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The Genetic Code Shared by All Living Beings Is the Result of the Survival of One Among Several Primitive Codes
In the vast history of Earth, billions of years ago, an arid landscape dominated by volcanoes and shallow pools may have ...
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An Exceptional Celtic Funerary Garden with 17 Graves and a Central Sepulcher Discovered in Endingen am Kaiserstuhl, Germany
In Endingen am Kaiserstuhl, during a rescue excavation, a surprising funerary garden from the early Celtic period containing ...
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A Silver Amulet Found in a 3rd-Century Roman Tomb Contains the Oldest Christian Inscription North of the Alps
In an unprecedented archaeological discovery, a small silver amulet measuring just 3.5 centimeters has revolutionized historical understanding of Christianity north of the Alps. This find, known as ...
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The Hjortspring Boat: The Celts Who Attacked a Danish Island in 350 BCE and Ended as a Votive Offering
The Hjortspring Boat was discovered in 1921 in the Hjortspring Bog on the island of Als, southern Denmark. It is considered ...
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Golden Tongues and Nails in Mummies from the Ptolemaic Period, Found by Archaeologists from the University of Barcelona in Egypt
The joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission has revealed a series of unique discoveries from the Ptolemaic period in ...
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Genome of the Oldest Modern Humans in Europe Reveals They Belonged to the Same Family and Had Dark Skin and Hair
An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has sequenced the oldest ...
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An Amphora Filled with Remains of Small Fish Found in the Excavations of the Ancient Greek City of Finziade in Sicily
The amphora discovered, filled with the remains of small fishes. Credit: Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi / Fiziade Project A fascinating archaeological discovery has come to ...
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The Bar Kokhba Revolt Against the Romans in 131 CE Was Initially Led by Jewish-Origin Legionaries
A recent study led by Haggai Olshanetsky, a researcher at the University of Warsaw, has changed the historical perception of the Bar Kokhba Revolt or Second Jewish Revolt (sometimes also called the ...
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14 Kilograms of Roman Chainmail Found Near the Fortress of Bonn in Germany Were Used to Repair Damaged Armor
Near the site of the ancient Roman legionary fortress in Bonn, Germany, archaeologists uncovered a 14-kilogram cache of chainmail, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD. The remnants of the armor were ...
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Homo sapiens Interbred with Neanderthals in Eurasia for 7,000 Years in a Genetic Exchange That Occurred 47 Millennia Ago
Research into ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human evolution, unraveling the intricate genetic ties between modern humans and their closest relatives, the Neanderthals. A recent ...
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Jeannette Rankin, the First Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress, Voted Against Entering Both World Wars
The National Statuary Hall is a semicircular room in the U.S. Capitol originally built to host sessions of the House of Representatives (the lower chamber of Congress) but repurposed in 1864 to house ...
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Philopoemen, the “Last of the Greeks”, Who Finally Ended Sparta’s Power
In the same year, 183 BCE, two great figures of ancient military history passed away. One was the Roman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus; the other, a Greek whose body was cremated in a ceremony of ...