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Stone Tools in China: A 70,000–100,000-Year-Old Shift
9+ hour, 23+ min ago (504+ words) A 70,000–100,000-year-old site in China’s Lower Yangtze region yielded 3,596 stone artifacts. Their size and manufacture point to a change in toolmaking, but not to a known species or a settled explanation. Stone tools in China’s Lower Yangtze region point to…...
English Museum to Repatriate Colonial-Era Human Remains
1+ week, 1+ day ago (259+ words) FILE -- Dolly Kikon, a scholar with the Naga delegation, who found charms and an amulet from her own Lotha Naga community on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, which has Naga ancestral remains in its collection, June…...
The Writings Survived, But Its Meaning Didn’t
11+ hour, 29+ min ago (253+ words) I often lost myself in the middle of writing. Timeliness was never really my enemy — my memory was. It would erase the very thing it was trying to …...
1,800-year-old Buddhist caves at Khambhalida in poor condition: Foundation stone laid 15-yrs ago, ₹16 cr spent, inauguration still pending - Rajkot News
20+ hour, 1+ min ago (574+ words) The government has declared the 1,800-year-old historic Khambhalida Buddhist caves near Kagvad a protected heritage site. The state tourism department had planned to develop a world-class tourist destination near the caves at a cost of ₹16 crore, just 300 metres from the…...
What’s Inside an Etch A Sketch?
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (739+ words) Ever wonder what’s inside an Etch A Sketch? The strange little mechanism behind this classic toy is surprisingly clever....
Addressing the Prehistoric Egyptian
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (100+ words) NOTE: While reading my first academic book on Ancient Egypt, I felt the urge to write a sort of poem reflecting how I daydream within this realm. Here, this is my …...
How Blood and Lime May Have Preserved Huashan Rock Art
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (678+ words) Researchers studying fallen Huashan rock art fragments found a lime-and-blood binder around red pigment. The possible link to childbirth remains an interpretation, not chemical proof. How did the Huashan rock art survive for roughly 2,000 years on limestone cliffs exposed to…...
Babur at 543: the poet who founded an empire
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (162+ words) Meer | English edition Babur was not only an emperor; he was also a very talented poet, scholar, and intellectual whose literary legacy is no less significant than his political achievements. He wrote ghazals, rubaiyat, and didactic verses in the old…...
Ancient Denisovan Fossils and Tools Unearthed in Southwestern China
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (363+ words) Archaeologists have unearthed a rare collection of Denisovan fossils and over 1,300 stone tools at a cave site in southwestern China, providing unprecedented insights into the daily lives of the enigmatic ancient human species. The discoveries at Bianfu Cave in Yunnan…...
42 skeletons, 90 years of mystery: Can a new Ujjain dig solve an ancient burial puzzle?
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (984+ words) The Times of India For nearly nine decades, a hillock in Ujjain has held a burial mystery that archaeologists have never fully been able to explain Forty-two skeletons were found here during an excavation in 1938-39, but what puzzled the excavators…...