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The excavation of an ancient pyramid in the Holy Land has archaeologists all puzzled. The strange artifacts there suggest an unexpected link to Egypt.
26 MAR 2025 · 3 MIN

Gigantic Pyramid Unearthed in the Holy Land is 2,200 Years Old

Something unusual has been dug up in the Judean desert north of the waterway of Nahal Zohar. An ancient pyramid, dating back to the Hellenistic period, is emerging from the arid sandstone…

“We Saw the Stone, But Not the Circle”: Bronze Age Monument Found in England
24 MAR 2025 · 2 MIN

“We Saw the Stone, But Not the Circle”: Bronze Age Monument Found in England

Near the city of Matlock in Derbyshire lies Farley Wood, a sprawling mix of pine for logging amidst old growth harking back to an ancient time when dense forests covered the British…

We are not one, but many. New research shows an 80/20 split in our genes from two distinct proto-human lineages, millions of years ago. Source: Sérgio Valle Duarte / CC BY 3.0.
21 MAR 2025 · 4 MIN

Rewriting Human Evolution: Not One Lineage of Man, but Two?

A new study from a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has upended centuries of theory as to the origins and evolution of… us. We are not who we thought…

The excavated royal tomb at Abydos, and (inset) the burial chamber). Source: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
19 MAR 2025 · 4 MIN

Mysterious Egyptian Tomb May Be From Lost “Abydos” Dynasty

It never rains but it pours when it comes to the tombs of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, said nobody ever, but the metaphor certainly seems appropriate at the moment. A month ago we…

Although the empires may have survived, much of the old world of the Bronze Age was lost in the Collapse. Source: John William Waterhouse / Public Domain.
18 MAR 2025 · 2 MIN

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Three)

The Bronze Age Collapse was, definitively, the end of the Bronze Age. By the time the ancient civilizations had picked up the pieces and rediscovered how to write and interact with each…

My statue has no nose! How does he smell? Terrible! Source: José Luis Filpo Cabana / CC BY-SA 4.0.
17 MAR 2025 · 4 MIN

The Smell of the Greco Romans: Statues were Scented, New Study Finds

For those of you who watched the recent sequel to Gladiator, imaginatively named Gladiator II, firstly you have our sympathies. Whatever that mess was, it was closer to ill-conceived fantasy than a…