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Mongol-Era Christian Headdress Reveals A Complex Medieval Russia
Archaeologists in Russia have discovered a rare embroidered Deisis depicting Jesus Christ in a Christian medieval burial ground containing 46 graves from the Mongol period.…
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Mongol-Era Christian Headdress Reveals A Complex Medieval Russia
Archaeologists in Russia have discovered a rare embroidered Deisis depicting Jesus Christ in a Christian medieval burial ground containing 46 graves from the Mongol period.…
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Fake Egyptian Tomb Fraudsters Almost Pull Off Legendary Hoax
Egypt’s Public Prosecution office just issued an arrest warrant for a group of crafty criminals who cooked up an ingenious scheme to swindle antiquities traffickers.…
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Delicate discovery: How a rare Roman mosaic was lifted from the ground
Archaeologists in the U.K. have revealed how they unearthed a 1,600-year-old Roman mosaic and lifted it out of the ground. The mosaic floor, which dates…
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Hub of Ancient Persian, Roman, and Coptic Tombs Unearthed in Egypt
A collection of ancient tombs from the Persian, Roman, and Coptic eras has been unearthed by archaeologists in the Minya governorate of Egypt, situated about…
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Stunning biblical ‘spies’ mosaic discovered in Israel
Researchers have uncovered a stunning mosaic depicting a biblical scene at the site of an ancient synagogue in Northern Israel. The mosaic, which is the…
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The Sumerian King List Reveals the Origin of Mesopotamian Kingship
Out of the many incredible artifacts that have been recovered from sites in Iraq where flourishing Sumerian cities once stood, few have been more intriguing…
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Syria digs up ‘rare’ Roman mosaic in former rebel stronghold
Syria uncovered a large intact mosaic that dates back to the Roman era, describing it Wednesday as the most important archaeological discovery since the country’s…
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Earliest-known Human Engineered Hybrid Animals Identified in Mesopotamia
A super-powerful animal known as the ‘kunga’ was the first-known human-engineered hybrid of two animal species, reports a new study published in Science Advances .…
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4,500-Year-Old Sumerian Palace Uncovered in Iraqi Desert
Reaching the culmination of a search that has been going on for the past several years, a team of archaeologists affiliated with the British Museum…