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- Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital
- This MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world
- Expansive New Kingdom tomb unveiled in Egypt’s Luxor
- Daily grind: The biography of a stone axe
- Rare Roman coins coming home to Warwickshire – where they were buried for 2,000 years
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian King Sargon II envisioned ancient city Karkemish as western Assyrian capital
In “A New Historical Inscription of Sargon II from Karkemish,” published in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Gianni Marchesi translates…
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Prehistory
Daily grind: The biography of a stone axe
Tom Breukel analysed some 250 stone axes from the Caribbean and reconstructed their biographies, thus increasing our knowledge of production…
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Prehistory
Prehistorical cave reveals diverse diet of early Guangdong people
Early dwellers of today’s Guangdong Province used to feast on an eclectic menu of birds and clams, with venison being…
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Asia
China confirms oldest tomb with “squatting” owner
Chinese archaeologists have identified a tomb within which a young woman has been squatting for 13,500 years.
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Human Evolution
‘Missing link’ in human history confirmed after long debate
Early humans were still swinging from trees two million years ago, scientists have said, after confirming a set of contentious…
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Biblical Archaeology
The hunt for ancient Dead Sea Scrolls is back on
In the cliffs high above the Dead Sea archaeologists chip away with pick axes, hoping to repeat one of the…
EGYPTOLOGY
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Americas
Depiction of mythical Aztec universe discovered in natural pond near Mexico’s Iztaccihuatl volcano
A team of archaeologists in Mexico have discovered a stone shrine in a pond that depicts the design of the…
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Asia
China confirms oldest tomb with “squatting” owner
Chinese archaeologists have identified a tomb within which a young woman has been squatting for 13,500 years.
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Europe
Ancient city in Crete sheds light on destruction of Minoan civilization
The University Catholique de Louvain from Belgium continued its excavations in the monumental building with a central courtyard on Kefalari…
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Oceania
Ancient Skull May Be History’s Earliest Known Tsunami Victim
In 1929, an Australian geologist named Paul S. Hossfeld was investigating the northern coast of Papua New Guinea for petroleum.…