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Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth 14 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 27 660

Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia 1 Judi Lynn 16 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 8 267

Ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs reemerge on Oahu's shores after years of being hidden 1 Judi Lynn 16 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 17 339

Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 2 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 47 1423

Before Rome, Before Greece: Anatolia's Oldest Glass Revealed in Hittite Bklkale 1 Judi Lynn 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 11 309

12,000-Year-Old Grid-Plan Structures and Water Channel Discovered at ayn Mound 0 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 6 247

Horrifying evidence of ancient humans cannibalising children emerges as toddler's remains excavated 0 Judi Lynn 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 5 349

Secret underground tunnels discovered in ruins of 4,300-year-old Chinese city 0 Judi Lynn 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 3 232

Mysterious ancient pyramids known as 'Giant's Graves' have been discovered in Europe 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 35 1110

3,500-Year-Old Rice Discovery Marks Longest Early Ocean Journey 2 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 22 753

1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis 0 muriel_volestrangler Jul 21 Jul 21 16 372

Hear What the World's Oldest Song From Over 3,400 Years Sounds Like 8 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 40 1600

Europe's oldest lake settlement uncovered in Albania 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 306

Lost tomb of Egyptian 'wizard doctor' reveals amazing evidence of ancient knowledge 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 13 553

Ancient rituals revealed: 6,000-year-old complex found in Trkiye 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 401

Skara Brae: The Scottish village older than the Pyramids 1 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 16 514

The First-Ever Whole Genome of an Ancient Egyptian Reveals What Life Was Like 4,800 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 9 367

Humans Felt The Effects of Weird Space Weather 41,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Jul 20 Jul 20 3 355

Indigenous rangers join WA's Burrup Peninsula underwater heritage survey 0 Judi Lynn Jul 19 Jul 19 1 196

This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 18 21 556

Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Jul 9 Jul 14 15 710

Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 10 472

Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Jul 10 Jul 10 11 532

Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 10 405

Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 6 Jul 6 3 353

Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 5 Jul 5 9 541

Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 52 1938

5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 531

Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 646

What Our World May Have Looked Like If Neanderthals Hadn't Died Off 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 785

Anthropology Continued...

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Men traded wares - but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea trade 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 15 466

Metallic door frame, said to be of Vijayanagar period, with sculptures of Lord Vishnu's dashavatara found at Perdoor in 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 14 499

Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 590

Did the Romans bring lions to England to maul criminals and prisoners of war to death for gruesome entertainment? 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 4 469

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 374

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 19 530

Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 7 502

Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 19 611

Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 636

80,000-year-old tools found in Sharjah's Jebel Faya reveal 210,000 years of human settlement 0 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 11 569

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed 27 erronis Jun 18 Jun 19 67 3221

Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists 24 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 98 4077

This Is The Oldest Kingdom In The World 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 39 1324

Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 629

'Very rare' Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident 1 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 20 772

Arrowheads unearthed at Becin ancient site 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 659

Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 11 639

DNA confirmed a Pueblo tribe's ties to Chaco Canyon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 8 584

Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia's first people 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 14 611

Discovery of 2,000-Year-Old Massive Shoe Reveals the Goliath of Roman Warriors 10 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 15 1176

700,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Cave in Iran 3 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 37 1151

Scientists uncover 35,000-year-old seafaring culture in the Philippine Islands 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 9 543

Massive Fields Where Native American Farmers Grew Corn, Beans and Squash 1,000 Years Ago Discovered in Michigan 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 17 678

Ancient Boat Coffins Unearthed in the Desert Reveal Secrets of a Forgotten Civilization 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 12 570

Young Woman with Cone-Shaped Skull Suffered Fatal Blow 6,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 7 678

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 8 427

Researchers Used 3D Tech to Rebuild the Parthenon's Lighting and Discovered It Was Nothing Like We Imagined 5 Judi Lynn May 14 Jun 10 21 1445

Archaeologists Found Ancient Tools That Contradict the Timeline of Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 23 912

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America's coldest places 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 9 632

An ancient writing system confounding myths about Africa 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 8 Jun 8 21 887

Anthropology Continued...

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Research Reveals That Ancient Trade Routes Delivered Domestic Cats to China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 11 514

Archaeologists Find Grisly Evidence of Medieval Public Punishment 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 12 712

'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture 0 WhiteTara May 27 May 27 8 634

Uncovered Medieval Tattoos Flesh Out a Misunderstood Practice 1 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 8 852

Versatile Call Combinations in Chimpanzees May Shed Light on the Evolution of Human Language 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 3 614

Archaeologists Found Evidence of Ancient Psychedelic Rituals in Peru 2 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 11 748

Astonishing secret city built 5,000 years ago by lost civilisation discovered underneath empty desert 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 11 947

Oxford team catalogues chimpanzee forest first aid 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 3 557

Scientists Identify Evidence of Ambush 17,000 Years Ago News 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 9 733

Lost City of the Samurai 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 8 664

A 5,000-year-old fire altar has been discovered in the oldest center of civilization in South America 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 12 810

Archaeologists Found 11,500-Year-Old Tools That Reveal an Incredible Human Adventure 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 14 780

A Sunken Land of Life and Intelligence: The Lost World of Homo Erectus Resurfaces After 140,000 Years 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 28 1138

South Korea's Female Free Divers May Have Evolved to Thrive Underwater, Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn May 24 May 24 7 761

Sardinia's Ancient Giant Statues Inspired by People with Acromegaly, Study Claims 2 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 6 808

Study: Neanderthals invented their own tech, didn't copy others 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 20 910

The Bristol zookeeper who has cradled gorillas and has rebuilt a rainforest 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 8 608

Chimp chatter is a lot more like human language than previously thought 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 5 566

Discovery of Ancient Lost Settlement on Scotland's Isle of Skye Rewrites Early Human History 3 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 11 1229

A 3,600-Year-Old Reed Boat Provides Clues to Early Urbanization in Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 2 943

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