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The Statue of a Bacchante Found in Tusculum May Have Belonged to Cicero and is the First Discovered Work of the Famous Sculptor Evandros

A team of archaeologists from the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome (EEHAR-CSIC) has unearthed in the ancient ...
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Roman camp with inscribed projectiles discovered, marking the exact site of the repression of the Cerretan revolt in 39 B.C.

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have documented at Collet de Jovell, within the municipality of ...
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Emerald Tablet, the enigmatic text that revealed the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone

Psychiatrist Carl Jung and historian George R. S. Mead studied the Emerald Tablet between the last quarter of the 19th ...
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Rare Statue Found in a Gallic Iron Age Settlement Where Unusual Amounts of Horse Meat Were Consumed

The excavations carried out at the residential site of Mettray Le Désert, located north of Tours, have provided new data on ...
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The Oldest Evidence of Ridden Horses in the Iberian Peninsula Found at a Bronze Age Site in Madrid

A skull with grooves in the nasal bone and isotope analyses reveal that 3,300 years ago horses were already used for riding and transporting goods in the center of the peninsula. A team of researchers ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

Almost two millennia ago, in the year 137 AD, Claudius Ptolemy included in his famous Almagest a list of the brightest stars in the sky. Among the thirteen that received the highest rating—magnitude 1 ...
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A New Forensic Approach to the Shroud of Turin: Science Reveals Biological Clues Without Dating Its Origin

The Shroud of Turin, one of the most studied and controversial relics of Christianity, has been subjected to a new scientific ...
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Findings at the Capo Mulini Shipwreck, Sunk in the Late 2nd Century BC, Rewrite the Map of Republican Sicily’s Trade Routes

The waters of the maritime stretch between Acireale and Aci Castello, on the eastern coast of Sicily, have revealed a new ...
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Ancient astronomers considered it one of the brightest stars in the sky, but it barely shines: researchers solve the mystery

Almost two millennia ago, in the year 137 AD, Claudius Ptolemy included in his famous Almagest a list of the brightest stars ...
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In the 3rd century BC Germanic peoples cooperated to build the great fortification of Wittekindsburg, now their homes have been found

The archaeological surveys carried out in the surroundings of the German city of Minden, in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, ...
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Three Tombs of Officials and Military Figures from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty Discovered at Saqqara, Including That of the “Great Merchant of the House of Ptah”

The Egyptian archaeological mission working in the Bubasteion necropolis, in the eastern sector of the escarpment at the ...
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Roman camp from the time of Marcus Aurelius and the Marcomannic Wars with strange legionary burials found in Slovakia

The extensive archaeological project linked to the future industrial park of Šurany, in southwestern Slovakia, has provided ...