History & Archaeology

History & Archaeology

Old DNA reveals common history of sheep and humans

Vessel with two pockets from around 2600 to 2500 BC. © Norbert Shcimmel Trust, 1989/ Met Museum ...
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History & Archaeology

Royal Royal Royal Shake tracked down

Bayeux's wall carpet shows King Harold while riding to Bosham, where he visits the church and celebrates in a hall before leaving to France....
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History & Archaeology

Where Central Asia met Europe

A coat clasp in the style of the Central Asian Avars excavated in Mödling, Austria © MPI-EVA/ Benedict Seidl (benedicts.1995@gmail.com) ...
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History & Archaeology

Pre-human Australopithecus was still primarily a vegetarian

Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein and drawing of one of the molars analyzed for the study. © Bernhard Zipfel/University of the Witwatersrand; Dom Jack/Max Planck...
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History & Archaeology

Lithuanian-Polish royal crowns recovered

This 500-year-old crown had been hidden in the crypt of the Vilnius Cathedral since the beginning of the Second World War. Only now has...
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History & Archaeology

Tomb of a court physician to the pharaohs

View of one of the painted walls in the tomb of the royal personal physician Teti Neb Fu in Saqqara. © Egyptian Ministry of...
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History & Archaeology

Evidence of Moche sacrificial ritual found in Peru

Enclosure of the examined tombs in the “Huaca Cao Viejo” temple in Peru. © Jeffrey Quilter ...
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History & Archaeology

Did lead pollution cause Roman IQs to drop?

Longitudinal samples of ice cores analyzed for lead and other chemicals. © Jessi LeMay/DRI ...
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History & Archaeology

The syphilis pathogen comes from America

Skeletal element from the upper hip that contained an ancient syphilis-like pathogen genome. © Dario Ramirez ...
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History & Archaeology

Oldest Christian testimony north of the Alps

This inscription was hidden on a rolled silver foil in an amulet from the tomb of a man of Roman times. © Leibniz Institute...
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History & Archaeology

Early mixing of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals

This is what the early Europeans who roamed Thuringia and the Czech Republic around 45,000 years ago might have looked like. Researchers have now...
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History & Archaeology

Hunting equipment reveals weaponry from the Neolithic period

Three Neolithic arrows recovered from Los Murciélagos Cave: arrow shafts made from reeds and wood (top) and details of bound tendon fibers, feathers and...
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History & Archaeology

News about the production of the Nebra sky disk

The Nebra Sky Disk – a unique work of art from the early Bronze Age. © Juraj Lipták/State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology...
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History & Archaeology

Footprints provide evidence of co-existence of early hominins

This 3D reconstruction shows the 1.52 million year old footprint of a Paranthropus boisei amidst bird tracks and, at the top left, a crosswise...
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History & Archaeology

Was there a rock sanctuary in Athribis?

Access to the north tower of the temple pylon in Athribis, in which the archaeologists discovered a chamber and reliefs of gods in the...
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History & Archaeology

Archaeologists find oldest alphabetic characters

These characters, carved into a 4,400-year-old clay tablet, could be the oldest evidence of alphabetic writing. © Glenn Schwartz/Johns Hopkins University ...
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History & Archaeology

Bes vessels contained hallucinogenic drugs

Egyptian Bes vessel and its computer reconstruction. © Cassidy Delamarter Until now, archaeologists...
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History & Archaeology

Oldest depictions of net fishing in Europe

This slate slab from the Stone Age site of Gönnersdorf shows a fish trap. The fish was first engraved and then given a network...
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History & Archaeology

Pompeii dead: DNA reveals errors in previous attribution

Casts of people buried in Pompeii. © Archeological Park of Pompeii Around 2,000...
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History & Archaeology

How seals became the first writing

These Mesopotamian clay tablets bear symbols of the proto-cuneiform script, the preforms of which also appear as motifs on seal cylinders. © CDLI -...
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