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Nothing Like This Has Ever Been Discovered Before”: In Petra, 12 Human Skeletons Unearthed Beneath a Mausoleum, the Largest Deposit Found in the City
The excavation, led by Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Research Center, took place beneath the ...
Greek Reporter1d
DNA Analysis Sheds Light on the Piceni: the Pre-Roman People of Italy
DNA analysis reveals the unique genetic story of the Piceni people, a mysterious civilization that thrived in Italy before ...
Archaeologists Dug Up a Royal Grave—and Found a Secret Chamber Hidden Inside
The Riedlingen chamber grave—likely completed around around 585 B.C.—has a completely preserved ceiling, walls, and floor all ...
Human burial practices had their origin in the Levant, Israeli researchers say
The burial practices of Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens originated in the Levant region around 120,000 years ago, ...
Science News22h
China’s famously rich dinosaur fossil beds get a new origins story
Cave-ins and floods may have buried the Cretaceous creatures of the fossil Jehol Biota rather than volcanic eruptions, a new study claims.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
Italian Police Arrest ‘Clumsy’ Tomb Raiders Who Allegedly Posted Stolen Etruscan Artifacts on Facebook
Officials claim the items once belonged to an influential Etruscan family that lived around the third century B.C.E. Reuters’ ...
Skeleton found in Belgium cemetery came from 5 bodies — thousands of years apart
The burial is called a “composite inhumation,” a practice in which a group will build a skeleton for social purposes from the ...
World’s oldest WRITING is found in ancient tomb & experts think it’s a prehistoric label…but what it says is a mystery
AN awe-inspiring discovery of the oldest known alphabet has been found in a tomb by a group of archaeologists. The ancient ...
Phys.org8d
Ancient skeletons reveal health differences in medieval London
Studying ancient skeletons can help create specific health measures for different populations in the past, according to a ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs20d
Skeleton made from bones of five people across 2,500 years found in Belgium
Associated artifacts and burial style initially suggested that ... someone decided to "complete" or "reassemble" the skeleton of an ancient inhabitant by adding a skull and artifacts from their ...