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A cheap copper-alloy ring, dug up in the 1960s at Herodium, King Herod's fortress-palace in the Judaean Desert, bearing the image of a vessel and the Greek letters ΠΙΛΑΤΟ

A cheap copper-alloy ring, dug up in the 1960s at Herodium, King Herod's fortress-palace in the Judaean Desert, bearing the image of a vessel and the Greek letters ΠΙΛΑΤΟ. Despite suggestions that the signet might have belonged to the most famous official in history, Pontius Pilate,

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Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years

Japanese Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka stands accused of image manipulation in ten papers over the past twenty years. Yamanaka received the Nobel Prize in 2012 for reprogramming mature cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, and heads the corresponding centre at Kyoto University, CiRA. We shall not go into the research

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It turns out that the so-called "Egyptian blue", the first synthetic pigment in history, is far more intricately made than previously thought

It turns out that the so-called "Egyptian blue", the first synthetic pigment in history, is far more intricately made than previously thought. The paint is not a homogeneous crystal: its blue crystals were fused with a glassy mass and several kinds of quartz particles, and so the

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The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Historical Museum work for a seventh season at the Gnezdilovo burial ground near Suzdal

The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the State Historical Museum are working for a seventh season at the Gnezdilovo burial ground near Suzdal. This year they found a wooden burial chamber measuring 3.1 by 2.7 metres, the roof of which had collapsed by

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If you, too, have ever heard reels-scholars speak of Neanderthal women as hostages to a narrow pelvis that condemned them to difficult births, this claim can now safely be moved to the category of refuted myths

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the Institute for Basic Science in Busan has digitised and reconstructed the pelvic bones of four Neanderthals of different ages and sexes: an infant of one and a half years from Dederiyeh Cave in Syria, a young woman from Sima

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One could speak of the antiquities of Bulgaria at length: the oldest worked gold in the world, the oldest solar calendar in Europe in the Magura Cave, Europe's largest Neolithic necropolis at Durankulak with the oldest stone building on the continent…

And now, near the village of Člebi in the Nymburk District of Central Bohemia, archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia have unearthed a monumental structure more than 6,500 years old, identified as one of the oldest ritual centres in Central Europe. The building is an almost circular enclosure

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The Achievements of Elon Musk Fly Over Yury Gagarin Square

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At Göbekli Tepe, the world's oldest megalithic temple complex, more than 11,500 years old, rectangular buildings have been found that may have served as dwellings

The site is being surveyed by means of geomagnetic mapping, ground-penetrating radar and lidar scanning. The head of the excavation reports that the new rectangular structures are concentrated chiefly in the eastern and southern parts of the hill and lie next to the already known circular monumental buildings with

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An analysis of several dozen Bronze Age vessels from the Qurayyah oasis in north-western Arabia may have identified the first branded goods in human history

The two-colour painted pottery of this region has long been known to specialists as "Midianite", and its origin remained a matter of dispute. The first batch of painted ware was made some 3,600 years ago, and its production continued uninterrupted for centuries, undergoing only modest change.

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Channel 4 Has Released a Documentary, The Great ADHD Myth?

The British television channel Channel 4 has released a documentary, The Great ADHD Myth? In it, the NHS psychiatrist Max Pemberton tries to establish whether ADHD is a genuine developmental disorder or a social construct, and whether children should be given psychiatric medication at all. Perhaps the best illustration of

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Call Drobyshevsky!

Call Drobyshevsky! Just joking, he has known all this for ages. A Japanese-Taiwanese research group has analysed a femur and a tibia from the bed of the Penghu Channel off Taiwan and determined that they belonged to Denisovans who lived about 45,000 years ago. But judging by the

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I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before…

I read a funny item in the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society of Great Britain: for forty years Ireland believed that the oldest bones of a domestic cow, dated to before 4000 BC, had been found at the Ferriter's Cove site in County Kerry, and that this was