Hehe royal history ... and southwards into Bantu-speaking Africa to make one pause before tolerantly dismissing the notion. And, of course, we still know very little of this “Birmingham of ancient ...
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Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...
On a lakeside peninsula in Eastern Africa, archaeologists have found clues about a society that lived there over 3 million years ago.
Explore the fascinating history of New Year’s resolutions, from ancient Babylonian traditions to modern-day practices.
British archaeologist Howard Carter and his team of excavators opened the doors to the sarcophagus of the ruler itself.
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Alcohol distilled in a replica of a disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old bronze vat may help rewrite China’s drinking history.
Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...
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The Natufian culture, a bridge between the Paleolithic and Neolithic, marks early settlement, farming, and symbolic art in the Levant.