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Scientists Find Aztec 'Death Whistles' do Weird Things to the Listeners' Brains 5 Reader Rabbit Wednesday 7 hrs ago 13 548

Lost Babylonian Hymn Deciphered 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 8 373

Archeologists uncover evidence of massive 6,000-year-old timber hall in Scotland 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 10 432

Researchers Sequence Whole Genome of Ancient Egyptian 1 Judi Lynn Jul 6 Jul 6 10 331

Iliad in ancient greek pronunciation (substack link) 0 BootinUp Jul 6 Jul 6 3 290

This Ancient City May Have Been Ruled by Women, DNA Reveals 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 6 20 433

Textile archaeology 4 BootinUp Jul 5 Jul 5 9 423

Neanderthals Operated "Fat Factories" 125,000 Years Ago 9 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 52 1715

5,000 year-old ancient Egyptian genome reveals links to an ancient civilisation 2 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 438

Archaeologists discover mysterious mummies in Chinese desert 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 549

What Our World May Have Looked Like If Neanderthals Hadn't Died Off 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 11 677

Men traded wares - but women traded knowledge: what a new archaeological study tells us about PNG sea trade 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 15 397

Metallic door frame, said to be of Vijayanagar period, with sculptures of Lord Vishnu's dashavatara found at Perdoor in 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 14 418

Rare 300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal diet secrets of early humans 3 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 10 484

Did the Romans bring lions to England to maul criminals and prisoners of war to death for gruesome entertainment? 1 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 4 394

Ancient DNA shows genetic link between Egypt and Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn Jul 5 Jul 5 9 298

300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools "Made By Denisovans" Discovered In China 1 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 19 450

Long-Lost Nile City Unearthed Beneath Egypt By Declan Gallagher Men's Journal Updated 0 Judi Lynn Jul 4 Jul 4 7 431

Zanzibar's baobab trees used to be a valued part of society - drone images help prove it 1 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 19 539

Archaeologists discover what could be world's oldest boomerang in Europe 4 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 512

80,000-year-old tools found in Sharjah's Jebel Faya reveal 210,000 years of human settlement 0 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 10 485

Earliest evidence of humans in the Americas confirmed 27 erronis Jun 18 Jun 19 67 2866

Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists 24 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 98 3821

This Is The Oldest Kingdom In The World 2 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 39 1231

Were Poland's first rulers actually from Scotland? 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 557

'Very rare' Viking grave uncovered in Denmark by accident 1 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 20 694

Arrowheads unearthed at Becin ancient site 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 13 593

Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 11 575

DNA confirmed a Pueblo tribe's ties to Chaco Canyon 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 8 517

Ice Age cave find upends what we know about Australia's first people 0 Judi Lynn Jun 18 Jun 18 14 548

Anthropology Continued...

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Discovery of 2,000-Year-Old Massive Shoe Reveals the Goliath of Roman Warriors 10 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 16 15 1015

700,000-Year-Old Human Remains Found in Cave in Iran 3 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 37 1058

Scientists uncover 35,000-year-old seafaring culture in the Philippine Islands 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 9 477

Massive Fields Where Native American Farmers Grew Corn, Beans and Squash 1,000 Years Ago Discovered in Michigan 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 16 615

Ancient Boat Coffins Unearthed in the Desert Reveal Secrets of a Forgotten Civilization 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 12 503

Young Woman with Cone-Shaped Skull Suffered Fatal Blow 6,000 Years Ago 1 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 7 594

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Judi Lynn Jun 15 Jun 15 8 356

Researchers Used 3D Tech to Rebuild the Parthenon's Lighting and Discovered It Was Nothing Like We Imagined 5 Judi Lynn May 14 Jun 10 21 1336

Archaeologists Found Ancient Tools That Contradict the Timeline of Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 23 817

Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America's coldest places 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 9 570

An ancient writing system confounding myths about Africa 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 8 Jun 8 21 800

Research Reveals That Ancient Trade Routes Delivered Domestic Cats to China 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 11 452

Archaeologists Find Grisly Evidence of Medieval Public Punishment 0 Judi Lynn Jun 8 Jun 8 12 641

'Trash' found deep inside a Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture 0 WhiteTara May 27 May 27 8 572

Uncovered Medieval Tattoos Flesh Out a Misunderstood Practice 1 Judi Lynn May 26 May 26 8 773

Versatile Call Combinations in Chimpanzees May Shed Light on the Evolution of Human Language 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 3 535

Archaeologists Found Evidence of Ancient Psychedelic Rituals in Peru 2 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 11 667

Astonishing secret city built 5,000 years ago by lost civilisation discovered underneath empty desert 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 11 863

Oxford team catalogues chimpanzee forest first aid 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 3 475

Scientists Identify Evidence of Ambush 17,000 Years Ago News 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 9 665

Lost City of the Samurai 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 8 586

A 5,000-year-old fire altar has been discovered in the oldest center of civilization in South America 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 12 737

Archaeologists Found 11,500-Year-Old Tools That Reveal an Incredible Human Adventure 1 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 14 701

A Sunken Land of Life and Intelligence: The Lost World of Homo Erectus Resurfaces After 140,000 Years 0 Judi Lynn May 25 May 25 28 1069

South Korea's Female Free Divers May Have Evolved to Thrive Underwater, Study Finds 2 Judi Lynn May 24 May 24 7 668

Sardinia's Ancient Giant Statues Inspired by People with Acromegaly, Study Claims 2 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 6 729

Study: Neanderthals invented their own tech, didn't copy others 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 20 843

The Bristol zookeeper who has cradled gorillas and has rebuilt a rainforest 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 8 551

Chimp chatter is a lot more like human language than previously thought 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 5 501

Discovery of Ancient Lost Settlement on Scotland's Isle of Skye Rewrites Early Human History 3 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 11 1128

Anthropology Continued...

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A 3,600-Year-Old Reed Boat Provides Clues to Early Urbanization in Mesopotamia 0 Judi Lynn May 14 May 14 2 880

Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man 6 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 73 3145

'If it was a man, we would say that's a warrior's grave': Weapon-filled burials are shaking up what we know about women' 2 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 16 709

Mystery stone circle reveals 'ultimate adventure story' of human presence in Europe 1 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 10 644

DNA Links Modern Picuris Pueblo Tribe to Ancestors Who Lived in Chaco Canyon Hundreds of Years Ago 2 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 15 895

Archaeologists unearth tree-lined walkway that led to ancient Egyptian fortress in Sinai Desert News By Owen Jarus publi 2 Judi Lynn May 12 May 12 10 1040

Archaeologists discover hundreds of metal objects up to 3,400 years old on mysterious volcanic hilltop in Hungary 2 Judi Lynn May 4 May 5 23 993

These Extraordinary Archaeological Sites Are a Portal to Ancient Egypt 1 Judi Lynn May 4 May 4 7 693

Battle Irrevocably Destroyed Ancient Chinese Cypress Forest 0 Judi Lynn May 4 May 4 10 708

The Overlooked Greek Foundations of Roman Law 3 Judi Lynn May 4 May 4 8 750

AI helping researchers, laypeople discover archaeological sites in Japan mountains 0 Judi Lynn May 4 May 4 9 541

Dark personalities more prevalent in less democratic countries, massive study shows 5 Judi Lynn May 4 May 4 10 809

Phaistos: The Palatial Mountain Fortress of Minoan Crete 2 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 28 16 896

Hidden Message Discovered On 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Obelisk In Paris 9 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 28 42 2158

These 400,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusks Carved by Early Humans May Be the Oldest Evidence of Prehistoric Intelligence 1 Judi Lynn Apr 28 Apr 28 10 881

Rare 3,500-Year-Old Chariot Wheel Discovered at Golf Course in Scotland 1 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 28 10 802

Unopened Victorian soft drink bottle found at dig 1 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 27 11 787

Across China: Tech meets culture -- China's digital renaissance of ancient heritage 0 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 27 1 459

New Evidence of Phoenician Origins Emerges 0 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 27 15 731

Ice Age Humans Were Experts at Wielding Fire, Study Finds 0 Judi Lynn Apr 27 Apr 27 9 618

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