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Ea-nasir Tablet, the First Documented Complaint in History

A customer filing a complaint for being dissatisfied with the received product or even the treatment in the transaction is not unusual in our time. But it wasn’t uncommon in Antiquity either, even ...
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Did the First Human Ancestors Arise in the Balkans and Then Migrate to Africa? A 7.2-Million-Year-Old Femur Found in Bulgaria Rewrites the History of Evolution

An international team of researchers has presented this week the analysis of a fossil discovered in Bulgaria that could ...
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Extensive Area of Tombs Decorated with Winged Victories Discovered in the Imperial Necropolis of the Via Ostiense in Rome

Preventive excavations prior to the construction of a student residence in the San Paolo Fuori le Mura district, south of ...
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First Evidence Discovered That Bronze Age Blacksmiths in the Iberian Peninsula Already Had the Ability to Produce and Manipulate Steel

A research team from the University of Freiburg has demonstrated, through a detailed analysis of the microstructure and ...
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Cinadon, the Spartan Who Conspired to Socially Equalize All Citizens

Recently, in the article we devoted to the Spartan king Agesilaus II, we explained the context in which he had to ascend the ...
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Vindolanda Tablets Reveal Roman Soldiers Made Their Own Ink Using Ancient Techniques Already Obsolete in the Mediterranean

At the foot of Hadrian’s Wall, at the northernmost outpost of the Roman Empire, soldiers were not only fighting the Pictish ...
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The Surprising Line That Connects Europe with the Holy Land Linking Monasteries Dedicated to the Archangel Saint Michael (and the God Apollo)

Imagine for a moment a straight line drawn across a map. Now realize that this line, running from northwest to southeast, ...
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This Is How Europeans of the Urnfield Culture Experienced the Transition of the Late Bronze Age, According to a DNA Study

An international team of researchers has managed to overcome the obstacle posed by the widespread practice of cremation ...
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A 16th-Century Arabic Document Found in Sudan Demonstrates the Existence of a Legendary King of Nubia Who, Besides Waging War, Also Traded in Textiles and Liv…

At the archaeological site of Old Dongola, in northern Sudan, a small irregularly shaped piece of paper, measuring barely 10 ...
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Via Sacra, the Path Leading to the Most Important Sanctuary for Latins and Romans Hidden Among TV Repeaters

Mount Cavo is an ancient volcano that became extinct about 10,000 years ago, located in the municipality of Rocca di Papa, ...
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A cache containing 22 sarcophagi of the “singers of Amun” and eight intact papyri from the Third Intermediate Period discovered in Luxor

The joint Egyptian archaeological mission between the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Zahi Hawass Foundation for ...
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In 1054 Eastern Astronomers Discovered the Crab Pulsar, Which Emits Strange Waves with Bright and Dark Stripes: Now We Know Why

The astronomical community has spent two decades wondering why the Crab Pulsar, the stellar remnant born from a supernova that Chinese and Japanese astronomers documented in the year 1054, emits radio ...