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The mystery of the prehistoric Nuraghi unveiled: a study reveals the engineering that keeps Sardinia’s millennia-old towers standing

In the unique landscape of Sardinia, dotting hills and valleys, rise mysterious stone constructions that have defied time and ...
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A unique Bronze Age community survived in a Calabrian massif devoted to herding and consuming milk and dairy products, despite being lactose intolerant

For the first time, a scientific team has succeeded in reconstructing the complete genetic and social profile of a ...
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The burial of Paganini, the violinist whose genius was attributed to a pact with the devil, was not authorized by the pope until 36 years after his death

With permission from masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Sarasate, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaÿe, and perhaps a more modern one—let’s say Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman—there is one musician who is ...
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Monumental Section of 2nd-Century BCE Hasmonean Wall that Was Deliberately Demolished Discovered in Jerusalem

Archaeological work carried out in preparation for the new wing of the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem has concluded with a major discovery: the full excavation of an impressive section of the city ...
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Underwater Discovery in Alexandria: The Remains of a Luxurious Ceremonial Boat from the Early Roman Period with Graffiti in Greek Emerge

In the depths of ancient Portus Magnus of Alexandria, in the port area of the Royal Island of Antirhodos, a team of underwater archaeologists has unearthed a structure whose timbers, preserved for ...
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This was the women-led society that lasted a thousand years, where “foreigners” could prosper and attain high social standing in Iberian Copper Age society

An international team of archaeologists, geneticists, and anthropologists has succeeded in tracing the most detailed portrait to date of a Copper Age society in Europe. The setting is the mega-site of ...
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Iron Age Archaeology

An archaeological intervention carried out by a mixed team from the National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) and the Archaeology Service of the Indre-et-Loire Department (Sadil ...
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Largest Dinosaur Tracksite in the Alps Discovered in Stelvio National Park: An Intact Late Triassic Landscape That Will Rewrite European Paleontology

A stretch several kilometers long of almost vertical dolomitic walls in Stelvio National Park preserves the trace of a ...
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Dzibanché was the capital of the Kaanu’l lineage of the Serpent Kings who dominated Maya politics for two centuries

The Archaeological Zone of Dzibanché, a vast complex of approximately 65 square kilometers located in southern Quintana Roo, ...
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Neolithic Dog Found Carefully Buried at the Bottom of an Ancient Swedish Lake with a Bone Dagger

In the lake sediments of the Logsjömossen wetland, on the outskirts of Järna southwest of Stockholm, a team of archaeologists ...
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A settlement built by the Legio XI Claudia Pia Fidelis and an amphora filled with “garum” from Hispania unearthed in Switzerland

Analysis of the clayey soil and pebbles extracted from a plot south of the Limmat River, in the canton of Aargau (Switzerland ...
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Harrying of the North: this was William the Conqueror’s brutal campaign of devastation to subdue northern England

Despite the fact that Duke William II of Normandy, popularly known as the Conqueror, invaded England in 1066, the northern ...