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In Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, a dig is shedding light on the routines of a community that lived about 3,500 years ago. The ...

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Meteorites provided a rare but ready source of iron for ancient Bronze Age cultures before smelting became common. A new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, sheds light on how ...

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The discovery at Koskarlı Cave offers archaeologists new clues about hunter-gatherers who occupied the eastern Black Sea ...

Two leg bones found on the seabed near Taiwan have been identified as Denisovans, and their size suggests these hominins ...

When archaeologists began excavating a large ancient settlement near Tel Aviv in 2012, among the many discoveries at the 9000-year-old site were as many as 400 locally crafted artifacts made from ...

Nabataeans established a mysterious, ancient kingdom and had a reputation for great accomplishments with links to Greece and ...

At gas wells tapping the Antrim Shale beneath much of the Great Lakes region, University of Michigan researchers analyzed ...

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A team of international scientists led by Dr. Ariel Malinsky-Buller, together with Ph.D. students David Nora, Ioannis Oikonomou and Dominik Rogall from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has ...