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Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary People After the Western Roman Empire Fell
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (1287+ words) Ancient DNA suggests Rome’s fall reshaped Europe through gradual migration and intermarriage, not a sudden barbarian takeover....
25,000-year-old teeth yield earliest evidence of human drug use
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (528+ words) Fossilised teeth from Sulawesi carry the oldest known traces of human drug use, dated to between 16,000 and 25,000 years ago, researchers report. Traces of betel nut have been found in fossilised teeth from Indonesia's Sulawesi island, in what researchers describe as…...
Frontier archaeology traces the threads of ancient civilizations
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (458+ words) The symposium was jointly organized by the Society for Chinese Archaeology, the Institute of Archaeology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the National Centre for Archaeology, and the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences. This year's event focused on…...
What Archaeology Reveals About the Rise of All-Powerful Rulers
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1741+ words) Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations—many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged 11:00 AM CDT on September 7, 2026 Why are some societies ruled by autocrats — powerful people who make all the decisions with…...
Ancient Egyptians Were Putting Some Strange Things into Their Paint
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (277+ words) Protein traces reveal practical workshop recipes and a connection to the god Ptah....
Joint effort sheds light on ancient past
1+ week, 5+ day ago (458+ words) On the northern bank of the Yassy River beneath the Fergana Mountains, the ruins of Shorobashat in Kyrgyzstan are offering new clues to the region's ancient past, thanks to a joint effort by Chinese and Kyrgyz archaeologists. The collaborative archaeological…...
Stronger than us, but gone: Why did Neanderthals disappear??? and why are they still inside us?
2+ week, 19+ hour ago (19+ words) Stronger than us, but gone: Why did Neanderthals disappear — and why are they still inside us? ISNA News Agency...
Ancient Dental Calculus
2+ week, 4+ day ago (48+ words) (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Example of dental calculus attached to an ancient human tooth from the Umeda cemetery. Credit must be given to the creator. More on this News Release Ancient dental calculus reveals diverse diets of commoners in premodern Osaka, Japan,…...
Sumer: The Ancient Civilization That Helped Shape the Modern World
2+ week, 6+ day ago (27+ words) The Birthplace of Writing, Cities, and Ancient Innovation Long before modern cities, written laws, and organized governments …...
Ancient DNA Reveals How Europe Changed After the Fall of Rome
3+ week, 13+ hour ago (171+ words) A study challenges the idea that Barbarians simply dominated Europe during the Early Middle Ages. A new study from the HistoGenes project, whose co-PI includes Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is helping scholars build a…...