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It is not unknown for children to try to outdo their parents. When it comes…
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology – these days the Penn Museum…
The discovery of a two-million-year-old skull in South Africa is shedding important new light on…
A project looking at the history of crops in prehistoric China has identified differences in…
The remains of two individuals who died during the eruption of Vesuvius have been found…
An ongoing study in the Makran Sefidkuh region of Iran is shedding light on the…
A sub-adult burial dating to the early-mid Holocene, c.8000 BP, has been found in Makpan…
A geoglyph has been discovered on a hillside in the Nazca desert of Peru during…
Discovering a previously unsuspected Roman cemetery would normally rank as the archaeological highlight of a…
Sicily was famed in antiquity for its agricultural prosperity. An eloquent witness of its late…
A Viking ship burial has been discovered at the site of Gjellestad in south-eastern Norway.…
The Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha was obsessed with defending his ‘paradise on earth’. He feared…