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Oldest Roman Mithras Sanctuary in Bavaria Discovered in Regensburg, Rewriting Early Danube Frontier Cults

What began as a routine intervention, a preliminary procedure for urban development in the historic heart of Regensburg, has ...
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In 1917 the United States bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark and the treaty included a non-claim to Greenland

The persistent interest expressed by Donald Trump in incorporating Greenland into the United States is nothing new. Throughout history there have been several occasions on which the U.S. government ...
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A Dark Matter Core, Not a Black Hole, Could Govern the Heart of the Milky Way

The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...
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The Dark Iberian Ritual of Decapitated Heads: Practiced by More Peoples Than Previously Believed and Linked to the European Celtic World

A multidisciplinary study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has, for the first time with direct material evidence, ...
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Kapeleia, the taverns of ancient Greece frequented by men, women, and slaves

Imagine the bustle of a central street at dusk. The sound of conversation, the clinking of glasses, the smell of meat grilling. This is not a scene from a modern tavern in Plaka, but the image the ...
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An Italian engineer claims that the Great Pyramid of Khufu may be more than 20,000 years old, according to the controversial “Relative Erosion Method”

A preliminary study, based on a new method for dating ancient structures, suggests that the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Giza could be tens of thousands of years older than what traditional Egyptology ...
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An Unexpected Discovery beneath the Ishtar Temple in Assur Reveals the City’s Founding Date and Its Relationship with a Hurrian Goddess

View of the ruins of Assur, with the ziggurat in the background and the remains of walls and temples in the foreground. Credit: Fakhri Mahmood / Wikimedia Commons Investigations with coring samples ...
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A Phoenician scarab used as an amulet and seal is found in a Bronze Age Nuraghe in Sardinia

Ongoing excavation work at the nuragic complex of Ruinas, located in the rugged mountainous territory of the municipality of Arzana on the island of Sardinia, has yielded a discovery of a relevance ...
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Earth’s First Continents Emerged in an Inferno of Fire and Water, Making the Planet Habitable Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than the Fossil Record Indicates

A comprehensive examination of the oldest minerals on the planet, microscopic grains of zircon more resistant than diamond, ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, located on Golgotha, the place where according to the Gospels the Crucifixion, burial, and resurrection of Jesus took place, is one of the most important ...
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A genetic study reveals the millennial isolation of the Maniots, the Greeks who continued worshiping the Olympic gods until the 9th century

An international scientific team has unraveled the genetic profile of one of the most distinctive and isolated populations in ...
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Iron Age Archaeology

The team from the Research Group of History and Archaeology of the University of León (ULE) has concluded the excavation campaign carried out last August at the site of Peña del Castro, located in the ...