Study exposes the real “mummy’s curse” behind the trade in mummified remains
A new study from the University of Staffordshire has found health risks linked to online sales of mummified human as well as animal remains. Researchers reviewed 128 posts from social media, online stores, e-commerce sites, as well as auction houses...
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Early cereal grain growth was shaped by water, not early farming, study finds
Early Neolithic cereals grew larger in parts of southwest Asia because of wetter growing conditions, rather than human selection through tilling. A new study combines plant remains, carbon isotopes and weed evidence to trace how cereal domestication began in the southern Levant...
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Ancient copper bells reveal ritual sound among the Yampara during the Inca period
Six copper bells found at an ancient Yampara site in Bolivia formed part of a carefully arranged ritual offering. The bells came from Yoroma, a large settlement in the Oroncota Valley. During the Inca imperial expansion (CE 1300–1536), Yoroma served as an important Yampara center...
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Ancient Colombian farmers built a vast water system without central rulers
Thousands of years ago, communities in Colombia’s Caribbean lowlands built one of South America’s largest water systems. New research shows local groups likely worked together without a powerful ruler directing the work. The pre-Hispanic field systems of La Mojana covered more than 500,000 hectares...
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Lost letter from Pope links 1066 Norman Conquest to a wider Church conflict
The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 has long centered on a fight for the English crown. New research argues Rome also played a major part in the story...
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Shackled men in ancient Athens mass grave were locals, not foreign invaders, study reveals
The men buried in a mass grave near ancient Athens were likely victims of local political conflict, not foreign invaders. New research on their teeth shows most grew up in the same region where they later died. Archaeologists found the mass grave in 2016. It holds 79 adult men placed in three rows...
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Long-lost HMS Tiger wreck found after 118 years off England’s Isle of Wight
The wreck of Royal Navy warship HMS Tiger has been found in the English Channel, 118 years after a deadly collision sank the vessel off the Isle of Wight. A team of divers and maritime historians from ProjectXplore located the wreck after five years of research in historical archives...
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12,900-year-old Epipaleolithic site found at Koskarlı Cave in Turkey
Koskarlı Cave in Turkey has revealed an intact hunter-gatherer occupation dating to about 12,900 to 12,000 years ago. The find provides the first systematic evidence of Epipaleolithic occupation in the eastern Black Sea region...
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Ancient drainage network found beneath Roman theater in Catania, Italy
A new geophysical study has mapped parts of a buried water network beneath the Ancient Theatre of Catania. The research focused on the orchestra, the open performance area at the center of the theater. The study used Ground Penetrating Radar, or GPR, along with geological data from earlier boreholes...
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Roman-era building with colorful mosaics and frescoes found beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana
Archaeologists have uncovered an Imperial-era building with rich mosaics, frescoes, and marble decorations beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana. The find came during work to stabilize the park’s historic retaining wall...
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Rare 4,000-Year-Old ‘Enigmatic Tablet’ Found Intact at Lucone Bronze Age Village in Italy | ArkeonewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
1,600-Year-Old Early Christian Mosaics Discovered in Croatia with a ‘Great Sinners’ Inscription | ArkeonewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
6,000-year-old burial mound in Germany yields new clues to its lost central tomb
Archaeologists working at Kapellenberg near Hofheim am Taunus, Germany, have uncovered new evidence pointing to the central tomb of a massive burial mound built about 6,000 years ago. The latest excavation season has revealed part of what looks like a stone-lined burial structure...
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Older Bronze Age Burial Found Beneath Viking Ship Grave in Norway | ArkeonewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
What ancient sheep teeth reveal about life in a medieval Kazakhstan town
For people living along the Silk Road a thousand years ago, sheep were a steady source of food and income. A new study shows how one medieval town in present-day Kazakhstan kept its flocks healthy in a dry and demanding landscape...
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2,000-year-old Roman frontier road uncovered beneath route of Germany’s new A8 highway
Archaeologists working ahead of a new section of Germany’s A8 highway have uncovered part of one of the oldest Roman roads in Baden-Württemberg. The newly exposed stretch belongs to the Alblimes Road, a major route built nearly 2,000 years ago along Rome’s frontier in southwestern Germany...
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Could the Man Egypt Tried to Erase Be the Biblical Moses? | ArkeonewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Ice Age hunters targeted female woolly mammoths, ancient DNA study finds
For decades, archaeologists have argued over one question. Did huge piles of woolly mammoth bones build up through natural deaths, or did Ice Age people create them through hunting and butchering? A new DNA study points strongly toward human activity...
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Earliest known Mediterranean long-distance sea journeys continued for at least a millennium
Hunter-gatherers sailed across more than 100 kilometers of open Mediterranean Sea thousands of years before farming reached Europe, according to a new study. The findings challenge a long-held idea about the sea travel skills of Europe’s last hunter-gatherers...
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Norway's Oldest Pilgrim Island Just Gave Up Another Secret | ArkeonewsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
