“Rather than producing new, the ancient scrap yard workers broke apart groups of outdated or damaged statues and prepared them for melting.” Amidst the statue fragments, which included a piece with an ...

The archaeologists posited a theory that the site containing the shattered bronze is considered an ancient scrap yard, of sorts, likely a spot where workers dismantled bronze statues so that ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

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Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

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an event that nearly caused the extinction of ancient human ancestors, according to recent research. Researchers collected the core during the fourth campaign of the Beyond EPICA — Oldest Ice ...

A new analysis of the 6,000-year-old stone circle known as Rujm el-Hiri (also Gilgal Refaim) in Golan Heights suggests that it was not built to observe the heavens. When you purchase through links ...