Ancient Greece's cultural rise started a century earlier than previously thought—new research
While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...
Archaeologists excavate earliest known ancient Maya salt works
A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler has excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt ...
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New Study Reveals Ancient Greece’s Cultural Rise Began a Century Earlier
Research at the University of Warwick shows that the rise of civilization of ancient Greece began one century earlier than ...
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Site of ancient, key battle in Iraq found by archeologists using spy satellite images
The findings were published Tuesday in the journal Antiquity. While mapping the route ... The survey team also found pottery shards consistent with the time period when the battle took place. Jotheri ...
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Earliest ancient Maya salt works excavated
A team of archaeologists from LSU and the University of Texas at Tyler have excavated the earliest known ancient Maya salt works in southern Belize, as reported in the journal Antiquity. The team was ...
Skeleton found in Belgium cemetery came from 5 bodies — thousands of years apart
The burial is called a “composite inhumation,” a practice in which a group will build a skeleton for social purposes from the ...
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Ancient Airbnb: 150,000-year-old rock shelter used by Neanderthals, Denisovans, humans
Archaeologists in Tajikistan have discovered a rock-shelter that may have been a migration site for Neanderthals, Denisovans, ...
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LSU researchers excavate earliest ancient Maya salt works
As reported in Antiquity, the materials they found contrasted with those ... without the outside trade connections that ...
Q&A: Looking at ancient Roman plagues through an environmental lens
A pit of human bones, potential evidence of a catastrophic epidemic that struck Constantinople in 541 A.D. Sulfur deposits ...
Iraq: Spy satellite images lead archaeologists to historic site Battle of al-Qadisiyah, which helped Islam spread
Qadisiyah, the Arab army emerged victorious and continued its march into Persia, contributing to the spread of Islam beyond ...
Declassified US Spy Satellite Images Reveal Ancient Battle Site
As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...
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Valeriana: Everything We Know About Mexican 'Lost City'
An analysis of data covering an understudied area has revealed thousands of previously unknown Maya structures.