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Ancient Sculptures Recovered From Sunken City Off Alexandria
Statues including an intact sphinx and a Ptolemaic figure were hoisted out of the water on the Egyptian coast.
Archaeology
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Archaeologists Uncover “Extraordinary” 3,000-Year-Old Mural in Peru
Researchers are now urging local authorities to protect the site of Huaca Yolanda, which they say faces urgent preservation threats.
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Ancient Egyptian Coffin Paintings Suggest Awareness of Milky Way
Representations of the Egyptian sky goddess Nut on 3,000-year-old coffins shows evidence of the galaxy being accurately represented.
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Archaeologists Reconstruct Ancient Roman “Jigsaw Puzzle”
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
Book Review
Why Are We Still Obsessed With Pompeii?
In The Buried City, the director of the archaeological park brings a more humane and soulful version of the site to life.
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Archaeologists Discover New Style of Ancient Aboriginal Rock Art
In a recent study, the researchers theorized that Linear Naturalistic Figures found in western Australia reveal the ancient kinship between animals and humans.
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Research Shows How Mount Vesuvius Turned Man’s Brain Into Glass
A glass sample collected from the skull of a young adult victim of the eruption in Herculaneum yielded evidence of human brain matter.
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Stunning Frescoes of Dionysian Cult Rituals Unearthed in Pompeii
Spanning three walls of a recently excavated banquet hall, the murals shed light on ancient customs associated with the god of wine, festivities, and ecstasy.
Art
Uncovered Medieval Tattoos Flesh Out a Misunderstood Practice
Archaeologists discovered the second known example of Medieval Nubian tattoos in Sudan, bringing us closer to unraveling the art form’s longer history.
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Alphabets Might Be 500 Years Older Than We Thought
Archaeologist Glenn Schwartz unearthed four ancient clay fragments in northern Syria bearing inscriptions that may be the earliest known alphabetic writings.
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Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb Yields Trove of Ancient Artifacts
The findings include hundreds of ancient coins portraying the queen of Egypt, a marble statue, and ceremonial vessels.
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Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb Yields Trove of Ancient Artifacts
The findings include hundreds of ancient coins portraying the queen of Egypt, a marble statue, and ceremonial vessels.