archaeological Park, a team led by; and Archaeologists excavating a site beneath Lake İznik in Turkey have…
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Ancient World August 17, 2026: Roman Empire Worldhistory
This article traces the fusion of imperial authority and Christian doctrine from Constantine’s elevation as head of the Church to Ambrose’s excommunication of Theodosius I, arguing that heresy became treason and that…
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Ancient World August 10, 2026: These were harder than any, 74 BC Liu He ruled, Brains don’t always rot Scientists, and more
Ancient World this week: Archaeologist Gill Juleff has reverse-engineered the lost technique for forging Wootz steel, the legendary; and The 2011 discovery of Liu He’s tomb—the Marquis of Haihun—has transformed a 27-day emperor dismissed…