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Category: History News
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Recent Archaeological Finds and, ‘We kept finding large circular mass graves’ Sahara, and more.
Recent Archaeological Finds and Excavations this week: A remote-sensing survey in the Eastern Sahara has identified 260 previously unknown large, circular mass graves; and Excavations for a Czech high-speed rail line in the Haná River…
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Ancient DNA and Genetic Discoveries, Homo erectus genetic material, and more.
Ancient DNA and Genetic Discoveries this week: A team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has, for the first time, sequenced genetic material from Homo erectus; and A Livescience article details how genomic sequencing has become a…
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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…
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Roundup: Ancient Discoveries, Perfect fossils found in Australian rust, and more.
Scientists Signals this week: This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Scientists find perfect fossils; and This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal to track…
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Roundup: Ancient Discoveries, a sunken Silk Road city emerges, and more.
Archaeologists Signals this week: This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal to track: – Underwater archaeologists; and This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal to track…
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Roundup: Ancient Signals, Ancient DNA reveals hidden Neanderthal group frozen time, and more.
Ancient Signals this week: A study published in Current Biology analyzes mitochondrial DNA from eight Neanderthal teeth found in Stajnia Cave; and This matters for Ancient World because it gives a concrete current signal to track: #…