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An altar of fire and a 2,300-year-old chest found in Uzbekistan reopen the mystery of how the ancestors of the Zoroastrians buried their dead

The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a window ...
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A Rare Etruscan Cube-Shaped Tomb from the Era of Rome’s Last Kings, with a Corinthian Krater Filled with Burned Bones, Discovered in Pontecagnano

Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened again this year, and this time the find was unusual enough that archaeologists had ...
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The Diver Who Held Up a Cathedral With His Bare Hands — for Six Years, in Total Darkness

Winchester Cathedral covers roughly 53,800 square feet (about 5,000 square meters) of floor space, making it one of the largest cathedrals in Northern Europe. At 558 feet (170 meters) long, it's also ...
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Archaeologists Just Dug Beneath a Legendary Slavic Fortress in Germany — and Found a Settlement 5,000 Years Older

In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel ...
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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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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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Guillermo Carvajal

In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the Havel River curls around a low rise of land that locals call the Pilatsch. For ...
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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

Archaeologists analyzing wall fragments from a Roman villa in northern Italy have found something that shouldn't be there: grains of Egyptian blue, the oldest synthetic pigment ever made, mixed ...