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Everything We Know About the 2,300-Year-Old Beer Found Inside an Ancient Tomb
When archaeologists raid ancient tombs, they usually uncover the trinkets and tchotchkes people hoped to carry with them into the afterlife.
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Photo: Nicholas Skopal, et al. / Antiquity Archaeologists Made a Disturbing Discovery Inside These Massive Stone Jars
I’m sure they smelled great.
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Photo: D-Keine / Getty Images Archaeologists Found Hundreds of Mass Graves So Large They Can Be Seen From Space
The reason people were buried with their animals nearby is the same reason pharaohs were entombed alongside treasures.
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Anadolu/Contributor/Getty Images Archaeologists Discovered a Lost Underwater Graveyard in a Tiny Stretch of Sea
The collection of shipwrecks includes Roman cargo ships, stealthy Spanish gunboats, WWII relics, and one very important box of combs.
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Photo: DOUGBERRY / Getty Images Archaeologists Just Found Out What Neanderthal Kids Did When They Were Bored
Bicycles and video games hadn’t been invented yet, after all.
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Mikroman6/Getty Images What Archaeologists Found in That Strange Sarcophagus Sealed With Molten Lead
Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a Roman sarcophagus that has remained untouched for roughly 1,700 years.
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Not among the skeletons in question. Photo: tuulimaa / Getty Images Rigid Gender Roles Are a Lie. Just Ask These 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons.
There are men around today who have a more primitive view of gender roles than people from 7,000 years ago.
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What is it? Photo: J J Osuna Caballero / Getty Images Is This 2,000-Year-Old Artifact Actually a Battery?
The battery may have been designed to visibly corrode written prayers.
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Photo: Ahmed Boug et al./Communications Earth & Environment What the Cheetah Mummies Found in Arabian Caves Tell Us About Ancient Predators
The caves don’t bring cheetahs back, but they do complicate the idea that the predators disappeared without a trace.
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