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By Emma Rogers CMU might not offer an archeology degree, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be kept up to date on the latest finds! Back again in 2024, here’s a SciTech roundup of recent archeological ...

Maya civilization has once again amazed researchers with a groundbreaking archaeological revelation that challenges our ...

Archaeologists have long known about ancient urban sites in the Maya Lowlands of southern Mexico. But this discovery was somewhat unexpected. Luke Auld-Thomas, an archaeologist at Tulane University, ...

Scientists have made a new discovery about the origin of writing in Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, Azernews reports ...

Recent research conducted by the University of Florence, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...

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