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In an Iron Age burial ground surrounded by towering pines, rock fragments from the past have surfaced, and the faintly ...

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

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The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

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“I worked really carefully because when you find writing, that’s always an exciting thing in the ancient world,” said Sullivan. “I knew it was important. I certainly did not have any idea ...

including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural remains, may provide a wealth of knowledge about this Middle Bronze Age city and shed light on the more ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

New genetic evidence traces the roots of English, Sanskrit, and hundreds of other languages to a group of hunter-gatherers in ...

As AI tools make their way into the workplace, it may already be time to worry that people are losing their own smarts and skills, relying on the tech to do the heavy intellectual lifting for them.