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Category: History News
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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 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 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 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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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 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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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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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…