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Roman Pozzolana Quarry Discovered in the Euganean Hills That Supplied Hydraulic Mortars to Cities in Northern Italy

For centuries, Roman architectural treatises —especially those written by Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder— have cemented in the ...
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Constantinos Phaulkon, the Greek Adventurer Who Became Prime Minister of Siam in the 17th Century

On June 18, 1686, an exotic entourage disembarked in Brest that caused a sensation among the local population, as would also ...
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In an Anglo-Saxon Tomb from 1,400 Years Ago, an Older Sister “Looks After” Her Younger Brother, Both Dead from a Contagious Disease

Analyses from the Francis Crick Institute reveal that a child and a teenage girl buried together in the 6th century were siblings and died almost at the same time from a fast-acting infectious disease ...
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Historians Reveal the Illuminati Didn’t Vanish in 1785—They Survived in Hiding in Thuringia

The Illuminati society has given rise to numerous conspiracy theories Credit: Guillermo Carvajal / labrujulaverde.com Two and a half centuries later, the focus of rigorous historical research on this ...
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A triple bone comb of the Late Roman Germanic elite and a necklace of 156 Baltic amber beads from the Bronze Age, discovered in Germany

The construction of a new wind farm in the vicinity of the German hamlets of Ahlum and Dettum, a project promoted by the company SAB WindTeam GmbH that includes the installation of nineteen wind ...
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The tomb of an Iron Age warrior in Italy contained a silver wire from the Iberian Peninsula and remains of a medicinal drink

A 2,750-year-old tomb reveals that communities in the interior of the Italian Peninsula maintained much more intense mobility and cultural exchange than previously believed, thanks to the analysis of ...
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4,000-Year-Old Cuneiform Tablets Suggest Gilgamesh May Have Really Existed, Researchers Say

More than a century after the National Museum of Denmark began to accumulate a vast collection of inscribed clay tablets from the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, a team of researchers ...
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Hunter-gatherers 800,000 years ago selected their settlements according to how much wood they could obtain effortlessly for fire

A general view of the excavation of Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov Acheulian site. (Note that the original occupation surfaces are tilted due to tectonics). Credit: GBY Expedition The assemblage of charcoals ...
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The first known dental filling made with gemstones in a molar by the Maya is discovered

External view of the molar. Occlusal surface with the jadeite stone view and buccal aspect view. Credit: E. Mata-Castillo et al. 2026 This is the first documented case of a gemstone inserted into a ...
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An expedition discovers an unknown and unmapped island in Antarctica that forces the updating of international navigation charts

The presence of a rocky formation previously unknown to nautical cartography has been confirmed by the scientific team aboard the icebreaker Polarstern, from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), in ...
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Neanderthal children hunted pond turtles in Central Europe 125,000 years ago, but not to eat them

This is what it might have looked like around 125,000 years ago: a European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis) next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). Credit: ...
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How Birdsong Gave Rise to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Phonetic Signs Emerged as Imitations of Animal Sounds

Professor Ludwig Morenz publishes a book in which he argues that some phonetic signs of Ancient Egypt emerged as imitations of animal sounds, and redefines the evolution of graphic systems as a ...