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Archaeologists Discover Lost Ancient Language on Mysterious Ritual Tablet
An unknown Indo-European language was discovered on a tablet with cultic ritual links in the long-lost capital of the Hittite Empire in Turkey.
Archaeologists Have Unearthed the Remains of a Lost Ancient Roman City
The mysterious city, which has not been identified, is the oldest discovered in Spain's Iberian Peninsula.
Archaeologists Found an Ancient 'Entrance to the Underworld' Under a Church In Mexico
Catholic historian Francisco de Burgoa wrote of an ancient underground temple that was closed up by Spanish colonizers. Now, it's been found.
Archaeologists Discover Ancient 'Portal to the Underworld' In Cave Containing Skulls, Weapons
A cave in Israel "has all the cultic and physical elements necessary to serve as a possible portal to the underworld" and was used for necromancy.
Photos Of Samoa’s Fa’afafine Community That Reshape Coloniser Art
“My work is based on history, and it's about rewriting history...rather than relying on the narratives of the Empire.”
Archaeologists Keep Unearthing Mysterious 'Giant' Prehistoric Hand Tools
"There's no evidence that people at this time had much bigger hands... which makes it hard to imagine how the tool could have been easily handled."
2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated From a Barn in Massachusetts
The NABU Network was an obscure, forgotten part of Canadian tech history—until the day the internet noticed that thousands of NABU machines were being sold on eBay at rock-bottom prices.
Archaeologists Discover World's Oldest Neanderthal Cave Engravings
The mysterious 57,000-year-old designs open up a new window into the lives and culture of our ancestors.
Nuns Behaving Badly
Craig A. Monson studies forgotten nuns, like the one who changed her name to Lesbia or the convent that set their own cloister down.
Jacking Off Has Evolutionary Benefits Going Back 40 Million Years, Study Says
Masturbation is an "ancient trait" in the world of primates, including humans, according to a study that looked at how self-pleasure helped us evolve.
Scientists Discover Ancient 'Lost World' That Rewrites History of Life on Earth
The remains of a "lost world" of ancient organisms that are likely ancestors to all plants and animals, including humans, have finally been detected.
Archaeologists Discover Remnant of Lost Village Buried Under the Ocean for 600 Years
The main church of Rungholt, a Medieval settlement that has been called the “Atlantis of the North Sea” because it was wiped out in a flood, has been found.