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Category: History News
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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…
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Ancient World August 3, 2026: Scientists discover 2 new ghost, 500-year-old Inca mummies prove that, Around 150 BCE Aksum rose, and more
Ancient World this week: A new genealogical method applied to 500+ modern human genomes has identified two previously unknown ‘ghost’; and Ancient DNA from two 500-year-old Inca mummies in Chile has yielded the earliest known smallpox…
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Ancient World July 27, 2026: Sacrificed Inca children died very, Archaeologists Discovered 3 300-Year-Old Tombs
Ancient World this week: A new study of three Inca Capacocha mummies from Chile reveals that the children were not killed by hypothermia or; and A 2023 excavation at the Bronze Age port city of Hala Sultan Tekke in Cyprus has yielded over…
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Ancient World July 20, 2026: million-year-old wooden structure, Ancient DNA Reveals, Family holiday unearths mind-blowing ancient, and more
Ancient World this week: Archaeologists have discovered a wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia dated to at least 476,000 years ago; and A 13-year ancient DNA study of 169 individuals from the 4,300-year-old Shimao site in northern…
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18 ancient Egyptian tombs with dozens of gold ‘tongues’ discovered along the Mediterranean
Ancient World this week: Archaeologists in Marina el-Alamein, Egypt, have uncovered 18 Ptolemaic or Roman-era tombs containing 24 gold; and Sam Kean’s book ‘Dinner with King Tut’ explores experimental archaeology through hands-on…