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Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...

One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

A colorful, revealing visit with the famous cartoonist and counterculture icon at his home in the South of France ...

New research finds that at least four individuals who died in the eruption were wearing woolen tunics and cloaks, which ...

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For centuries, hieroglyphs have helped historians piece together the beliefs, rituals, and everyday lives of ancient ...

Victims at Pompeii wore heavy tunics and woollen cloaks as they fled rocky volcanic fragments and gas thrown into the air, ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...