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Early modern text transcription revolutionized by ethical machine learning tools

Over recent years, digitization efforts have made sixteenth- and seventeenth-century printed books more widely available than ever before. Scholars are now able to search digital transcriptions for keywords without leaving their desks or having to visit physical archives...

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1,000-year-old carved wooden face found in Lake Lednica reveals early Slavic spirituality

A team of underwater archaeologists from Nicolaus Copernicus University has unearthed a 1,000-year-old carved wooden beam in Lake Lednica, western Poland. The object was excavated during an underwater archaeological excavation and offers valuable insights into early medieval Slavic spiritual practices...

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"Zionism, actually existing Zionism, is possibly the most concentrated distillation of colonial racism and state excess in the contemporary world. Bar none. It’s not just that it’s the inheritor of Europe’s colonial project in its most self-righteous form. It’s also the contemporary vestige of state racism and power in the kind of unrestrained form that elsewhere had to be disavowed. A proud holdover of what everyone else in the West had to pretend not to like anymore. A state racism and power that frees itself from any self-repressive mechanisms, does away with any pretense or even hypocrisy, and wades directly into the unbridled cruelty and sadism that the bourgeois Western political order had to at least pretend it had overcome. Zionism shouts its genocidal intentions from the rooftops; its state ministers openly call for the elimination of everything that stands in their way; its supporters all but explicitly declare that the mass killing of children is necessary for the state’s survival and they will make no apologies. This is the allure of Zionism today. The more it descends into its own suicidal spiral of nihilistic hysterical obliteration, the more it openly celebrates its sadism and will to obliterate, the more it offers a vision of the future for those not interested in co-habiting the planet with what they deem are its subhuman surplus populations. In other words, the allure of Zionism to the fascist new right is that it offers a model of a historical corrective to what they feel has been a long surrender in which Western or white supremacy has been afraid to speak its name. They want to be able to speak its name; they want to throw a “sieg hiel” at a political rally and not have to pretend it’s an autistic gesture of affection. It’s in this sense that Zionism is at once both the past and future of the European racial-colonial project."

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600-year-old amethyst jewel found in Polish castle moat reveals secrets of medieval nobility

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered a unique and elegantly crafted jewel from the moat of the medieval Castle Kolno, once situated along a ducal border. The silver setting, adorned with a vibrant amethyst and finished with fire gilding, likely belonged to a knight or noble...

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Ancient DNA study reveals Ötzi the Iceman’s unique ancestry and the genetic legacy of his Alpine homeland

A recent paleogenomic study has revealed incredible genetic continuity and subtle social interactions among prehistoric populations in the Eastern Italian Alps that once sheltered Ötzi the Iceman. Published in Nature Communications, the study analyzed the genomes of 47 individuals...

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Lost Byzantine town of Tharais rediscovered in southern Jordan

After decades of research and field surveys, archaeologists have finally discovered the ancient Byzantine town of Tharais in southern Jordan. This find promises to reveal new insights into early Christian communities in the region...

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The mystery of Rennes-le-Château and the secrets of Abbé Saunière’s fortune

For over a hundred years, the small hilltop village of Rennes-le-Château in southern France has been the subject of fascination. Historians, treasure hunters, and conspiracy theorists alike have been drawn to its story, centered around the strange and compelling life of Abbé Bérenger Saunière...

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Lost medieval tale The Song of Wade decoded by Cambridge scholars solving 130-year-old Chaucerian mystery

A literary enigma that has puzzled scholars for more than a century might have finally been unraveled. Researchers at Cambridge University have reinterpreted a fragment of the lost medieval poem known as The Song of Wade, gaining new insight into its meaning...

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The hula hoop became a craze in the late 1950s, but the woman who gave it its name was never given credit. Here's @BBCNews's story about Joan Anderson, who has died at age 101.

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Medieval Hungarians continued eating horsemeat for centuries despite Christian influence, new study reveals

A recent archaeological study is rewriting our understanding of medieval food and the Christian influence on the foodways of Europe...

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Ancient elk petroglyphs in Mongolia show 12,000-year shift from realism to wolf-like symbols

A new study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, reveals an astonishing transformation in elk images in 12,000 years of Altai rock art in western Mongolia. Once drawn in realistic detail, elk gradually evolved into stylized, nearly unrecognizable wolf-like figures...
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New blog post from us! This one's from the National Trust for Scotland https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/nature-beauty-and-heritage-for-everyone-the-archives-of-the-national-trust-for-scotland/

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Antikythera shipwreck reveals ancient shipbuilding secrets in 2025 excavation

The 2025 excavation season at the legendary Antikythera shipwreck unearthed significant new discoveries, giving a glimpse into ancient shipbuilding, trade, and life at sea in the Mediterranean. One of the most dramatic recoveries was a still-connected set of hull fragments...

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Rural rituals and astral burials shaped ancient Egyptian religion and the myths of Isis and Osiris

In southern Egypt’s Nile Valley, a new study of the ancient Adaïma cemetery is reshaping the tale of Egyptian religion and state ideology’s origins...

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Rare 4,000-year-old Egyptian handprint discovered on a "soul house."

@CBSNews explains that a soul house is "a clay model resembling a building that can be traced to burials in ancient Egypt."

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Medieval leather treasures unearthed in Oslo reveal shoes, bags, and daily life 700 years ago

Archaeologists excavating Oslo’s historic neighborhood of Bjørvika have uncovered a trove of medieval leather artifacts—over 2,900 pieces, including hundreds of beautifully preserved shoes, bags, and knife sheaths...

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4,500-year-old dog tooth–adorned bags unearthed in Germany reveal burial practices of Neolithic elites

Archaeological excavations near the German village of Krauschwitz in Saxony-Anhalt have uncovered a remarkable glimpse into ancient life: beautifully decorated bags—likely used as baby carriers—buried alongside women of the Corded Ware culture some 4,500 years ago...

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Mad emperor Caligula had surprising medical knowledge, new research reveals from ancient Roman texts

Emperor Caligula is best known for his cruelty and eccentricities. But a new article announces a surprising element of the notorious emperor: his apparent familiarity with ancient medicine, in particular the use of hellebore, an active herb linked with the Greek city of Antikyra...

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11,000-year-old feast in Iran’s Zagros Mountains reveals long-distance animal transport and early Neolithic social rituals

Archaeologists have uncovered new evidence that ancient human communities in western Iran, over 11,000 years ago, were engaging in grand feasting rituals with wild animals transported from far-off places, well before the dawn of agriculture...

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1,600-year-old tomb of Caracol’s founding king Te K’ab Chaak unearthed in Belize jungle

Archaeologists from the University of Houston have discovered the royal tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler and founder of the powerful Maya city of Caracol, in Belize’s dense jungles. This tomb, dated to around 350 CE...

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17th-century Gullberg’s fortress in Gothenburg brought to life through 3D reconstruction

After seven years of archaeological investigation, Arkeologerna has published a 3D reconstruction of Gullberg’s Fäste, a 17th-century fortress that once stood on Gothenburg’s Gullberget Hill...

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Neanderthals turned cave lion bones into multifunctional tools 130,000 years ago, study reveals

A recent discovery in Belgium’s Scladina Cave has unveiled the oldest known multi-purpose tools made from the bones of a cave lion, offering evidence of Neanderthal resourcefulness and intelligence...

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Donkey sacrifice from 4,500 years ago in ancient Gath reveals early Canaan–Egypt trade

Archaeologists have unearthed a discovery in central Israel that sheds light on ancient Canaan and Egypt’s cultural and economic relations from about 4,500 years ago. Four complete skeletons of young female donkeys were found buried beneath the floors of simple domestic houses in Tell es-Safi...

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300,000-year-old wooden tools found in China reveal early humans’ plant-based diet and cognitive abilities in East Asia

An important cache of 35 wooden tools, dated at an estimated 300,000 years ago, has been unearthed at the Gantangqing site in Yunnan Province, southwest China. This discovery sheds new light on the technological progress and plant subsistence behaviors of early hominins in East Asia...

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