Archeology
Decoding the ancient Maya city
The ancient Maya city of Tikal, in present-day Guatemala, flourished from about 600 BC to 900 AD.
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Ancient Egyptians loved 2D painting, the style has many similarities with modern comics
If you look at the ancient Egyptian paintings, it is easy to see that they were all painted in the style that we later called 2D.
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Successfully recreate the 3,200 year old perfume of ancient Mesopotamia
Researchers successfully produced a perfume in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago thanks to a clay tablet recipe.
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Discovered a Roman city in the Pyrenees
Archaeological treasures recently unearthed in the Pyrenees have revealed an ancient Roman imperial city and a section of the Via Domitia.
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Decoding the mystery: Since when did our ancestors become warm-blooded animals?
The origin of endothermia in mammals is one of the great unsolved mysteries of paleontology.
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The cause of shock that caused the Maya empire to evaporate: Warning about the apocalypse is real
A research team has combined a wealth of historical records with new analyzes of Mayan remains from the late empire, pointing to a kind of apocalypse that we ourselves m…
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Archaeologists find fossils of ancient giant storks taller than humans
Archaeologists discovered the 1.5 meter tall Flores stork on the island of the same name that specializes in eating animal carcasses and this may be the reason they beca…
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When there was no money, how did people buy and sell?
It can be said that money is one of the great inventions of man. But when there is no money, trading and exchanging goods still take place in a different way.
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Find out the secret of dinosaurs to rule all species
Dinosaurs were able to take over the planet and dominate all species thanks to this special ability that gave them an advantage.
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The strange sea monster can be the 'ancestor' of all creatures on the planet
Strange creatures lurking deep in the Earth's oceans more than half a billion years ago, it seems to be
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Ancient wolf mummies reveal the origin of domestic dogs
An international team of geneticists and archaeologists, led by the Francis Crick Institute, has found that the dog's ancestry may have come from at least two ancient wo…
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The 2,000-year-old creature intact and stunned in the petrified city
The picture of petrified life in the ancient city of Pompeii has been supplemented with an unexpected specimen: a 2,000-year-old turtle with an egg intact in its belly.
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Analyzing cosmic matter, finding Earth's first human?
Two distinctive isotopes in quartz created by high-energy cosmic ray reactions near the Earth's surface have revealed the age of skeletons that may be older than the fam…
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Mysterious discovery: Ancient underground labyrinth temple in Egypt!
This is one of Egypt's most mysterious archaeological finds because it has been discovered and investigated, but its specific results have so far been kept secret.
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Sa-Nakht: Who is the giant pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt 5000 years ago?
Sanakht was an Egyptian king of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. His place in the annals is again highly uncertain.