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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 -...

Photo worth seeing: Grave recycling in late antiquity

An archaeologist shows that the destruction of late antique monuments was not...

Why the Mars Mole Failed

NASA's Mars InSight probe on the surface of Mars (illustration). Their thermal probe HP3 has now provided new insights into the Martian subsurface near...

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