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NC bill threatens historic coastal areas, including a Native American burial site
Raleigh News and Observer via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoMore than 2,000 artifacts were found, including 11 sites that archaeologists believe contain human...
Archaeology shows how ancient African societies managed pandemics
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoNow there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long studied diseases in past populations. To do so, they...
Lake George reinterment blessing ceremony
FOX 23 News Albany· 10 hours agoA “Hallowing of the Ground” ceremony took place at Battlefield Park in Lake George on Friday. It was in honor of the 44 human remains discovered in 2019,...
‘Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors’ Review: An Unearthed Army on Netflix
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoSome of the questions remain open: Who, for instance, was the very prominent warrior buried in a...
Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding
CNN via AOL· 3 days agoA new analysis of ancient DNA from the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico challenges...
Work at Indianapolis' first cemetery raises concerns about fate of unmarked Black graves
IndyStar | The Indianapolis Star via Yahoo News· 3 days agoBut first and foremost it was a cemetery ― four to be exact. Shortly after Indianapolis was platted,...
The original occupant of an Egyptian sarcophagus was unknown. Then a tiny ornament revealed a very...
CNN via AOL· 5 days agoA sarcophagus discovered in 2009 in the burial chamber of an Egyptian high priest was originally...
Greek archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old stone building on hill earmarked for new airport | CNN
CNN.com· 22 hours agoA big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling...
DNA reveals mystery of Maya human sacrifice
Boing Boing· 3 days agoThe popular imagination holds that the ancient Maya sacrificed only young women and girls at their temples in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. "There were two big moments of surprise here," said ...
Study: Three skulls of medieval Viking women were deliberately elongated
Ars Technica· 4 days agoGerman archaeologists discovered that the skulls of three medieval Viking women found on the Swedish...
