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Guillermo Carvajal

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The floor ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers ...
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The Center of the Milky Way Smells Like Rum and Tastes Like Raspberries, But There’s Also Other Smells, Not So Pleasant

Colour-composite image of the Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 as seen by the ATLASGAL survey. Credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASA / Wikimedia Commons A gas cloud some 26,000 light-years from Earth ...
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Musa, the Roman Slave Who Became a Parthian Queen May Have Been Augustus’s Spy

Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
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Shine With No Stars at All — The Milky Way Began as a Swarm of Thousands of Tiny Galaxies

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of ...
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Scientists Disagree by 100,000 Years on When Humans Reached the Americas — Genetics Is Narrowing It Down to the Freezing Depths of the Last Ice Age

Proposed dates for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas span more than 100,000 years. At one end sits Cerutti, a site in California that Holen and colleagues dated to about 130,000 years ...
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Bronze Age Archaeology

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The floor ...
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Nuragic Civilization

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that until ...
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A King Buried Under Four Swords: How Mycenaean Greece Turned Its Dead into Gold Sculptures

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in ...
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Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...
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Rome Gave Up Its German Frontier in the 3rd Century. New Finds Suggest Someone Kept Using the Site

A few inches below the forest floor in the eastern Taunus hills lies a stretch of the Roman frontier that has barely been ...
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A “Hell Pig” Predator Lived in Spain 36 Million Years After the Dinosaurs — It Was Kin to Hippos and Whales

Around 30 million years ago, a heavily built animal prowled the area that is now Vallbona de les Monges, in Lleida province ...