Occupation of the last Neanderthal groups in the Cantabrian Region

Occupation of the last Neanderthal groups in the Cantabrian Region

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have participated in a study published in the journal...

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Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at 'deadliest possible' angle

Dinosaur-dooming asteroid struck earth at 'deadliest possible' angle

New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the ‘deadliest possible’ ...

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7,000 years of demographic history in France

7,000 years of demographic history in France

A team led by scientists from the Institut Jacques Monod (CNRS/Université de Paris) have shown that French prehistory was punctuated by two...

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3,500-year-old small clay 'tablet' featuring two human figures found near Tel Jemmeh

3,500-year-old small clay 'tablet' featuring two human figures found near Tel Jemmeh

Six-year-old Imri Elya from Kibbutz Nirim, went on an outing last March with his parents to tour the Tel Jemmeh archaeological site locat...

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Greece calls again for return of Parthenon Sculptures

Greece calls again for return of Parthenon Sculptures

Greece on Saturday urged Britain to return the Parthenon Sculptures - often known as the Elgin Marbles - as one of the world's greate...

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Italy opens ancient Greek site as lockdown eases

Italy opens ancient Greek site as lockdown eases

Ahead of the Colosseum and Pompeii, the towering Greek temple complex at Paestum near Naples is the first Italian archaeological site to reo...

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Life-size wooden statue of Warlord discovered in Japan

Life-size wooden statue of Warlord discovered in Japan

A life-size wooden statue of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi has been discovered at Omiyajinja shrine in Osaka, providing a clue to how pe...

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First exhaustive study of the Palaeolithic site of El Provencio, Spain

First exhaustive study of the Palaeolithic site of El Provencio, Spain

The researcher Davinia Moreno, a geochronologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the co-le...

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European Ice Age hunters ate wolf meat

European Ice Age hunters ate wolf meat

While carrying out excavations in the villages of Pavlov and Dolni Vestonice near Brno in the Czech Republic, Czech archaeologists had ea...

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Punic, Roman-era tombs found in Tarxien

Punic, Roman-era tombs found in Tarxien

A cluster of seven tombs, one which included the remains of two adult skeletons, were discovered during construction works in the limits ...

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Earliest evidence of Italians' genetic diversity dates back to end of last glacial period

Earliest evidence of Italians' genetic diversity dates back to end of last glacial period

In Europe, Italians are the richest population in terms of genetic wealth. This is now common knowledge. The gradient of their genetic varia...

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Discovery of thousands of animal bones reveals cosmopolitan diet of early Muslim communities in Ethiopia

Discovery of thousands of animal bones reveals cosmopolitan diet of early Muslim communities in Ethiopia

Early Muslim communities in Africa ate a cosmopolitan diet as the region became a trading center for luxury goods, the discovery of thous...

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