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Sword From the Age of Ramesses II Pulled From an Italian Volcanic Lake Still Has a Sharp Edge

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp ...
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Roman Frescoes Found Beside the Spot Where Greeks Once Voted in Agrigento

More than 2,000 years ago, the hilltop where archaeologists are now digging in Sicily's Valley of the Temples was where the ...
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A Bronze Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria Has Been Found in Cleopatra’s Sunken Harbour

The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been gone for more than seven centuries. A series of earthquakes, including those of 1303 ...
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The Field That Was India Inside Bangladesh Inside India Inside Bangladesh — The World’s Only “Russian Doll” Territory Vanished in 2015

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world's political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch.
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Bronze Age Archaeology

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state ...
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Trajan Died in a Small Cilician Port in AD 117 — Archaeologists Are Now Mapping What’s Left

The so called cenotaph or temple of Trajan may be the place where his funeral pyre stood. Credit: Philipp Pilhofer / Wikimedia Commons A team from Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University spent two weeks ...
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The Center of the Milky Way Smells Like Rum and Tastes Like Raspberries, But There’s Also Other Smells, Not So Pleasant

Colour-composite image of the Galactic Centre and Sagittarius B2 as seen by the ATLASGAL survey. Credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASA / Wikimedia Commons A gas cloud some 26,000 light-years from Earth ...
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Musa, the Roman Slave Who Became a Parthian Queen May Have Been Augustus’s Spy

Sent east as a diplomatic gift by Augustus in 20 BC, a Roman slave named Musa became the favourite wife of the Parthian king and, years later, co-ruler alongside her son. Some suggest she went to ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

Some lakes give up shipwrecks, and Arendsee, in northern Germany, has already given up one. What archaeologists brought to light in 2026 is something else: wood carved by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers ...
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Iron Age Archaeology

Around 1880, men cutting peat at Dejbjerg, in western Jutland (Denmark), began pulling bronze pieces out of the bog that shone as if they were new. Some assumed it was gold. Others had a more ...
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Egypt’s Earliest Kings Were Buried Among Hundreds of Servants — Forensics Finally Finds Signs of Violent Deaths

Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first ...
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Nuragic Civilization

The archaeological survey work carried out in the area of Carrarzu Iddia, in the municipality of Bortigali in central-western Sardinia, has culminated in the discovery of a new Giants’ Tomb that until ...