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Stolen Khmer artifacts from ancient Cambodian temples should be returned now. This is what Cambodian heritage authorities have told London’s Victoria & Albert and British Museum who currently profit from scores Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 4 minuti I ricercatori dell’Accademia polacca delle Scienze hanno scoperto che gli esseri umani hanno domesticato bovini già circa 10.000 anni fa nella regione del Nilo centrale, nell’odierno Sudan. Le conclusioni preliminari degli archeologi, recentemente tornati dagli scavi, confutano il pensiero tradizionale secondo cui i …

What do we know about the Denisovans? In 2010, it became known that paleogeneticists had read the ancient genome of an individual from Denisova Cave, which turned out to be different from both modern anatomical humans (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthals (H. neanderthalensis). Scientists made this discovery by examining the nail …

WARSAW, POLAND—Live Science reports that a 4,300-year-old tomb has been found in the Saqqara necropolis next to the Step Pyramid of Djoser, Egypt’s first pyramid, which had been built about 400 years earlier. Hieroglyphs on the tomb indicate that Mehtjetju, the high-status official buried there, served as inspector of the …

Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite Mountains, Laos. The close morphological affinities with the Xiahe specimen from China indicate that the specimen belongs to the same taxon and most likely represents …

​Archaeologists excavating an ancient cemetery in Israel have uncovered an idol which they believe dates the worship of the goddess Asherah back an incredible 7,500 years. Read more Section:  Artifacts Other Artifacts News History & Archaeology Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

Philosopher’s Introduction Nietzsche is one of the most well-known figures in the history of the world, being a German philosopher, essayist, and cultural critic. Living from 1844 to 1900, Nietzsche’s theory left a mark by writing and analyzing the world of truth, and his quotes for morality, language, aesthetics, cultural …

CAIRO, EGYPT—According to an Ahram Online report, Egyptian and German archaeologists have cleaned the walls and ceilings of Luxor’s Temple of Esna from dust, salts, and bird droppings, revealing images of 46 birds arranged in two rows. Mostafa Waziri of the Supreme Council of Antiquities said that it is the …

A joint German-Egyptian archaeological mission, who’ve been working at Egypt’s Esna temple since 2020, have succeeded in uncovering patterns, pictures, and colors from the ceilings and walls of the temple.  Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Africa Read Later  Source: Ancient Origins

Per leggere questo articolo occorrono 3 minuti Una freccia dell’Età del Ferro conservata in modo spettacolare, completa di punta in ferro, dei sui cavi di avvolgimenti realizzati con tendini e penne aerodinamiche di piume, è nelle mani degli archeologi dei ghiacci norvegesi. È raro che l’impianto di penne della freccia …