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On the dark, chilly bottom of the sea off the coast of Ramatuelle, France, early in March 2025, a French Navy drone swept the silt with its sonar beam — a form, large and out of context, 2.5 kms (1.59 ...
Darius von Guttner Sporzynski for The ConversationFor two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to the 14th ce ...
About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.
Before China's Neolithic Fujia community was arranging its deceased, it already possessed something unusual: a social structure organized not around fathers, but around mothers.Chinese researchers hav ...
Conor Trainor for The ConversationBefore artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural products, including honey or dried fruit.
At some point between stone crashing on stone and the murmur of words by a Paleolithic fire, something shifted.In a brand new study, a multidisciplinary group of researchers has mapped the deep prehis ...
“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans” (Iliad, Robert Fagles’ translation). So, Agamemnon snatches Briseis, the desirable war trophy of ...
Researchers have identified a shipwreck off Porkkala in the Gulf of Finland as the warship Falken. The 17th-century ship was built for King Gustav II Adolf and was later used under Queen Kristina.
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...
New archaeological research conducted at the legendary site of Agios Athanasios - Homer’s School - in northern Ithaca is shedding extraordinary new light on the island's prehistoric, Mycenaean, and He ...
Using state-of-the-art computer modeling and climate reconstructions, a team of anthropologists has unveiled the possible migratory highways used by Neanderthals to journey thousands of kilometers fro ...
At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...
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