Ancient Civilizations News
April 25, 2024
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Apr. 19, 2024 The Dura-Europos site in modern-day Syria is famous for its exceptional state of preservation. Like Pompeii, this ancient city has yielded many great discoveries, and serves as a window into the ...
Apr. 17, 2024 New research has highlighted an area in Arabia that once acted as a key point for cultural exchanges and trades amongst ancient people -- and it all took place in vast caves and lava tubes that have remained largely untapped reservoirs of ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Astrophysicists shed light on the relationship between the Milky Way and the Egyptian sky-goddess Nut. The paper draws on ancient Egyptian texts and simulations to argue that the Milky Way might have shone a spotlight, as it were, on Nut's role as ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Byzantine bullion fueled Europe's revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne's Francia a century later, new tests reveal. The findings could transform our understanding of ...
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Apr. 2, 2024 An international team of scholars present the earliest clear archaeological and biomolecular evidence for the raising of chickens for egg production, based on material from 12 archaeological sites ...
Mar. 28, 2024 What did an ancient Chinese emperor from 1,500 years ago look like? A team of researchers reconstructed the face of Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou using DNA extracted from his remains. The study ...
Mar. 20, 2024 A new study has challenged previously held views that brain preservation in the archaeological record is extremely rare. The team compiled a new ...
Mar. 25, 2024 A new study combining genetic, palaeoecological, and archaeological evidence has unveiled the Persian Plateau as a pivotal geographic location ...
Mar. 7, 2024 Archaeologists rediscovers 46 sites at the Eastern Sovereign Base Area at Dhekelia, Cyprus. Archaeologists located sites from archive records, a number of which were thought to have been 'lost.' They ...
Feb. 26, 2024 While many aspects of Philistine culture are well-documented, the specifics of Philistine religious practices and deities have long remained shrouded ...
Feb. 20, 2024 By analysing ancient DNA, an international team of researchers have uncovered cases of chromosomal disorders, including what could be the first case of Edwards syndrome ever identified from ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Located at the Callacpuma archaeological site in the Cajamarca Basin of northern Peru, the plaza is built with large, vertically placed megalithic stones -- a construction method previously unseen in ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Some people from an ancient community in what is now northern Italy were interred with animals and animal parts from species such as dogs, horses and pigs. The reasons remain mysterious, but might ...
Feb. 6, 2024 A mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture characterizes the Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha in northwestern Thailand. Between 2,300 and 1,000 years ago, individuals were buried in large wooden ...
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Feb. 2, 2024 Using advanced geospatial modeling to compare environmental and archaeological evidence, researchers found evidence that connects ancient mobility and subsistence strategies to cultural connections ...
Jan. 31, 2024 Did the ancient Greeks and Romans experience Alzheimer's? Medical texts from 2,500 years ago rarely mention severe memory loss, suggesting today's widespread dementia stems from modern ...
Jan. 24, 2024 DNA from ancient feces can offer archaeologists new clues about the life and health of Japanese people who lived thousands of years ago, according to a new ...
Jan. 18, 2024 For almost 200 years, archaeologists have been puzzled by a mysterious brown stain on the ancient Greek Parthenon temple in Greece. Now, researchers have conducted new scientific analyses, and their ...
Jan. 15, 2024 New research has precisely dated some of the oldest fossils of complex multicellular life in the world, helping to track a pivotal moment in the history of Earth when the seas began teeming with new ...
Jan. 11, 2024 Researchers have developed a new technique to measure the number of chromosomes in ancient genomes more precisely, using it to identify the first prehistoric person with mosaic Turner syndrome ...
Jan. 10, 2024 The North Arabian Desert oases were inhabited by sedentary populations in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. A fortification enclosing the Khaybar Oasis -- one of the longest known going back to this ...
Jan. 5, 2024 Researchers have discovered an ancient Roman temple that adds significant insights into the social change from pagan gods to Christianity within the Roman ...
Dec. 18, 2023 Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new ...
Dec. 14, 2023 A new study of the remains of prehistoric and modern African antelopes found that AI technology accurately identified animals more than 90% of the time compared to humans, who had much lower accuracy ...
Dec. 13, 2023 And after nearly two years of fighting, war is destroying Ukraine’s cultural heritage on a scale not seen since World War II, according to new ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Recovered from looters, a new archaeological discovery from a cave in western Mongolia could change the story of the evolving relationship between humans and horses around the ...
Dec. 7, 2023 Despite the Roman Empire's extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region between 1 and 1000 CE found no genetic ...
Dec. 6, 2023 Baboons were raised in captivity before being mummified in Ancient Egyptian sites, according to a new ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Scientists should seek answers hidden in the dirt using proven and state-of-the-art archaeological science techniques to support new discoveries about human evolution following recent controversies ...
Nov. 16, 2023 New dates provide detailed insights into the timing of events in the ancient city of Gezer, according to a new ...
Nov. 6, 2023 The hunter-gatherers who settled on the banks of the Haine, a river in southern Belgium, 31,000 years ago were already using spearthrowers to hunt their game. The material found at the archaeological ...
Oct. 25, 2023 Human populations in Neolithic Europe fluctuated with changing climates, according to a new ...
Oct. 24, 2023 Primatologists are using genetic analysis to determine the geographic origin of ancient mummified baboons found in Egypt. The team finds evidence that the two legendary trading regions of Punt and ...
Sep. 21, 2023 Violence was a consistent part of life among ancient communities of hunter-gatherers, according to a new study that looked for signs of trauma on 10,000-year-old skeletal remains from burial sites in ...
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- Ancient DNA Reveals Diverse Community in 'Lost City of the Incas'
- Family Trees from the European Neolithic
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- Researchers Use 21st Century Methods to Record 2,000 Years of Ancient Graffiti in Egypt
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- Neolithic Ceramics Reveal Dairy Processing from Milk of Multiple Species
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- Steel Was Being Used in Europe 2900 Years Ago
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- Scientists Find Evidence for Food Insecurity Driving International Conflict Two Thousand Years Ago
- Greek Volcano Mystery: Archaeologist Narrows on Date of Thera Eruption
- The Anglo-Saxon Migration: New Insights from Genetics
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- The Southern Arc and Its Lively Genetic History
- DNA Analysis Shows Griffin Warrior Ruled His Greek Homeland
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- AI-Based Method for Dating Archeological Remains
- Analysis of Everyday Tools Challenges Long-Held Ideas About What Drove Major Changes in Ancient Greek Society