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Unique Discovery at the Iberian Oppidum of Cerro de las Cabezas: Two Executed Men Deposited Alongside Six Deer Antlers in a “Bad Death” Ritual

The archaeological site of Cerro de las Cabezas, an important Iberian oppidum located in the municipality of Valdepeñas ...
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The First Scientist to Describe a Dinosaur Bone Mistook It for a Giant’s Scrotum

Elias Ashmole was a 17th-century scholar who, besides founding Oxford’s Philosophical Society and London’s Royal Society, ...
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Bahariya Oasis was sacred 800 years before its temple, and Romans used it for wine and oil, archaeologists find

Archaeologists unearth structures belonging to the temple of Qasr El-Qadim, located in the village of the same name within the Bahariya Oasis, whose chronology dates back to the 26th Dynasty of ...
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Archaeologists Discover the Last Greek Colony in Sicily Was Suddenly Abandoned, Allowing the Preservation of Its Urban Structures

The Finziade Project, which combines archaeological research and citizen participation, has doubled the visitable area of the site and has allowed the recovery of a dwelling with cultic functions that ...
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Exceptional Roman Lime Kiln Found in Hungary Built Using the Natural Slope of a Hill

The expansion works of the M1 motorway, the main road corridor connecting Budapest with Vienna over 171 kilometers, have uncovered near the town of Bicske, located about 35 kilometers west of the ...
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Remains of a Large Hellenistic Temple Discovered in Northern Albania in an Ancient and Lost Illyrian City

A team of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw and the University of Tirana has documented, during the recently concluded excavation campaign, the remains of a monumental construction on the ...
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8,000 years ago, the last hunter-gatherers of northern Spain breastfed their children until the age of four and barely set foot on the coast

The last hunter-gatherers in Asturias rarely ventured to the coast, even though they lived just a few kilometers away. Credit: Guillermo Carvajal / labrujulaverde.com A study analyzes the dental ...
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Archaeologists decipher a Roman curse tablet with magical symbols found in ancient Coriovallum

Heerlen curse tablet with an ancient Greek invocation of deities and demons in the Egyptian style. Credit: Elke Fuchs, Institute for Papyrology, Heidelberg University The artifact, discovered in the ...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Quadrillions of Bacteria Could Have Reached a Moon of Jupiter from Earth in the Last 80 Million Years

This image shows a view of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter's ice-covered satellite, Europa, in approximate natural color. Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR / Wikimedia Commons In a fascinating twist for ...
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Fossil footprints found in Italy reveal the earliest evidence of when and where dinosaurs rose to dominate the planet

A study reviews the Lerici site and concludes that the first global radiation of sauropods occurred in the Carnian, earlier than previously thought. About 230 million years ago, during a geological ...
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A second sealed and intact Etruscan tomb discovered in San Giuliano just one year after the first find

The team of the San Giuliano Archaeological Research Project (SGARP), led by Professor Davide Zori of Baylor University, has opened a new Etruscan funerary chamber that remained completely sealed and ...
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Largest Roman Bath Complex in the Netherlands Found in Nijmegen

Excavation of the roman baths in Nijmegen. Credit: Gemeente Nijmegen / BAAC / RAAP Archaeological excavations carried out in the Dutch city of Nijmegen have revealed the remains of what is considered ...