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Archaeologists Unearth 1,600-Year-Old Jewish Ritual Bath—the Oldest Ever Found in Europe
Located in Ostia Antica, the mikvah dates to the late fourth or early fifth century C.E. Researchers say it's the earliest ...
Scientific American19h
Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa
Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...
Archaeologists Found a 5,000-Year-Old Fortress That Nature Had Hidden for Centuries
The settlement roughly dates back to the transition from the Neolithic period to the Bronze Age. Researchers used noninvasive ...
Greek Reporter1d
Mass Graves from the Greek Civil War Discovered in Thessaloniki
Two mass graves containing the remains of executed individuals from the Greek Civil War have been discovered in Thessaloniki.
Medieval mummy found in accused smuggler’s home
Niğde governor Cahit Celik praised the mummy’s recovery in a statement given to local Turkish news outlets while thanking ...
‘Unique’ jade-like pendant — 7,600 years old — discovered in Serbia. See the jewelry
More than 7,000 years ago, the Vardar-Morava River corridor led early farmers from the far reaches of modern-day Serbia into ...
The torso of a Buddha statue has been found at Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex
Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso ...
Teeth from a 2100-year-old burial pit in Mongolia tell a tale of soldiers far from home
Research led by Jilin University, China, is providing bioarchaeological evidence on a mass grave at the Bayanbulag site in ...
Archaeologists uncover the oldest known partial face fossil of a human ancestor in western Europe
Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Archaeologists Unearth 1,300-Year-Old Flush Toilets at a Palace Complex in South Korea
One of the toilets, likely used by the crown prince and his court ladies, may have drained directly into a nearby river ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)2d
Archaeologists discover oldest known partial face fossil of human ancestor in western Europe
Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...
Lost for 13,000 Years, Scientists Have Finally Decoded This Ancient 3D Map
Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone megaclast in the ...