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1,000 Years Ago There Were Tens of Thousands of Languages in the World, Today Only 7,500 Remain: This Is What Happened

Today, humans speak or use signs in approximately 7,500 different languages. However, this figure, impressive as it may seem, ...
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Elevated Roads That Seem to Lead Nowhere Found in an Iron Age Fort in Western England

A team of archaeologists and students from the University of Birmingham has begun the first excavation work at the site known ...
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Moskstraumen, the Norwegian whirlpool that looks so much like Charybdis from the Odyssey that some theories say they are the same

Between the islands of Moskenesøya and Mosken, in the Norwegian archipelago of the Lofoten, the waters do something that ...
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The Mystery of the Baboon and the Ibis: Moonlight Reveals Why the Ancient Egyptians Deified Two Such Different Animals

A study published in the journal Time and Mind has brought back to the scientific forefront a question that for decades has ...
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A New Forensic Approach to the Shroud of Turin: Science Reveals Biological Clues Without Dating Its Origin

The Shroud of Turin, one of the most studied and controversial relics of Christianity, has been subjected to a new scientific scrutiny that, without resolving the debate on its chronology or ...
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Findings at the Capo Mulini Shipwreck, Sunk in the Late 2nd Century BC, Rewrite the Map of Republican Sicily’s Trade Routes

The waters of the maritime stretch between Acireale and Aci Castello, on the eastern coast of Sicily, have revealed a new chapter in the seafaring history of the Mediterranean. The conclusion of the ...
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Two Possible Ancient Dams Discovered in Egypt Near the Red Pyramid of Dahshur That May Have Been Used for Its Construction

French and Egyptian researchers have presented the first solid evidence that two huge linear structures located southwest of ...
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Findings at the Iberian Site of the Assut de Tivenys Point to an Origin Prior to the 3rd Century BC and Reveal a Seal and a Fibula of Sertorian Soldiers

The excavations carried out this summer at the Iberian settlement of L’Assut, located in a strategic spot along the course of ...
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Two babies were buried in an ancient Roman latrine at the sanctuary of Artemis in Ephesus in the 8th century, centuries after the building’s abandonment

The discovery occurred in the least expected place. During excavations at the Odeon of Ephesus, a building dedicated to ...
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The Statue of a Bacchante Found in Tusculum May Have Belonged to Cicero and is the First Discovered Work of the Famous Sculptor Evandros

A team of archaeologists from the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC) has unearthed in the ancient ...
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Thrace’s First Farmers: The Settlement of Paradimi Is Older Than Previously Believed and Had a Double Defensive System

The mound of Paradimi, located about six kilometers southwest of the city of Komotini on the plain of Greek Thrace, has been the focus of an ambitious investigation that has transformed what was known ...
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Tomb with 560 Ushabti Figurines, Rhodian Pottery, and Osirian Burials Discovered in Egypt

The Egyptian archaeological mission under the Supreme Council of Antiquities, conducting excavation work at the necropolis of ...