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10+ hour, 55+ min ago  (509+ words) Neolithic builders near Jerusalem mastered dolomitic lime plaster nearly 8, 000 years before its first known Roman use The site lies about five kilometers west of Jerusalem, between the Nahal Motza and Nahal Soreq streams. Excavations carried out ahead of highway construction…...

21+ hour, 43+ min ago  (206+ words) Feels like: 5. 6 C5. 6 F | Overcast DNA analysis has revealed that two children buried together in an Anglo-Saxon grave at Cherington, Gloucestershire, were brother and sister. Archaeologists say it is rare in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries to find that two people were buried together…...

15+ hour, 6+ min ago  (173+ words) The ship, which has yet to be identified, is believed to have been built in the late 1500s, which would make it older than Sweden's iconic 17th-century warship "Vasa" on display in Stockholm after being salvaged in the 1960s. A navy vessel…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago  (665+ words) Oxford Cotswold Archaeology says Kirkby Thore has previously yielded "rare and significant" early medieval features People wanting to try their hand at archaeology are being asked to volunteer for a dig on a medieval site. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) said…...

1+ hour, 3+ min ago  (337+ words) A 13-year-old schoolboy has uncovered a rare ancient Greek coin in a field on the outskirts of Berlin, later confirmed by experts to be more than 2, 300 years old and the first of its kind ever found in the German capital....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (52+ words) In 480 BCE, a Greek force of'perhaps seven'thousand men,'among them three hundred Spartans under King Leonidas,'held the'multitudes of the'Persian army of Xerxes I at the coastal pass of Thermopylae for three days. Stripped of mythology, Thermopylae endures for one…...

1+ hour, 9+ min ago  (715+ words) Led by the University of Glasgow, the team used advanced imaging technology to recover 42 missing pages from Codex H, a sixth-century Greek manuscript containing the letters of Apostle Paul, according to an'announcement from the university. The manuscript, also known as'GA…...

9+ hour, 3+ min ago  (459+ words) A new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science reveals that the brains of domestic dogs began shrinking significantly at least 5, 000 years ago. Researchers analyzed evolutionary history to determine how canine brain volume changed during the long process…...

1+ hour, 1+ min ago  (198+ words) The Times of India Deglurkar, a world-known iconologist and expert on the Kailasa Temple, Prof Medha Kulkarni, Member of Parliament, Rajyasabha, and Jayant B Joshi, a renowned artist Rahul Deshpande will engage with the audience on Thursday, April 30, at 5: 00 PM,…...

5+ hour, 44+ min ago  (168+ words) Why would anyone want to study an ancient sewer? Archeologists have been doing just that to learn more about what diseases plagued the Roman armies stationed at Vindolanda in the North of England. Nowadays, these parasites are much less common…...