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2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

Tiny Paleolithic bird carvings unearthed in Germany

Latin graffiti recorded in Spain’s Cova Dones cave sanctuary

Hundreds of geoglyphs mapped in the Amazon rainforest

Hippocampus mosaic uncovered in western Turkey

Digital reconstruction reveals early Maya calendrical writing at Calakmul

Study: household inequality narrowed as Mohenjo-daro grew

Copper bells uncovered at Yampara site in Bolivia

Lake Turkana footprints reevaluated as tall Paranthropus boisei group

Early Roman fortification traced at Vindonissa, Switzerland

Pompeii’s restored House with Bakery ceiling brings Dionysus and Ariadne fresco back to view

Study tracks origins of 19th-century Africans left on Atlantic island

Barracks foundation found in Nova Scotia fort

Lalibela at the heart of cultural diplomacy and World Heritage conservation

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

Ice Age teeth in Sulawesi push betel-nut use back as far as 25,000 years

Roman mosaic and Eros head uncovered in the basilica at Pompeiopolis, Kastamonu

Devil’s Arrows stones sourced to Brimham Rocks, 18 km from Britain’s tallest stone row

4,600-year-old game board and engraved comb recovered at Shahr-i-Sokhta

80,000-year-old microlithic points at Obi-Rakhmat compared with Mandrin arrowheads

University of Udine maps Nimrud’s 800-acre lower town beyond the acropolis

Neolithic malachite and copper workshop exposed at Çayönü Tepesi, Ergani

Dahshur princesses’ skeletons show habitual archery, not only ceremonial weapons

Nature lidar survey estimates tens of thousands of earthworks in southwest Amazonia

Pine tar, beeswax, and pollen reconstruct repairs on the Ilovik–Paržine 1 wreck

About 25 Epipaleolithic turtle figurines recovered at Gedikkaya Cave, Bilecik

Theban Tomb 209 reuse shows ordered stacking, not a disordered mummy dump

Tiny Paleolithic bird carvings unearthed in Germany

Latin graffiti recorded in Spain’s Cova Dones cave sanctuary

Hundreds of geoglyphs mapped in the Amazon rainforest

Hippocampus mosaic uncovered in western Turkey

Digital reconstruction reveals early Maya calendrical writing at Calakmul

Study: household inequality narrowed as Mohenjo-daro grew

Copper bells uncovered at Yampara site in Bolivia

Lake Turkana footprints reevaluated as tall Paranthropus boisei group

Early Roman fortification traced at Vindonissa, Switzerland

Pompeii’s restored House with Bakery ceiling brings Dionysus and Ariadne fresco back to view

Study tracks origins of 19th-century Africans left on Atlantic island

Barracks foundation found in Nova Scotia fort

Lalibela at the heart of cultural diplomacy and World Heritage conservation

2,800-year-old agora uncovered at Troy refutes Dark Age abandonment myth

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700 BCE – 1644 CE

The vast frontier fortification system of northern China — rammed-earth Qin walls and the iconic stone Ming battlements — remains the single most conspicuous monumental gap left in a global archaeological atlas.

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