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Archaeologists in Uzbekistan have uncovered 80,000-year-old arrowheads, possibly crafted by Neanderthals.

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When Israeli President Isaac Herzog lands in Addis Ababa, he does not step into unfamiliar ground. He arrives in a country whose story has, for centuries, brushed against that of his own people, in ...

Explore mysterious “out-of-place” artifacts inside the Cairo Museum, including precision-cut granite boxes, tube drill holes, ...

More than 4,000 years before modern highways and petroleum refineries, Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia were engineering materials in ways that closely resemble advanced asphalt technology, according ...

Two small pieces of animal hide recovered from an ancient dwelling place within a cave in Oregon could represent the earliest known evidence of sewing among America’s early inhabitants. The remarkably ...

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