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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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Old Oxen on the Table, Horse and Turtle at Feasts: 5,000 Bones From an Ancient Rubbish Heap Reveal the Menu of an Iron Age Elite in Spain

More than 5,000 animal bones from the rubbish heaps of a neighborhood in Salamanca, Spain, show how a wealthy extended family ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

In August AD 117, a ship carrying the Roman emperor put in at the coast of Cilicia, in what is now southern Turkey. Its most important passenger was too ill to travel any farther. Trajan had ruled for ...
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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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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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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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Bronze Age Archaeology

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in the southern Peloponnese, for three weeks, and they were tired. The floor ...
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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 ...
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Shine With No Stars at All — The Milky Way Began as a Swarm of Thousands of Tiny Galaxies

Long ago, the patch of sky that would become our galactic neighbourhood looked nothing like a galaxy. It was a collection of ...
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Scientists Disagree by 100,000 Years on When Humans Reached the Americas — Genetics Is Narrowing It Down to the Freezing Depths of the Last Ice Age

Proposed dates for the arrival of the first humans in the Americas span more than 100,000 years. At one end sits Cerutti, a site in California that Holen and colleagues dated to about 130,000 years ...
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A King Buried Under Four Swords: How Mycenaean Greece Turned Its Dead into Gold Sculptures

In late July 1926, the Swedish archaeologist Axel Persson and his team had been digging the beehive-shaped tomb at Dendra, in ...
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Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step

Dig a trench for a canal that will run 107 kilometres (66 miles) across northern France and you expect scraps: a stretch of ...