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Construction crews building Trump's border wall have damaged part of a Native American archaeological complex in Arizona at least a thousand years old

The Las Playas Intaglio is a sacred geoglyph in the shape of a fish, laid out on the desert surface in the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in south-western Arizona. The full length of the figure is about 83 metres. The contractor's heavy construction machinery ran across

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In 1625, in the environs of Xi'an, the ancient capital of Tang China, Jesuit monks discovered beneath creepers and a layer of earth a stone stele almost three metres high, bearing a text in Chinese with Syriac insertions

In 1625, in the environs of Xi'an, the ancient capital of Tang China, Jesuit monks discovered beneath creepers and a layer of earth a stone stele almost three metres high, bearing a text in Chinese with Syriac insertions. The stele is dated to 781. The inscription described the

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Georgia Yields the Earliest Physical Evidence of Bread Wheat Anywhere in the World

On the hills of Shulaveri and Gadachrili in Georgia, archaeologists led by David Lordkipanidze have found charred grains, impressions of ears in mudbricks and seeds of wild goat grass some eight thousand years old. A laboratory at the Weizmann Institute has confirmed the radiocarbon dating: 5800-6000 BC. The point

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From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing”

From the famous Prigov: “Just stepped out of the bath, and already I remember nothing.” A month is built much the same way. So let me propose recalling the main things from April's publications in the digest. 🎭 At the Taganka Theatre, Alexander Zolotovitsky has staged “Three Sisters”, in

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Around AD 98, Tacitus writes in the «Germania» that the Baltic Aestii gather amber in the shallows, make no use of it themselves, sell it raw to Roman merchants, and are amazed at the price

The typical Roman view of neighbours as barbarians, mere suppliers of raw material, is being demolished by archaeological finds. Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw have found ten amber workshops in five settlements in Masovia, one of them holding more than twenty thousand fragments of raw material dating from the

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Among the archaeological methods of which the general public seldom hears, one of the most delicate lies hidden: palynological analysis

Among the archaeological methods of which the general public seldom hears, one of the most delicate lies hidden: palynological analysis. The method studies plant pollen. Microscopic grains, measuring a few thousandths of a millimetre, fall from flowering trees and grasses by the billion and settle everywhere: on the ground, in

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Around 1700, a Young Man of Obscure Origins Was Wandering About Europe

Around 1700, a young man of obscure origins was wandering about Europe. He went through several legends before settling on the most advantageous of them, announcing himself a native of the island of Formosa. Under the name of George Psalmanazar he made his way to London, where he found a

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An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena has set side by side three sets of data: models of the distribution of the largest complexes of vector mosquitoes, palaeoclimatic models and the settlement sites of early humans in sub-Saharan Africa in the period

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In the ancient city of Laodicea in south-western Turkey, a marble statue of Athena almost two metres tall has been found in the ruins of the western theatre

In the ancient city of Laodicea in south-western Turkey, a marble statue of Athena almost two metres tall has been found in the ruins of the western theatre. The statue lay face down in a collapse of rubble by the outer wall of an administrative building. The head and

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The first documented case of sucking up to a teacher was preserved for us by Sumerian literature

The first documented case of sucking up to a teacher was preserved for us by Sumerian literature. It is probably one of the most popular texts in Sumerian: a poem about a negligent pupil, written around 2000 BC by an unknown teacher. The poem was called "Schooldays". The

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At the Greek Consulate General in Chicago, an American family handed over to Greece's Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, a collection of antiquities purchased in the 1970s and 1980s

At the Greek Consulate General in Chicago, an American family handed over to Greece's Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, a collection of antiquities purchased in the 1970s and 1980s. Among the items returned are two black-figure Attic vases, an amphora, a jug, a bronze mirror, a headless

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In Mexico, during construction of the $8 billion Mexico City–Querétaro high-speed railway, 16 rock paintings and petroglyphs were discovered along its route

In Mexico, during construction of the $8 billion Mexico City–Querétaro high-speed railway, 16 rock paintings and petroglyphs were discovered along its route. It was then decided to move the route, so as to save the site of the rock images from destruction. The finds belong to two eras.