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4,000-Year-Old Clay Tablets Show Ancient Sumerians’ Obsession With Government Bureaucracy
The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...
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Ancient clay tablets offer vivid portrait of Mesopotamian life
When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...
Divers Found a 3,000-Year-Old Statue at the Bottom of a Lake—With Fresh Human Fingerprints
At the underwater archaeology site of Gran Carro di Bolsena in Aiola, Italy, divers found an ancient clay figurine pegged to ...
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Archaeologists Discover Mosaics of Two Fighting Cupids and a Mysterious Inscription at an Ancient Greek City Hall
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
Archaeologists Excavated a Pyramid and Found 2,400-Year-Old Puppets That Look Hauntingly Alive
Archaeologists in El Salvador found a collection of clay puppets from the pre-Columbian El Salvador that they dated to around ...
How can we ethically display the dead in museums? What about resin casts of those who died violently in Pompeii?
Around the world, museums are grappling with the question of what to do with human remains. This includes lifelike copies of those who may have died traumatically.