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Remains of “love flower” seeds—a plant that today survives only in a remote corner of Ankara—have been discovered inside a 4,000-year-old Hittite vessel

The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara's Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of ...
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Near Where Emperor Diocletian Was Said to Be Born Archaeologists Find a Body Buried Face-Down — A Fate Usually Reserved for Outcasts

The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outskirts of ...
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A Roman Villa Mixed the Pharaohs’ Most Expensive Pigment Into Its Plaster Like Cheap Filler

Egyptian blue predates the pyramids' final form. Egyptian artisans were producing it before 3100 BCE, making it, as far as ...
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Scientists Just Watched an Adult T. Rex Walk — 66.5 Million Years Later

Before 2025, paleontologists had confirmed exactly two footprints anywhere in the world made by an adult Tyrannosaurus rex — one in New Mexico, one in Montana. Isolated prints, each capturing a single ...
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A Judge Who Worked 150 Years After the Great Pyramid Just Had His Tomb Opened — and the Paint Is Still Wet-Looking

An archaeologist mapped the spot in the 1800s and moved on. A century and a half later, a Spanish-Egyptian team finally dug there — and found a judge's tomb with its paint still on the walls. When the ...
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An Egyptian Papyrus from 2000 Years Ago Reveals How Much the Roman Poet Who Inspired Karl Marx Copied Greece

A papyrus that had gone unexamined for decades in a Cairo archive has made it possible to demonstrate, for the first time with solid textual evidence, to what extent the Roman poet Lucretius copied a ...
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No, It’s Not Pompeii: This Roman City on the Black Sea Just Revealed a 105-Square-Meter Mosaic

The mosaic discovered in Pompeiopolis. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism For centuries, Pompeiopolis served as the capital of Paphlagonia, the Roman province covering much of Anatolia’s ...
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Wildfires May Have Taught Humans to Make Pottery

Late Neolithic activity at Sha'ar Hagolan, in the central Jordan Valley. The Neolithic settlement was built on top of the redeposited upper sediments. Credit: Garfinkel et al. 2006 The research, ...
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Spain’s ‘Iberian Pompeii’ Just Unearthed a Face-Smashed Statue Older Than the Roman Empire

The moment of the extraction of the head. Credit: Proyecto Libisosa / Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deportes de Castilla-La Mancha The face is gone. Not chipped or worn away by time, but struck — ...
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Archaeologists discover that ancient ports were much larger than we imagined: Roman ships did not only dock at the piers

Researchers from the University of Haifa and the Paul Valery University of Montpellier demonstrate that outer anchorage areas were decisive in maritime traffic in Antiquity, which forces a rewriting ...
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Cantabrian Labarum, the military standard that the Romans knew as “cantabrum”

Flag with the Cantabrian Labarum at the Torrelavega Town Hall. Credit: Zarateman / Wikimedia Commons However, when we add the adjective Cantabrian to the term labarum, the matter takes on another ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

A team from the University of York and Curtin University, in Australia, has settled one of the most persistent puzzles in British archaeology: the exact origin of the towering standing stones known as ...