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4,500 Years Before Nonstick Cookware, Bronze Age Syria Already Had Two Kinds of Pots and Seasoned Food With Resin

A team led by the National Museum of Denmark has worked out, for the first time, what people actually cooked in the pots of ...
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A Lake the Size of Connecticut Has Been Sealed Under Antarctic Ice Since Before Humans Existed

In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ice over ...
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DNA From Ancient Grape Seeds Shows Spain’s Wine Came From the Phoenicians, Not the Romans

One grape variety still grown in Spanish vineyards, hebén, has never gone out of cultivation for at least the last 1,100 ...
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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 ...