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Dr. Paolo Visona (University of Kentucky) has unveiled an exciting discovery in the Dossone della Melia forest in south-central Calabria. Visona led a small team that identified a stone wall and earthwork extending over 2.7 km. The wall, originally accompanied by a deep ditch characteristic of a Roman fossa and agger defensive system, has now been conclusively identified as part of the structures built by the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus to contain the slave revolt leader Spartacus and his forces.
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Archaeologists identify Roman wall built to hold back rebel slave Spartacus and his army
Smoke billows over Tulsa, Oklahoma, during the Tulsa Race Massacre.
Alvin C. Krupnick Co./Library of Congress/AP
Victim of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre identified through DNA genealogy as WWI veteran
<em>Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. Photo by the </em>
Ucupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project
Ancient temple and theater 3,500 years older than Machu Picchu discovered in Peru
Neolithic passage grave at Karleby in Falbygden, Sweden.
Frederik Seersholm
Ancient DNA reveals possible cause of mysterious population collapse 5,000 years ago, scientists say
Artifacts recovered from the site at Christ Episcopal Church in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
WTKR
Tree removal at North Carolina church unearths centuries-old artifacts
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Gilligan et al
A prehistoric innovation marked a major shift in how humans dress, scientists say
A view shows a marble statue, uncovered by archaeologists at the site of the remains of the ancient city of Heraclea Sinitica, near the village of Rupite, Bulgaria, July 5, 2024. REUTERS/Spasiyana Sergieva
Spasiyana Sergieva/Reuters
Archaeologists find marble god statue in ancient Roman sewer
Washington, DC Re-opening of the National Museum of American History which has been renovated. President and Mrs. Bush attended ceremony. Here the Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired the National Anthem written by Francis Scott Key which flew over Baltimore Harbor. (Photo by Susan Biddle/The The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Opinion: This July 4th weekend, a different way to celebrate the history we share
Museum staff members prepare an artifact returned from U.S to Cambodia, before an official ceremony at the Cambodian National Museum in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Cambodia on Thursday officially organized a welcome ceremony for the arrival of more than a dozen rare Angkor era sculptures from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
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Cambodia welcomes the Met’s repatriation of centuries-old statues looted during past turmoil
The ruins of the ancient city of Termessos in Antalya Turkey.
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The hidden ‘eagle’s nest’ city that Alexander the Great couldn’t conquer
The scene, covered with calcium carbonate deposits, shows three human figures<strong> </strong>and a pig.
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A cave drawing of human figures and a pig is the world’s oldest known narrative art
Professor Bruno David (L) and Uncle Russell Mullett (R) pictured in the cave.
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12,000-year-old ritual passed down 500 generations may be world’s oldest
Statues depicting the high dignitary and scribe Nefer and his wife (Abusir, Egypt).
Martin Frouz/Archive of Czech Institute of Egyptology; Faculty of Arts; Charles University
Skeletons reveal what life was like for elite scribes in ancient Egypt
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Valentín Villaverde
Ancient bone could reveal how Neanderthals cared for a child with Down syndrome
After the Kyrenia's discovery off the north coast of Cyprus in 1965, a team led by the late marine archaeologist Michael Katzev excavated the wreck in the late ’60s.
Kyrenia Ship Excavation
Decades after the famed Kyrenia shipwreck’s discovery, researchers have a new estimate of when it sank
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Berger et al.
Discovery of a Bronze Age dye workshop reveals secrets of history’s most precious pigment