Tag: ancient

Lice genes offer clues to ancient human history

As we evolved from ape-like primates to bipedal apes to large-brained humans,

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Did Jason and the Argonauts discover Turkish tablets in ancient times?

Turkey has no sea. But there are three oceans. To the south

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How French linguist Champollion deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics

Two centuries ago this week, French linguist Jean-François Champollion announced that he

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An unknown language hidden in the “religious ritual text” of an ancient stone tablet is discovered

A new language has been discovered at a UNESCO World Heritage site

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Worms reveal ancient emotional mechanisms

summary: Researchers have discovered that this humble roundworm may have insight into

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Archaeologists discover previously unknown language in ancient tablets

Archaeologists recently discovered a previously unknown ancient language on ancient stone tablets

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Ancient logs show earliest example of human woodworking

Nearly 500,000 years ago, humans in Africa assembled wood into large structures,

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How the Akkadian cylinder seal functioned as an ancient signature (video)

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important areas

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Ancient Roman “amazing glass” has a patina of photonic crystals forged over centuries – Ars Technica

Expanding / Micrograph of photonic crystals on the surface of ancient Roman

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UNESCO designates ancient Jericho ruins as a world heritage site, angering Israel

Mahmoud Irian/AP The ruins of Tell es-Sultan in Jericho, West Bank. Jerusalem

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Ancient Jericho added to Palestine’s UNESCO World Heritage List

comment on this storycommentA United Nations committee on Sunday voted to recognize

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Unraveling ancient climate secrets – melting ice may have caused climate change more than 8,000 years ago

Scientists have discovered that the melting of ice sheets 8,000 years ago

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