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A soapstone vessel filled with hundreds of Late Antique gold coins was found at the site of Como, Italy's former Cressoni Theater.
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A 9,000-year-old hunting shrine in the deserts of southeastern Jordan is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022.
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23,000-year-old human footprints uncovered in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021.
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A 6th-century Lombard warrior buried in northern Italy appears to have worn a knife as a prosthetic weapon in place of his forearm, which had been amputated
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Cleaning of the interior of Luxor’s Temple of Esna has revealed images of 46 birds arranged in two rows.
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A well-preserved road made of oak logs dating to the 1200s has been uncovered by archaeologists in the center of Berlin.
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Traces of a 5th-century Byzantine basilica were spotted under the waters of Turkey’s Lake Iznik during a helicopter survey.
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A 9,000-year-old hunting shrine in the deserts of southeastern Jordan is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022.
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Massive reliefs of camels and wild donkeys carved into a cliffside in Saudi Arabia, which were recently dated to the mid-6th millennium B.C., are one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021.
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From the Archives: A man scraping down plaster on the walls of his home in Chajul, Guatemala, inadvertently uncovered a series of murals that had been painted by his Ixil Maya ancestors in the years directly after the Spanish conquest.
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Excavations of a 4th-century B.C. mound in western Russia uncovered the remains of four female Scythian warriors buried with horse tackle and weapons.
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From the Archives: 49 footprints, which were left nearly a million years ago by a small group of hominins walking along an English coastal estuary 140 miles northeast of London, are some of the oldest ever discovered outside of Africa.
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The remains of a knight who sustained jousting injuries were unearthed among some 2,500 skeletons at England's Hereford Cathedral.
#TBT
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Two 3,500-year-old clay pig figurines, unearthed in a house at a Bronze Age hillfort in Poland, were probably either toys or objects used in sacred rituals.
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Two baby boys, whose bodies were covered in red ochre and buried under a mammoth bone about 31,000 years ago in what is now northeastern Austria, are the earliest known identical twins.
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From the Archives: A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins was unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo.
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From the Archives: A man scraping down plaster on the walls of his home in Chajul, Guatemala, inadvertently uncovered a series of murals that had been painted by his Ixil Maya ancestors in the years directly after the Spanish conquest.
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Researchers have reconstructed the face of a young Neanderthal man who is thought to have lived in Doggerland, the now-submerged region between the United Kingdom and continental Europe between an estimated 50,000 and 70,000 years ago.
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In eastern Serbia, strip miners unearthed a well-preserved flat-bottomed ship, likely dating to the Roman period, that was built for navigating the shallow waters of what was once a tributary of the Danube.
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A Buddhist temple in northwest Pakistan dating to at least as early as the end of the second century B.C. is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022.
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From the Archives: A silver ring with a gem engraved with the word “Allah” was found in a Viking-era woman’s grave in Sweden.
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Two baby boys, whose bodies were covered in red ochre and buried under a mammoth bone about 31,000 years ago in what is now northeastern Austria, are the earliest known identical twins.
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The construction of a railway over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, turned up more than 30 shipwrecks from the Byzantine era.
#TBT
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Archaeologists have uncovered a bas-relief sculpture of a golden eagle in the floor of the Aztec chapel dedicated to Huitzilopochtli at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City.
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A 30,000-year-old Venus figurine discovered in the Wachau region of Austria in 1908 was likely carved from oolitic limestone from the Lake Garda region of northern Italy, new research suggests.
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A nine-inch-tall clay pot filled with more than 1,200 Roman coins minted during the reign of the emperor Constantine (A.D. 306–337) has been discovered in northern Switzerland by a metal detectorist.
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Human footprints found in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park have been dated to 23,000 years ago, well before the end of the last ice age when overland migration routes became navigable.
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Excavations of a 4th-century B.C. mound in western Russia uncovered the remains of four female
#Scythian
warriors buried with horse tackle and weapons. One of the women was interred wearing a golden crown.
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Brightly colored tiles were uncovered during excavations in advance of restoration of England’s Bath Abbey.
#FBF
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: The receding waters of the Tigris River in Iraqi Kurdistan have exposed the remains of a 3,400-year-old palace, which might be the site of Zahiku, an ancient city that was part of the Mitanni Empire.
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DNA analysis has linked the remains of two Viking men who died some 1,000 years ago. The remains of one man, who died in his early 20s from head wounds, were found in a mass grave in Oxford, England, while his relative's remains were unearthed in Denmark.
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The construction of a railway over the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey, turned up more than 30 shipwrecks from the Byzantine era.
#TBT
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Dating of birch tar identified recently on a horned helmet discovered in 1942 in a peat pit in Denmark indicates that the helmet was deposited in the bog around 900 B.C., some 1,500 years before the Viking Age with which it has long been associated.
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In the deserts of southeastern Jordan around 9,000 years ago, hunters erected a stone shrine that is one of the earliest ritual structures ever unearthed.
#archaeology
#jordan
#neolithic
#desert
#shrine
#hunting
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From the Archives: Discovered in Germany, "Red Franz" is one of dozens of bog bodies from northwestern Europe that provide a direct look at life in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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From the Archives: A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins was unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo.
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From the Archives: Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a medieval fortress on an island in a Siberian lake.
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Brightly colored tiles were uncovered during excavations in advance of restoration of England’s Bath Abbey.
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Some archaeologists now believe that the 11,000-year-old stone circles at Göbekli Tepe in modern Turkey, with carved T-shaped limestone pillars, may have been built by Ice Age hunters resisting the dramatic shift to a settled agricultural way of life.
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From the Archives: A 2,500-year-old trilingual inscription found at the Bisitun Pass in Iran served as a kind of Rosetta Stone for cuneiform, helping archaeologists to decipher the world’s oldest writing.
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Excavations at Bath Abbey in England have uncovered 700-year-old tile floors, which were once part of a Norman cathedral at the site.
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A man looking for mushrooms after a bout of rain has discovered a 3,300-year-old bronze sword in northeastern Czech Republic.
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A trackway left behind by a small adult and a toddler-aged child more than 10,000 years ago has been found in New Mexico's White Sands National Park.
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A newly cleaned section of the ceiling of Egypt’s Temple of Esna includes depictions of the 12 zodiac signs. The scorpion is shown here, before and after cleaning.
#archaeology
#egypt
#esna
#zodiac
(Ahmed Amin, Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities)
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The discovery of 4,500-year-old papyri at an ancient port on the Red Sea is offering archaeologists unprecedented details about the highly skilled workers who transported materials to build Egypt’s Great Pyramid at Giza.
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A jar containing 2,500-year-old eggs was discovered in a tomb in eastern China’s Jiangsu province.
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(ImagineChina)
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A well-preserved ancient arrow thought to date to between A.D. 300 and 600 that features an iron arrowhead and feather fletching has been recovered from a glacier in southern Norway.
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Using lidar, researchers have identified more than 1,000 Maya settlements across some 650 square miles of northern Guatemala’s Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin.
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A pair of thigh-high leather boots were found on the skeleton of a man who died wearing them some 500 years ago near the Thames River in southeast London.
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Archaeologists recovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe that was found resting on the bottom of Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota.
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The Nebra Sky Disc, pictured here, dates back almost 4,000 years and is the world’s oldest representation of a specific astronomical phenomenon.
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An elephant sculpture thought to date to the 3rd century B.C. was unearthed on a riverbank in eastern India.
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A boulder inscribed with Chinese characters, which was found on the Indonesian island of Serutu, records Kublai Khan’s failed invasion of the Singhasari Kingdom on Java in A.D. 1293.
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A mass grave of Crusaders likely dating to 1253, which was unearthed near Saint Louis Castle in Sidon, Lebanon, is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021.
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A 3,000-year-old pair of trousers discovered in a grave in Yanghai cemetery, which is located in n.w. China’s Turfan Basin—one of the world's oldest known pairs—were crafted from yarn made from coarse wool with a combination of three weaving techniques.
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From the Archives: 49 footprints, which were left nearly a million years ago by a small group of hominins walking along an English coastal estuary 140 miles northeast of London, are some of the oldest ever discovered outside of Africa.
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New dating of a mosaic floor at a villa in Gloucestershire to the mid-5th century A.D. indicates that some people continued Romanized living even after the end of Roman rule in Britain.
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In this issue’s Around the World: A 45,500-year-old cave painting of a warty pig discovered on the Indonesian island of
#Sulawesi
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A 4th-century B.C. Etruscan underground tomb uncovered on the island of Corsica contained a mirror, collapsed ceremonial furniture, and various drinking vessels.
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Traces of two shipwrecks, including one Roman vessel that went down some 1,700 years ago, have been discovered off the coast of Israel, near the site of the ancient port of Caesarea.
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In Australia’s West Arnhem Land, archaeologists and Aboriginal Traditional Owners have identified a previously unknown, 10,000-year-old rock art style with supernatural elements that depicts interactions between humans and wild animals such as snakes.
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A farmer in northeastern Egypt has discovered a 2,600-year-old stela bearing an imaged of a winged sun disk, which is sometimes associated with the sun god Ra, a cartouche of the pharaoh Apries, and 15 lines of hieroglyphic writing.
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At Roman public baths, men and women of most social classes gathered to exercise. While men wrestled, ran, boxed, and lifted weights, women swam and played ball games and a hoop-rolling game called trochus.
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From the Archives: The Uffington White Horse, which is carved into the chalk of an English hillside and stretches 360 feet from head to tail, is the only prehistoric geoglyph known in Europe.
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A ring made of gold and amethyst possibly dating back to the third century A.D. has been discovered in what is now central Israel, about 500 feet away from a seventh-century warehouse at one of the largest known Byzantine wine production sites.
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Well-Preserved Bronze Age Sword Discovered in Germany
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A cache of nearly 7,000 silver coins and four gold ones, which range in date from the second century through the sixteenth century and may have been buried during the Ottoman attack of 1526, has been discovered in a broken vessel in central Hungary.
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Researchers have detected DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes Black Death, in the teeth of people buried in a fourteenth-century parish cemetery and friary in Cambridge and in the nearby village of Clopton.
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A study that sequenced the genomes of 273 horses who lived in Eurasia as early as 50,000 years ago and compared them to the genomes of modern domestic horses suggests that horses were first domesticated in the Pontic-Caspian steppes some 4,000 years ago.
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Archaeologists looking for a Roman villa in western Germany unearthed a Soviet spy radio—manufactured in 1987—that had been sealed in a metal box and hidden just a few miles away from a nuclear research center and military air base.
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A burial of a man and woman in the Shanxi Province dating to the Northern Wei Dynasty (A.D. 386–534) is the first tomb with a couple embracing to be found in China.
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Excavations at England’s Tintagel Castle, the legendary home of King Arthur, have uncovered remains of a large post-Roman settlement that call into question the accepted vision of Britain’s Dark Ages.
#TBT
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A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins was unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo
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A 2,500-year-old mural at Calakmul, a Maya site located on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is the oldest-known depiction of salt being sold in a Maya marketplace.
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Some archaeologists now believe that the 11,000-year-old stone circles at Göbekli Tepe in modern Turkey may have been built by Ice Age hunters resisting the dramatic shift to a settled agricultural way of life.
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#TBT
: Lindow Man, who lived in the first century A.D. and was discovered in a bog called Lindow Moss in northwest England, had just eaten a grilled bran pancake when he was beaten and strangled to death.
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From the Archives: A Maya city in Mexico's Campeche state was rediscovered with the help of aerial photographs.
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A medieval tunnel system has been discovered in southern Wales by a team of technicians who were moving an electrical pole.
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Proof of match fixing in Roman-era Egypt was discovered on a papyrus fragment detailing an A.D. 267 contract between two wrestlers, stipulating that one "must fall three times and yield," for which he would be paid 3,800 drachmas.
#TBT
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The 5th-century B.C. tomb of a Celtic prince discovered in France contained exquisite examples of metallurgy and great wealth, including an ornate belt embroidered with fine silver threads and a gold torc.
#TBT
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New dating of a mosaic floor at a villa in Gloucestershire to the mid-5th century A.D. indicates that some people continued Romanized living even after the end of Roman rule in Britain.
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At a Roman villa buried by Vesuvius, archaeologists and conservators have uncovered and cleaned dining room walls that are completely covered in frescoes.
#FBF
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From the Archives: Archaeologists in Siberia discovered remains of a juvenile mammoth that had been preserved in permafrost for at least 10,000 years, and may have been intentionally stashed by hunters for cold storage.
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The largest Viking DNA study ever conducted is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2020. Results from analyses of more than 400 skeletons show that the
#Vikings
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Nearly 200 amphoras containing a wide range of products, including olives, dates, fish, and grapes, have been recovered from a ship that sank off the coast of Israel between the mid-7th and mid-8th century A.D.
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The grave of England’s vilified monarch Richard III—which was located in Leicester in 2012, more than 500 years after his death—is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of the Decade.
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TBT: A 4,000-year-old mudbrick temple that still stands in northern Sudan once served as the religious center of the ancient Nubian capital city of Kerma.
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A Buddhist temple in northwest Pakistan dating to at least as early as the end of the second century B.C. is one of ARCHAEOLOGY’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2022.
#archaeology
#pakistan
#buddhism
#temple
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#TBT
: Lindow Man, who lived in the first century A.D. and was discovered in a bog called Lindow Moss in northwest England, had just eaten a grilled bran pancake when he was beaten and strangled to death.
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Fermenting wool fibers before dyeing them might have been the technique used to produce the vibrant colors of the Pazyryk Carpet, which was buried almost 2,500 years ago with a member of a nomadic Scythian people.
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A 2,550-year-old inscription depicting Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, holding a scepter, along with a snake, a flower, and the moon, has been discovered on a piece of basalt in the Hail region of northern Saudia Arabia.
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At a luxurious villa north of Pompeii, archaeologists uncovered an elaborately decorated four-wheeled chariot that is the first such vehicle ever excavated in the Roman world.
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A ring with an Arabic inscription "To Allah" has been Id'ed in a Viking grave in Sweden
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The remains of a knight who sustained jousting injuries were unearthed among some 2,500 skeletons at England's Hereford Cathedral.
#TBT
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At Zakros on the eastern coast of Crete, Minoan traders built a large complex of storage rooms, banquet halls, courtyards, and pools some 3,500 years ago. Among the luxury goods archaeologists have found there is this bull’s head rhyton.
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Using polarizing photographic filters, researchers have revealed the original vibrance of the fading colors on a painted stone sculpture of an Iberian woman on a throne that dates to the 4th century B.C.
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Two 3,500-year-old clay pig figurines, unearthed in a house at a Bronze Age hillfort in Poland, were probably either toys or objects used in sacred rituals.
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Traces of a 6,000-year-old settlement have been discovered off the coast of Croatia. Diving on the site, the researchers found stone walls that once surrounded the settlement, tools, ceramics, and flint knives.
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A piece of fabric found in a Highland peat bog in the early 1980s has now been determined to be the oldest example of true tartan ever located in Scotland.
#archaeology
#scotland
#highlands
#tartan
(Alan Richardson Pix-AR)
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