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The Mysterious Byzantine Bucket Found at Sutton Hoo Contains the Remains of an Anglo-Saxon Who May Have Served in the Imperial Army
In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...
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Small ceramic granaries with millet were sealed in Han tombs 2,200 years ago—now researchers are analyzing them
Many thousands of years before rice or wheat became the main crops in East Asia, millet was the staple grain that sustained ...
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Interpretatio Graeca, the way the Greeks identified the gods of other religions with their own
It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...
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Mysterious Large Fire Pits Studied in the Great Ceremonial City Believed to Be the Place of Origin of Aztecs
La Quemada is the archaeological site of an ancient city located in the state of Zacatecas in central present-day Mexico, which, unlike other great cities such as Teotihuacan, was built on the slopes ...
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Archaeopteryx, the Fossil That Explains Why All Birds Are Dinosaurs and Can Fly
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds, including modern ones, are dinosaurs. Although the first fossil of this ...
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Small objects from 3300 years ago had only been found in the wreck of the Uluburun, now also in a tomb in Cyprus
Chamber Tombs VV, XX, YY, ZZ, and AB East and West during excavation, the artifacts are in the circle. Credit: Peter M. Fischer and Rainer Feldbacher / Lucia Avial Chicharro Archaeologists found five ...
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The longest prehistoric journey undertaken by humans lasted thousands of years and spanned several generations
The greatest journey in human history was not made in a row, or perhaps it was. Credit: Google Gemini / labrujulaverde.com An international team of scientists has managed to reconstruct the longest ...
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The Great Fear: The Collective Panic Over Starvation That Sparked the French Revolution
On August 4, 1789, the National Constituent Assembly of France decreed the equality before the law of all French citizens and officially abolished feudal privileges. By the end of that same month, it ...
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Dark matter, the enigmatic force that shapes the universe, is born from particles that condense like steam into water
A team of researchers from Dartmouth College has proposed a new hypothesis that could verifiably explain the central enigma of cosmology: What is the dark matter that makes up 85 percent of our ...
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30 Vessels from the Urnfield Culture Discovered Beneath a Road in Germany
One of the urns found. Credit: Archäologisches Museum Hamburg (AMH) Archaeological excavations carried out during the construction of a drainage channel on the K17 road connecting the towns of ...
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Over 300 Solar Systems Are Forming in the Center of the Milky Way, Scientists Discover
Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...
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Fragments of a large relief showing King Ashurbanipal with Assyrian gods, found in ancient Nineveh
The ancient city of Nineveh, whose ruins lie on the eastern side of the Tigris River within the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, is considered one of the most important archaeological sites in northern ...