The discovery of the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II, the first royal burial chamber to be unearthed since King Tutankhamun’s tomb was found in 1922 by the UK archaeologist Howard Carter, was announced yesterday
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An ancient Mexican archaeological site, originally thought to be a fortress, is actually a sprawling and well-preserved 600-year-old city. Built by the Zapotecs, the true extent of Guiengola, located around 520km south-east of Mexico City, has
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Archaeologists have discovered part of an ancient Roman basilica under an office block in London. The 2,000-year-old ruins, once a public building where major political, economic and administrative decisions were made, were found underneath 85 Gracechurch
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Petroglyphs in Arizona dating back thousands of years will soon be digitised and reinterpreted with help from local Indigenous groups. At the Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve, a 47-acre site in Phoenix, around 1,500 symbols created between
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A recent study has pushed back the timeline for hominin presence in Eurasia to nearly 2 million years ago, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought. The discovery is based on cut-marked animal bones from the site
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Nature, Published online: 05 February 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00089-0 Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry,
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In November 1924 — on the day they were hosting a wedding at their Johannesburg home in South Africa — Australian anatomist and physician Raymond Dart and his wife Dora noticed two men staggering up the
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A haul of more than 270,000 beads has been recovered from a 4,800-year-old burial in southwestern Spain. The collection of beads ― the largest array of such ornaments ever found ― adorned the attire of the
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Colin Renfrew was regarded by many as the world’s pre-eminent living archaeologist. Inspired by the beauty inherent in past material expressions of the human condition, he became fascinated by the parallel lines he saw in understanding
Posted February 2, 2025 by inuno.ai
A massive volcanic eruption may have helped to set in motion the development of one of South America’s earliest complex societies. Experts have identified ashy layers at multiple Bolivian sites as tephra, a material produced by
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