1,200-year-old gold hoard discovered in Saudi Arabia may have been buried by a medieval pilgrim
Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have actually uncovered a clay pot loaded with gold, silver and gemstone-encrusted fashion jewelry that might have been buried by an Islamic pilgrim en path to…
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800-year-old ‘hugging skeletons’ are genetically confirmed as Poland’s only medieval same-sex double burial
The “hugging skeletons” in Opole, Poland, throughout excavation (top) and an unassociated burial (bottom). (Image credit: Magdalena Przysiężna-Pizarska) About 800 years back, 2 individuals were buried in an accept in…
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950-year-old burial of a pet dingo is first clear archaeological evidence of humans ritually ‘feeding’ a grave anywhere in the world
A 950-year-old dingo burial in Australia has actually produced the very first clear historical proof of human beings ritually “feeding” a severe throughout the world, a brand-new research study reports….
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8-year-old African American boy from Colonial Maryland found buried with white Colonists, and it’s unclear if he was enslaved
A composite picture of Anne Wolseley Calvert, whose skeletal remains excavated from a 17th-century cemetery have actually been superimposed onto a picture of what she might have appeared like in…
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland — and it likely held a fake tooth
A guy’s lower jaw recuperated from a middle ages church in Aberdeen exposes the earliest recognized usage of an oral bridge in Scotland, a brand-new research study discovers. The gold…
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1,900-year-old souvenir cup featuring Hadrian’s Wall and Roman forts discovered in Spain
The Berlanga Cup was discovered in 4 pieces. (Image credit: Roberto De Pablo) An opportunity discovery of a damaged bronze cup in Spain has actually exposed a 1,900-year-old representation of…
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Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual
The altar to Sol was pierced from behind so that light might shine through. (Image credit: © National Museums Scotland) FAST FACTS Call: Altar to Sol What it is: A…
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780,000-Year-Old Charcoal Reveals How Early Humans Mastered Fire
Hominins at the Acheulian website of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel count on driftwood collected along a lakeshore to sustain their hearths, according to brand-new research study led by archaeologists…
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1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead
A close-up of the skeleton reveals a nail put on top of the chest(simply left of the spinal column ). (Image credit: Special Superintendency of Rome)Little iron nails laid throughout…
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2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but ‘how it got there will always be a mystery’
Kat Baxter, Leeds Museum and Galleries’ manager of archaeology and numismatics, reveals the front of the ancient coin. (Image credit: Leeds City Council) An interesting coin transferred into a bus…
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