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Last Great Cavalry Charge Wasn’t Led by Europeans — It Was Won by Indian Lancers in WWI

India calls it Haifa Day. The regiments that get the credit are the lancers of Jodhpur, Hyderabad and Mysore — cavalry units ...
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A Roman Bathhouse Was Secretly Turned Into a Wine and Olive Oil Factory in Late Antiquity at Antiochia ad Cragum

A modest Roman bathhouse on Turkey's southern coast spent its retirement very differently from how it began. Constructed in ...
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Archaeologists Just Found a New Piece of the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty — and It’s About Refugees

The newly identified fragment of the treaty of Kadesh. Credit: Turkish Ministry of Culture A newly identified clay fragment unearthed at Hattusa, the ancient capital of the Hittite Empire in central ...
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Why Doesn’t Gravity Explain Why You Can’t Be in Two Places at Once? A New Experiment Under 1,400 Meters of Rock Just Narrowed It Down

Scientists have spent sixty years arguing over why the quantum weirdness that lets atoms exist in two states at once disappears by the time you get to a cat, a coffee cup, or a person. A new ...
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Bronze Age Archaeology

In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where they died. That is one of the findings of a study in PLOS One by a team that ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

Finding fossils usually means months of fieldwork, a hammer, and a lot of patience. In Finnmark, Norway’s northernmost region, it took none of that. According to the University of Cambridge, a cluster ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

The team wasn’t even looking for a grave. Kjersti Væge, project director at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo, was overseeing a dig at Kongefaret 8, on the Svinesund plateau ...
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A 1,700-Year-Old Pyramid Found in the Egyptian Desert Held a Judge, a Greek Poem and a Coin of Constantine

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a Roman-period tomb whose architecture, according ...
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Archaeologists Just Found a Roman City With an Amphitheatre for 8,000 People in Austria — It Was Abandoned, and No One Knows Why

In the 1970s, the small settlement of Stein, in Lower Austria, came close to becoming the site of the country's second ...
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A Burned Iron Age Wall Under a Paris Hospital Could Be the Gaulish Lutetia Caesar Described

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what ...
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Bronze Age Greece Wasn’t Just Brides Moving Away: Men Migrated as Often as Women, and Up to One in Ten People Grew Up Somewhere Else

In each of the Bronze Age Greek communities analyzed, between 5% and 10% of the people buried had not grown up where they died. That is one of the findings of a study in PLOS One by a team that includ ...
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A 6,800-Year-Old European Village Had Almost No Rich or Poor — Here’s How Archaeologists Found Out

In the early 1980s, an American-Yugoslav team dug a trench roughly the size of a tennis court — 16 by 20 meters (52 by 66 feet) — into a low hill near the village of Opovo, in northern Serbia. Between ...