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Roman Brooch Discovery Reveals Iron Age-Roman Exchange in Scotland

Hidden beneath a Scottish whisky distillery, archaeologists have uncovered a treasure that enhances our understanding of ancient Britain’s most turbulent frontier. A single, exquisite Roman

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Ancient Mummified Head Reveals Shocking Identity After Century in Swiss Museum

For over a century, a mysterious mummified head housed in Switzerland’s Cantonal Museum of Archaeology and History has carried the wrong identity. What museum curators believed to

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Underwater Port Discovery Could Lead to Cleopatra's Lost Tomb

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery that could finally solve one of history’s greatest mysteries: the location of Cleopatra’s tomb. A team led by Dominican

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Rare Avar Warrior's Saber Found Using Revolutionary Satellite Tech

Archaeologists in Hungary have made an extraordinary discovery that promises to reshape our understanding of early medieval warfare and social hierarchies. A rare Avar-era saber

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Get Out: Excommunicated in Medieval England

In 1229 the people of Dunstable declared that they would rather go to hell than submit in a dispute over taxes. This was not mere

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Wimpy vs McDonald’s: The Battle of the Burgers

When the burger landed on the tables of the first Wimpy Bar in 1954, it marked a new era of modernity, global connection, and convenience

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The Wolf That Devours Gods & the Human Shadow

We usually think of monsters as things to be feared or destroyed. Yet sometimes they carry messages we would not hear in any other form.

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Playing God: Mossad’s Murder of Achmed Bouchiki

On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven

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Predynastic Rock Art Reveals Egypt's First Kings Claimed Divine Power

Predynastic Rock Art Reveals Egypt’s First Kings Claimed Divine Power Revolutionary discoveries in Egypt’s Eastern Desert are rewriting our understanding of how the world’s earliest

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Punk Rock Dinosaur Rewrites Prehistoric Armor Evolution

Scientists have discovered that the world’s oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate, living or extinct. The 165-million-year-old Spicomellus