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Category: Ancient World
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Archaeological finds from ancient, Third Intermediate Period Egypt, and more.
Archaeological finds from ancient civilizations this week: The Third Intermediate Period (c.
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New discoveries in human evolution, weird result already weird, and more.
New discoveries in human evolution and ancient hominins this week: Proteomic analysis of dental enamel from 20 Homo naledi individuals recovered from South Africa’s Rising Star cave; and Archaeological and genetic evidence increasingly…
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Pre-Hispanic ruins and artifacts in, Archaeologists discover ‘never-before-seen’ pre-Hispanic
Pre-Hispanic ruins and artifacts in Mexico this week: Archaeologists in Veracruz, Mexico, have uncovered a pre-Hispanic site with a circular stone platform and a carved; and Archaeologists in Veracruz, Mexico, have uncovered a…
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Ancient plague outbreaks traced, Ancient DNA rewrites plague, and more.
Ancient plague outbreaks traced through DNA this week: Ancient DNA analysis of 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer remains near Siberia’s Lake Baikal has identified the oldest; and Researchers analyzing ancient teeth from Siberian cemeteries…
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Egyptian tombs that reshape pyramid, 5 000-year-old tombs found, and more.
Egyptian tombs that reshape pyramid origins this week: Archaeologists in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have uncovered two Early Dynastic tombs at Jabal al-Tayr, revealing; and Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered tombs and burials at Jabal…
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‘It was very very good’: Ötzi the Iceman’s body is covered in ancient yeast — and scientists
Ancient World this week: Researchers have cultivated four strains of cold-adapted yeast from Ötzi the Iceman’s skin and internal remains; and A series of red horizontal lines discovered in Bacon Hole, a Welsh cave, have been confirmed as…
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Ancient Religions, Gods & Cultural, Ancient Israelite Judean Religion, and more.
Ancient Religions, Gods & Cultural History this week: Archaeological and textual evidence reveals that ancient Israelite and Judean religion from the 10th to 7th; and A study in Nature Geoscience uses seismic data and sediment analysis to…
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Ancient Cities, Religion &, Ancient Israelite Judean Religion, and more.
Ancient Cities, Religion & Civilization this week: Archaeological and textual evidence confirms that Israelite and Judean religion from the 10th to 7th centuries BCE; and A stone block bearing the cartouche of the 12th Dynasty pharaoh…
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Ancient DNA, Science & Technology in, Ancient Yeasts Identified tzi Iceman, and more.
Ancient DNA, Science & Technology in Archaeology this week: Researchers have identified four species of ancient yeast on the surface of Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old; and A genomic study of 118 ancient sheep remains, spanning 12,000…
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Ancient Health, Medicine & Biology, Toxic plant Ming dynasty-era, and more.
Ancient Health, Medicine & Biology this week: A study published in Antiquity analyzes residue on 600-year-old iron surgical tools from a Ming dynasty tomb; and Researchers using micro-Raman spectroscopy have identified aconitine residue…