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Category: History News
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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…
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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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Ancient Cultures, Gods, & Artifacts, Lion’s head pendant ancient, and more.
Ancient Cultures, Gods, & Artifacts Explained this week: A 3,500-year-old Egyptian amethyst lion’s head, originally carved as a senet game piece, was repurposed roughly 800; and Archaeological and textual evidence from sites like…
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Recent Archaeological Finds &, 1 200-year-old giant ‘death, and more.
Recent Archaeological Finds & Excavations this week: Archaeologists excavating a 1,200-year-old stone jar at Laos’s Plain of Jars have, for the first time, confirmed the; and Archaeologists from the Archaeological Center Olomouc have…
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Ancient DNA & Human Ancestry, Homo erectus genetic material sequenced first time it, and more.
Ancient DNA & Human Ancestry Discoveries this week: Researchers have sequenced ancient proteins from the dental enamel of six 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossils from; and Analysis of nearly 5,000 ancient Eurasian genomes reveals that…
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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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Ancient Cultures, Gods, and Artifacts, Daunian kyathos 2 700-year-old, and more.
Ancient Cultures, Gods, and Artifacts this week: A Daunian kyathos, a 2,700-year-old ceramic cup or ladle from pre-Roman southern Italy, features a distinctive; and The Cleveland Museum of Art holds a 1.