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Pompeii Relives Its Last Day: Discoveries in the House of Helle and Phrixus Reveal a Desperate Attempt at Survival
In a city doomed to eternity by the fury of Vesuvius, every stone, every crack, and every object tells a story. The most ...
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First Known Visual Representation of Our Galaxy Discovered in Egyptian Art
The fascination with figuring out the part that the Milky Way may have played in the culture and religion of ancient Egypt ...
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Identity of the Occupants of the Tomb of Persephone in Vergina Revealed: They Are Not Philip II and His Wife
An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...
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Evidence of Ancient Ritual to “Kill” the Dead and Destroy Their Tombs in a Final Feast 4,000 Years Ago Found in Crete
The archaeological site of Sissi, seen from the north. The white dotted line indicates the limits of the cemetery (Zones 1 & 9). Credit: N. Kress / Belgian School at Athens During the Bronze Age ...
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How the Mongols Conquered All of the Holy Land, Then Withdrew Without Fighting
In a recent article dedicated to the Ninth Crusade, we explained that the English prince and future king Edward I landed in Acre in the spring of 1271, ready to confront the Egyptian Mamluks under ...
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The Difference Between Terror and Horror in Film and Literature
The Headless Horseman Chasing Ichabod Crane, a play by John Quidor on Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In his work The Gothic, ...
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Secret Messages of Pharaoh Ramesses II Discovered on the Obelisk in Paris’s Place de la Concorde
French Egyptologist Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, a professor at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris, has discovered a series of hidden inscriptions on the obelisk ...
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The Papyrus Containing the Only Word Personally Written by Cleopatra Granted Tax Favors to an Influential Roman
The papyrus containing the only word written by Cleopatra herself that has survived to the present day. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ...
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The Exceptionally Well-Preserved Remains of a 5,000-Year-Old Woman from Caral’s Elite Found in Peru
The exceptionally preserved remains of a 5000-year-old woman from the Caral civilization. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Peru A team of archaeologists discovered the burial of a high-ranking woman at ...
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Oldest Bone Spear Tip in Europe was Made by Neanderthals
Four photographs of the tapered part of the specimen. White rectangles marked with numbers indicate: 1 – areas of red-brown coloration of the type caused by heat at the tip; 2 – location of the ...
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A “Bestiarius” in York: The First Archaeological Evidence of Combat Between a Gladiator and a Lion in Roman Times
Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome. This discovery, published in ...
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Dry storms triggered by changes in solar radiation caused massive wildfires 8,200 years ago that spurred the birth of agriculture
A study led by Professor Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sheds new light on one of humanity’s most significant turning points: the Neolithic Revolution. Published in the Journal of ...