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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment
During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...
Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...
The remains of a previously unknown early medieval settlement have been unearthed during works ahead of an offshore wind farm ...
On a crisp October morning, a small group of Brandeis archaeology students hover above a mysterious wooden shipwreck. Its age and provenance are unknown—but as the group sifts through the fine sand at ...
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Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. (©ULAS). A second-century Roman coin from Ilium in Turkey, labelled ‘Hector’, is an earlier example of the same ...
Archaeologists in Dublin have unearthed the charred fragments of a 2000-year-old fig, the earliest evidence of exotic fruits on the island and an indication of Ireland's participation in an ancient ...
A griot is a storyteller who preserves and passes down history in stories and poems and songs. They’re part of West African culture but the term itself has a bit of colonialist irony in its aura — one ...
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