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Category: Ancient World
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Recent Archaeological Discoveries &, Gessel gold hoard 3, and more.
Recent Archaeological Discoveries & Excavations this week: The Gessel hoard, discovered in 2011 during pipeline construction near Syke, Germany, comprises 117 gold artifacts; and A panel of 11 parallel red lines in Bacon Hole cave on the…
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Ancient Discoveries & Artifacts, 17 000-year-old stripes red Welsh cave are oldest, and more.
Ancient Discoveries & Artifacts this week: A panel of 11 parallel red lines in Bacon Hole, a Welsh cave discovered in 1912 and later dismissed as natural, has; and The Gessel hoard, discovered in 2011 during pipeline construction in…
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New Technologies and Methods in, Innovating archaeology Scholars utilize, and more.
New Technologies and Methods in Archaeology this week: A team from the University of Hong Kong is deploying Mixed and Augmented Reality headsets during active; and This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal…
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Archaeological Discoveries and, 1 200-year-old giant ‘death, and more.
Archaeological Discoveries and Artifacts this week: Archaeologists have confirmed the mortuary function of the Plain of Jars in Laos through the first undisturbed; and A Neanderthal molar from Chagyrskaya Cave in Siberia shows a precisely…
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Ancient DNA and Genetics Rewriting, DNA sequencing is rewriting, and more.
Ancient DNA and Genetics Rewriting History this week: Genomic sequencing has become a primary tool for tracing the evolutionary history and spread of pathogens, from; and A study analyzing the world’s largest ancient human gene bank has…
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Roundup: Ancient Science Shifts, Plague DNA Confirmed, and Pottery Dating Refined
Ancient civilizations and general archaeology this week: Archaeological science is undergoing a paradigm shift, moving from speculative interpretation to data-driven; and A mass grave in Jerash, Jordan, has provided direct genetic…
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Roundup: Ancient Artifacts Unearthed, a goddess bowl lost in German woods, and more.
Recent archaeological discoveries and artifacts this week: The Athena bowl, a silver and gold-accented vessel depicting the goddess and her owl, was part of the Hildesheim; and A hiker in southwest Norway discovered a rare gold scabbard…
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Repatriation and cultural heritage, Greece Recovers Five Ancient, and more.
Repatriation and cultural heritage news this week: Greece has recovered five ancient artifacts from the heirs of Richard and Mary L; and Three siblings in Chicago voluntarily repatriated a collection of ancient artifacts to Greece’s…
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Ancient DNA research and, What ancient bones reveal about human history, and more.
Ancient DNA research and bioarchaeology this week: The convergence of satellite archaeology and ancient DNA analysis has moved from a promising interdisciplinary trend; and The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has intensified…
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Archaeological discoveries and, Archaeological Discoveries April 2026 Livestream, and more.
Archaeological discoveries and fieldwork updates this week: A slate of April 2026 discoveries refines the material record of Bronze Age to Roman-era Europe and North Africa; and A University of Wrocław team led by Agata Kubala has used CT…