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A Physician’s Case Found in Pompeii Among the Remains of a Victim of the A.D. 79 Eruption

Medical diagnostic techniques and restoration archaeology have made it possible to identify the profession of one of the victims of the eruption of Vesuvius, sixty years after the original excavation.
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Findings at the Castro de Hortas Confirm the Existence of a Significant Human Settlement in the Cíes Islands Prior to the Arrival of the Romans

Between the end of April and the beginning of May 2026, the Grupo de Estudos en Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio (GEAAT) of the University of Vigo carried out the second survey campaign at the ...
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A Mycenaean Palace and a Sanctuary Rewrite the History of the Lacedaemonians, and How the Spartans Joined Them

Imagine a fertile valley in the Peloponnese, crossed by the Eurotas river. There, more than 3,300 years ago, a Mycenaean ...
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Attius Clausus, the Sabine who emigrated to Rome with his family and his five thousand clients, changed his name and founded the gens Claudia

Appius, who had an impulsive character… » says Livy in the second book of his work Ab urbe condita (On the Founding of the ...
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Tomb of the Purification Priest of the Temple of Amun and 10 Other Figures, Whose Names and Roles Were Previously Unknown, Discovered in Luxor

The work of the Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga ...
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A new species of “hairy” ghost pipefish discovered in the southwestern Pacific that disguises itself as algae to hide

A team of Australian researchers has officially described a new species of ghost pipefish, characterized by its abundant “fur ...
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59,000 Years Ago, a Neanderthal Underwent a Dental Drilling to Cure an Infection, and then that Knowledge was Lost

A team of researchers has documented what is likely the oldest case of successful dental treatment in history of human ...
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Dust from a Remote Stellar Explosion Has Been Accumulating for Tens of Thousands of Years in Antarctic Ice as the Solar System Passes Through the Local Interstellar Cl…

Rossendorf (HZDR) has confirmed, through the analysis of Antarctic ice tens of thousands of years old, that the Solar System ...
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The Oldest Monumental Megalithic Necropolis of the Interior of the Iberian Peninsula, Dated to the 5th Millennium BC, Found in Toledo

Researchers from several Spanish universities and research centers, led by Rosa Barroso Bermejo (University of Alcalá), have ...
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A notebook from the 13th century still legible and pieces of silk used as toilet paper discovered in a latrine in Paderborn

During the archaeological work linked to the construction of the new administrative headquarters of the city of Paderborn in ...
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The Earth’s crust has broken and mantle fluids are reaching the surface: a new tectonic plate is forming beneath southern Africa

Scientists from the University of Oxford have published a study in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science showing that the ...