Archaeology

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Shanghai Museum's 'Meowseum Nights' lets visitors bring their cats to the Bastet temple exhibit

"About five or six cats got loose every night during 'Meowseum Nights', but none made it far before they were caught."

Study reveals humans' 500,000-year-old fascination with the color red

Although brown and earthy tones were more readily available, evidence indicates that humans had a clear preference for vibrant red ocher.

AI helps us decipher ancient texts, and in the process rewriting history

Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge had to develop their own programs to interpret existing 3D scans of the coiled scroll, with the virtual-unwrapping step being the bottleneck.

Anthropologists push for cataloging Martian debris as valuable artifacts

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not "space trash."

Archaeologists unearth 4,000-year-old copper dagger in Italy's Tina Jama Cave

The rare copper dagger was found alongside abundant ceramic remains, flint arrowheads, polished stone axes, and shell ornaments.

Rujm el-Hiri mystery deepens: Golan Heights site not what previously thought

A theory of the site was that its walls and entrances aligned with astronomical bodies, but as the site has shifted from its original position, it does not correspond to celestial observations

18th-century shipwreck discovered on Iran's Caspian Sea coast reveals maritime trade history

Radiocarbon dating places ship's construction between 1762 and 1808, suggesting Russian origins.

A 2,000-year-old wooden tablet reveals the oldest Latin text written by a woman

A glimpse into Roman life: The oldest Latin text by a Woman unveiled.

Study suggests historic climate disaster gave birth to Ragnarok, the Norse mythology apocalypse

In the year 536 CE, a series of volcanic eruptions in the Northern Hemisphere unleashed ash and sulfur gases into the atmosphere, enshrouding the globe in a veil that blocked sunlight.

3,000-year-old road network found at Yinxu, ancient capital of the Shang dynasty

The find marks the longest urban thoroughfare ever discovered at Yinxu and is the longest known preserved road of ancient China.

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