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A Roman Aqueduct Discovered in the Borsacchio Nature Reserve in Abruzzo, Central Italy
During modernization work on a gas pipeline near Cologna Spiaggia in the Borsacchio Nature Reserve, located in the Abruzzo ...
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The Hjortspring Boat: The Celts Who Attacked a Danish Island in 350 BCE and Ended as a Votive Offering
The Hjortspring Boat was discovered in 1921 in the Hjortspring Bog on the island of Als, southern Denmark. It is considered ...
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Golden Tongues and Nails in Mummies from the Ptolemaic Period, Found by Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona in Egypt
The joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has revealed a series of unique discoveries from the Ptolemaic period in ...
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Genome of the Oldest Modern Humans in Europe Reveals They Belonged to the Same Family and Had Dark Skin and Hair
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has sequenced the oldest ...
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The Victorious Battle of the Masts Against the Byzantines Was The First Major Naval Combat of Islam
When we think about the early conquests of Islam, we imagine vast numbers of warriors riding camels across deserts, waving ...
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An Ancient Floor Paved with Animal Bones Found in a Building in Alkmaar, Netherlands
In the historic center of Alkmaar in the Netherlands, a team of municipal archaeologists made an extraordinary discovery ...
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An Amphora Filled with Remains of Small Fish Found in the Excavations of the Ancient Greek City of Finziade in Sicily
The amphora discovered, filled with the remains of small fishes. Credit: Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi / Fiziade Project A fascinating archaeological discovery has come to ...
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The Bar Kokhba Revolt Against the Romans in 131 CE Was Initially Led by Jewish-Origin Legionaries
A recent study led by Haggai Olshanetsky, a researcher at the University of Warsaw, has changed the historical perception of the Bar Kokhba Revolt or Second Jewish Revolt (sometimes also called the ...
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Homo sapiens Interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia for 7,000 Years in a Genetic Exchange That Occurred 47 Millennia Ago
Research into ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human evolution, unraveling the intricate genetic ties between modern humans and their closest relatives, the Neanderthals. A recent ...
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Philopoemen, the “Last of the Greeks”, Who Finally Ended Sparta’s Power
In the same year, 183 BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the other, a Greek whose body was cremated in a ceremony of ...
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The Pyramids of Euseigne: A Unique Geological Phenomenon in the Swiss Alps
The Pyramids of Euseigne, located in the Hérens Valley, are a unique geological phenomenon and one of the main natural attractions in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. These formations, rising ...
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The Controversial Date of Pompeii’s Destruction: August 24th, as Pliny the Younger Wrote, Remains the Most Probable
In the vast network of historical and scientific debates, few enigmas have sparked as much fascination as the exact date of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the cities of Pompeii and ...