Gods in the classroom: Religion and education in 1st millennium BCE Babylonia
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We have recently discovered and recovered forty-eight prehistoric arrows in Jotunheimen – the trend is clear: now the oldest ice is melting
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Michael Parenti - The Assassination of Julius Caesar - A people’s history of Ancient Rome
Who doggy what a read. Parenti in his classic prose, dissecting class structure with a twist, Ancient Rome. Anyone read this bad boy? I’m 3/4 of the way in and I’m lovin it.
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Deep inside a Spanish cave, Roman women may have worshipped a mysterious goddess
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A Roman scroll that should be ash has just been read without ever being opened
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Who was the first transgender person?
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The history of lipstick
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Multiview Stereo Projection—Making Star Wars holograms IRL
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Stone Age boy in Sweden was buried in deerskin and a woodpecker headdress, archaeologists discover
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After 1,600 years underwater, remains of the Lighthouse of Alexandria emerge
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On ancient migrations
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Scientists find foreign trees and one fingerprint on iron age warship from Scandinavia
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The Berkshire mystery: where exactly is "Berk"?
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Tutankhamun archaeological records go online in new searchable archive
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How we unlocked the secrets of Denmark's oldest plank boat – with the help of an ancient fingerprint
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This road goes straight through a major prehistoric cave
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Nobel Prize winner, Svante Pääbo, is investigating genetic changes that could have given our species a competitive advantage, and the possibility of extracting the genome of the Flores hobbit
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Lighthouse of Alexandria rises again: giant blocks resurface after 2,000 years
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Museum of Color - from ancient ochre to blacker than Vanta Black
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The ancient Roman alternative to daylight saving time; An hour was not a consistent unit of time. In the summer it could be as long as 75 minutes and in the winter it sometimes lasted just 45 minutes.
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Researchers uncover Stone Age settlement submerged by rising sea levels in Denmark
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Medieval Europeans were fanatical about a strange fruit with a vulgar name that could only be eaten rotten. Then it was forgotten altogether. Why did they love it so much? And why did it disappear?
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A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans
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The mysteries of Roman inscriptions are being solved with a new AI tool
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We found French underwear in an ancient Sumerian city | Girsu Project | Curator's Corner S10 Ep4
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping
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Europe's undeciphered prehistoric tablets
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Stoicism’s appeal to the rich and powerful
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Stonehenge-like circle unearthed in Denmark – archaeologists suggest ‘woodhenge’ was built between 2600 and 1600BC on similar axis to English stone circle
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Thutmose II: First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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How AI is unlocking ancient texts — and could rewrite history
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Investigating the most extreme ancient village in the United States
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Advanced technology discovered under Neolithic dwelling in Denmark – a stone paved root cellar, which could represent a remarkable technological leap in resource preservation
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We may be close to rediscovering thousands of texts that had been lost for millennia. Their contents may reshape how we understand the Ancient World.
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The theory that men evolved to hunt and women evolved to gather is wrong
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Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds
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How rediscovering Neanderthals primed us for the search for extraterrestrial life
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The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism
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Ahmes, the first known maths author
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Government without states (how to raise a tribal army in pre-Roman Europe, part II)
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Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified
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Why were Ancient Egyptians obsessed with cats?
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Plato's burial place finally revealed after AI deciphers ancient scroll carbonized in Mount Vesuvius eruption
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A discovery among the mummies reveals a sick, sad truth. Parasitic worms plagued these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
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Insular India - A video on the archaeological legacies of the Indian subcontinent
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Climate movement elders revive monkey wrench tactics to save an old forest in Washington
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On the nature of ancient evidence
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Ancient Beat - the newsletter of ancient history - celebrates its 100th Issue
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