AI cracks mystery of ancient Roman board game | The Jerusalem Post

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“This is the first time that AI-driven simulated play has been used in concert with archaeological methods to identify a board game,” Crist concluded.

Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

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Locating al-Qadisiyyah: mapping Iraq's most famous early Islamic conquest site - Volume 99 Issue 403

Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538 | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

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Detecting social differences in diet in medieval towns: isotopic evidence from Cambridge, England, c. AD 940–1538

Nutritional deficiency and ecological stress in the Middle to Final western Jōmon | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

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Nutritional deficiency and ecological stress in the Middle to Final western Jōmon - Volume 98 Issue 399

Véronique Chankowski, Parasites du dieu. Comptables, financiers et commerçants dans la Délos hellénistique, Athènes, École française d’Athènes, 2020, 464 p. | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge Core

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Véronique Chankowski, Parasites du dieu. Comptables, financiers et commerçants dans la Délos hellénistique, Athènes, École française d’Athènes, 2020, 464 p. - Volume 80 Issue 3

Iron Age massacre targeted women and children, new research reveals

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New research has revealed that women and children were deliberately targeted in one of the largest prehistoric mass killings discovered in Europe.

Bronze Wing - Virtual Museum

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This wing from a statuette has been made from an alloy of lead and bronze. It is likely of 1st century AD date.

Brüder Grimm: Ein Herz und eine Seele | BR.de

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Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm stammen aus einer kinderreichen, durch den frühen Tod des Vaters von Armut bedrohten Familie. Gemeinsam besuchten sie das Lyzeum, sammelten sie Märchen, schufen sie das "Deutsche Wörterbuch".

Klassiker der Weltliteratur: Die Brüder Grimm - hier anschauen

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Wie kam die Schildkröte auf den Kopf des Aischylos? Wie wurden Charles Dickens Romane zuerst publiziert? Von wem und warum wurde schon früh in der Literatur der 'Cliffhänger' erfunden, also das hochdramatische abgebrochene Ende einer Geschichte? Warum war der 16. Juni 1904, der 'Bloomsday', für James Joyce so wichtig? Antworten auf diese und viele, viele andere Fragen erhalten Sie in der Sendereihe 'Klassiker der Weltliteratur'. Hier werden Autoren von Homer bis Franz Kafka, von Dostojewski bis Molière und von Jane Austen bis Raymond Chandler vorgestellt werden. Der Moderator dieser Sendereihe ist der Schriftsteller Tilman Spengler, der den Zuschauern die Autoren aus rund 2.500 Jahren und ihre wichtigsten literarischen Werke näherbringt.

Gerade auf LeMO gesehen: LeMO Das lebendige Museum Online

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Das Online-Portal zur deutschen Geschichte vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute. Epochendarstellung mit Sammlungsobjekten, Foto-, Audio- und Filmdokumenten, Biografien, Chroniken, Zeitzeugen.

Signs on Stone Age objects: Precursor to written language dates back 40,000 years

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Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis by linguist Christian Bentz at Saarland University and archaeologist Ewa Dutkiewicz at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) in Berlin, these sign sequences have the same level of complexity and information density as the earliest proto-cuneiform script that emerged tens of thousands of years later, around 3,000 B.C.E.

Excavating Andersson: unlocking forgotten treasures in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA), Stockholm | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

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Excavating Andersson: unlocking forgotten treasures in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA), Stockholm

Ancient art could hold clues to the origins of written language

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Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests

Schachboxen beim Schachgipfel | Perlen vom Bodensee

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Was die Organisatoren bei den Deutschen Meisterschaften 2025 in München nicht einmal versucht haben, soll beim Schachgipfel 2026 Teil des Konzepts sein: Die Veranstaltung öffnen, ihr Farbe geben…

Historici als beleidsadviseurs: toegepaste geschiedenis wint aan belang | EOS Wetenschap

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Hadden er tijdens de coronacrisis ook geschiedkundigen moeten plaatsnemen in de nationale expertencommissies? Als het van sommige historici afhangt, is het a...

3,500 years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes | bioRxiv

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Sheeppox virus (SPPV; Capripoxvirus sheeppox) is a major livestock pathogen which causes economic hardship in the Global South through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep. The disease is thought to have affected Eurasian societies for millennia, with descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded since Roman antiquity. Here we report the recovery of 21 novel ancient SPPV genomes spanning the Bronze Age period in the Eurasian steppes (~1,700 BCE) to the Early Modern period in Western Europe. Our dataset includes multiple genomes obtained from medieval parchment manuscripts, demonstrating that skin-based documents represent an under-recognized source of pathogen genomes from the past. Using this temporal genomic dataset, we estimate that major capripoxvirus lineages diverged ~11,500-3,700 years ago, depending on tree topology and mutation model, and overlapping known major translocations and bio-cultural developments in sheep. Our dataset supports SPPV representing the earliest split from the lineage leading to goatpox virus and lumpy skin disease virus (Capripoxvirus goatpox and Capripoxvirus lumpyskinpox). We determine that known gene inactivation events within SPPV and goatpox virus are also found in our earliest SPPV genomes and therefore occurred rapidly following its divergence. Together, these findings reveal that the food security of Eurasian communities have been threatened by sheeppox for over 3,700 years, and provide new temporal insights to the genomic evolution and potential host adaptation of sheeppox virus. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Taighde Éireann - Research Ireland, ror.org/010t7sr36, 21/PATH-S/9515(T) European Research Council, ror.org/0472cxd90

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Adventures in Archaeological Science

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Adventures in Archaeological Science Coloring Book Created by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Edited by Christina Warinner and Jessica Hendy, wit…

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study

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Medieval teeth reveal how childhood hunger echoes through generations.

Virtual Anthropology and the Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database |

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The Subadult Virtual Anthropology Database (SVAD) is a unique repository of standardized data collected from digital images (e.g., CT scans, conventional

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, CA.

News - Hunter-Gatherer Childcare Studied - Archaeology Magazine

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CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Cambridge, evolutionary anthropologist Nikhil Chaudhary […]

Small Adults or Big Kids?: Exploring Archaeological and Bioarcheological Approaches to Adolescence | Berghahn Books

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Arqueólogo sugiere que las momias de Chinchorro fueron creadas por madres en duelo, transformando el dolor en arteterapia hace 7.000 años

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Una cultura olvidada del desierto chileno convirtió la muerte infantil en una forma de permanencia hecha a mano.

Reflections on the Ethics of Working with Infants from Museum Contexts

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I have been reflecting on the work that I have been doing, particularly within museum contexts. There has been a recent increase in interest in the study of the ethics of bioarchaeological practice…

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour

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In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women and children, challenging views of prehistoric violence.

Forgotten histories: what fetal and baby remains in medical collections tell us about inequality

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Our new analysis of the skeletal remains and records of babies in a NZ museum collection shows they were largely born to unmarried mothers or lower-class families.

Brú na Bóinne: Megalithic tomb discovered in Meath

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Two burial chambers, six kerbstones and two suspected satellite tombs are found in County Meath.

Archaeologists discover bread that predates agriculture by 4,000 years

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At an archaeological site in northeastern Jordan, researchers have discovered the charred remains of a flatbread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago. It is the oldest direct evidence of bread found to date, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years. The findings suggest that bread production based on wild cereals may have encouraged hunter-gatherers to cultivate cereals, and thus contributed to the agricultural revolution in the Neolithic period.

A 43,900-year-old cave painting is the oldest story ever recorded

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Archaeologists say it might also contain the oldest known religious images.

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