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Archaeologists Dug Under an Ancient Greek City—and Found a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement
On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...
Archaeologists measure and compare size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality
In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...
Archaeologists discover historical link between inequality and sustainability
A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...
Archaeologists Excavating a Maya City Found a 1,700-Year-Old Altar. It Shouldn’t Have Been There.
Tikal is a 2,400-year-old Maya city in the heart of Guatemala—far flung from Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. The ...
Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools
A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...
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Archaeologists may have discovered the birthplace of Alexander the Great's grandmother
Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.
Unearthing the Apollo of the Latin Tombs
The long wavy locks were the first detail to break through the layers of earth and stones. The whiteness of those artfully ...
Archaeologists Make History with Discovery of Ancient Ivory Tools
Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...
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Archaeologists compared the size of 50,000 ancient houses to learn about history of inequality, they found that it's not inevitable
We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...
Archaeologists May Have Just Solved a Long-Standing Cave Art Mystery
A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...
Cave guide enters unknown passage for first time — and makes ancient discovery
Dimas once again guided the archaeologists into the cave and down into the hidden room, where the experts noticed the ...
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Archaeologists uncover settlement from golden age of ancient Egypt
A newly discovered settlement in the north-western Nile delta was built by the Egyptian New Kingdom perhaps 3500 years ago and included a temple dedicated to pharaoh Ramesses II ...