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Humanity's oldest geometries, engraved on ostrich eggs 0 erronis 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 5 336
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America 16 Judi Lynn Sunday Tuesday 62 1739
(Archaeology with Flint Dibble): A New History of the Ancient Maya with Dr David Stuart 0 eShirl Tuesday Tuesday 5 241
Archaeologists Believed Every Statue on This Island Had Been Found, Until One Emerged from a Lakebed 1 Judi Lynn Monday Tuesday 14 540
18,000-Year-Old Evidence of Human Brain Consumption Found in Poland's Maszycka Cave 7 Judi Lynn Sunday Monday 13 468
Archaeologists Launch 'Virtual Museum' To Ukraine's Ancient Heritage 2 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 10 307
1.77-Million-Year-Old Homo erectus Crania in China Challenge Long-Held Timelines of Human Dispersal 4 Judi Lynn Sunday Monday 13 341
Ancient Greece's Deadliest Secret: Did a Hallucinogenic Fungus Power the Eleusinian Mysteries? 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 32 810
Ancient Skies, Ancient Wisdom 2 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 13 344
How Sumerians in Mesopotamia Perfected Asphalt-Like Materials 4,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 6 279
Extraordinary Discovery at Ness of Brodgar, Scotland: New 3D Scans Could Rewrite Neolithic History 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 19 508
Championships Mark the Rebirth of a Dynamic Art Form 1 Judi Lynn Sunday Sunday 11 345
New Research Reveals How Londoners Used Death Data to Survive the Great Plague 4 Judi Lynn Saturday Sunday 15 419
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older--and not Denisovans 2 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 21 557
Mystery of Armenia's Giant 6,000-Year-old 'Dragon Stones' is Finally Solved 3 Judi Lynn Friday Saturday 27 710
In the 3rd century, the Vikings' ancestors in Norway may have ravaged the North Sea 0 Judi Lynn Saturday Saturday 23 677
ASI unearths around 4,000-year-old human settlement in Odisha 0 Judi Lynn Friday Friday 11 291
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 2 Judi Lynn Feb 17 Feb 17 55 1404
Only Humans Have Chins -- and They Emerged as an Evolutionary Accident 12 Judi Lynn Feb 17 Feb 17 19 889
At a 'Tea Party' With Scientists, This Ape Showed Some Imagination 2 Judi Lynn Feb 17 Feb 17 15 578
Book Review: How Sickness Has Transformed Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 389
Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 16 Feb 16 10 292
A Closer Look at King Tut's Footwear: The Pharaoh Was Buried With Over 80 Pairs of Sandals Made from Gold and Papyrus 10 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 16 8 577
Ancient Inuits Seafarers Conquered the High Arctic 4000 Years Ago and Built Villages There Their travels shape the ecosy 1 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 15 373
Ancient DNA reveals Europe's last hunter-gatherers survived until 2500 BCE 0 Judi Lynn Feb 16 Feb 16 9 397
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 1 Judi Lynn Feb 15 Feb 15 11 457
DNA Reveals the People Who Replaced Stonehenge's Builders Along With 90% of Britain's Population Came from a Dutch Swamp 3 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 15 9 479
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia 2 Judi Lynn Feb 14 Feb 15 14 498
Prehistoric discovery in Oregon cave older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history 10 Judi Lynn Feb 14 Feb 14 60 2174
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 3 Judi Lynn Feb 14 Feb 14 26 824

Anthropology Continued...

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Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say 1 Judi Lynn Feb 14 Feb 14 3 386
A 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites the story of ancient Egyptian tools 0 Judi Lynn Feb 14 Feb 14 10 372
Archaeologists find 10,000-year-old rock art site in Egypt's Sinai 0 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 6 403
Archaeologists Uncovered a Lost City Hidden Beneath the Desert for 1,200 Years 1 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 12 568
Cambridge students unearth Viking-era 'execution pit' 0 Judi Lynn Feb 13 Feb 13 7 474
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong 1 Eugene Feb 12 Feb 12 14 522
Oldest known sewn hide and other artifacts from Oregon caves shed light on early clothing in harsh climates 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 11 Feb 12 14 428
Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 9 498
These 500,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2 Feb 2 8 477
In 1940, A Dog Investigated A Hole In A Tree And Discovered A Vast Cave Filled With Ancient Human Artwork 5 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Jan 16 45 1564
Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art 2 Bayard Jan 11 Jan 12 11 787
Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient 'water cult', archaeologists say 4 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Jan 7 8 848
3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History 2 Gaugamela Dec 26 Dec 26 13 949
A Massive Stone Wall Built 7,000 Years Ago Was Found Intact Beneath the Sea Off the Coast of France 2 Judi Lynn Dec 25 Dec 25 31 1009
Step inside the lost Native American city that rivalled medieval London 2 Judi Lynn Dec 4 Dec 16 21 1082
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Dec 3 20 2629
"Seeking the Koko' Ta'ay"--Taiwan's Little People, Big Questions 1 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 5 691
A New Study Revealed the Secret Origin of One of America's Most Mysterious Monuments 0 Judi Lynn Dec 3 Dec 3 15 876
Study Finds Golden Retrievers and Humans Share Genes for Anxiety and Intelligence 4 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Dec 2 16 1043
Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes--Including One That's 5,200 Years Old 8 Judi Lynn Dec 1 Dec 2 27 1446
It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell 2 Judi Lynn Nov 30 Nov 30 19 964
Archaeologists Uncover Massive 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 14 1026
Archaeologists Reveal Ancient, Single-Log Boats Used to Navigate Prehistoric England 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 10 864
Aologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past 1 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 4 664
Native American city that rivalled medieval London 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 15 897
DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 3 635
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 29 Nov 29 5 636
Easter Island Statue Construction Wasn't a Top-Down Affair 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 918
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 38 1808
Massive prehistoric structure found near Stonehenge 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1020

Anthropology Continued...

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Neolithic 'amphitheater' uncovered at Karahantepe archaeological site 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 803
First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close 5 erronis Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 900
A Stunning Taş Tepeler Discovery: 12,000-Year-Old Human Faces Emerge from Sefertepe 0 eShirl Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 892
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest 1 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 871
Flint Dibble exposes Graham Hancock for the fraud he is. Once again.......lol 0 wolfie001 Nov 2025 Nov 2025 2 891
42,000-year-old Shell Jewellery Workshop Discovered - The Oldest in Western Europe 2 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Oct 2025 27 2863
How Did The World Get So Ugly? - The Cultural Tutor Sheehan Quirke 4 BootinUp Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1301
Time Team Classics: Beaker Settlement in Spain 1 eShirl Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 800
Archaeologists Unearth Rare 9,000-Year-Old Stone Age Hammer in Norway 1 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 1117
Early Humans Weren't Apex Predators After All. They Were Eaten by Leopards--A Lot. 16 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Oct 2025 25 3709
12,000-year-old rock art hints at the Arabian Desert's lush past 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 1189
Lakes in the Gobi Desert nurtured human life 8,000-years-ago 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 1019
Bird calls may speak to origins of human language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 837
The Ancestral People Behind Earth's Most Influential Language 0 Judi Lynn Oct 2025 Oct 2025 16 994
Science history: Rosetta stone is deciphered, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 9 1799
Study of 1m-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans 1 muriel_volestrangler Sep 2025 Sep 2025 17 2020
Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia 3 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 15 1294
Haniwa Dancers: 1,500-year-old ghostly figurines thought to hold the souls of the dead 1 Judi Lynn Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 1165
Drought uncovers 40 ancient tombs in Iraq 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 13 1144
Catalhoyuk Unearths New Secrets: Social Change and the "House of the Dead" in One of the World's Oldest Cities 0 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Aug 2025 9 1027
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