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Mycenaean Gold Ornaments Reveal Surprising Northern European Solar Symbols
18+ hour, 16+ min ago (509+ words) The artifacts were unearthed in two separate Late Bronze Age cemeteries in the Livatho region of southwest Cephalonia. Both objects are crafted from hammered gold and date to the post-palatial Mycenaean period, a time marked by political fragmentation but expanding…...
Ancient Cave Paintings in Texas Are Thousands of Years Older Than Expected, New Study Reveals
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (751+ words) The findings come from a large interdisciplinary study led by Dr. Carolyn E. Boyd of Texas State University, published in Science Advances. The research redefines what is known about early ritual art in North America and challenges outdated assumptions about the…...
Medieval Islamic Burials in a Neolithic Giant: DNA Reveals the Afterlife of Spain’s Menga Dolmen
1+ week, 1+ day ago (873+ words) More than five millennia ago, Neolithic builders hauled enormous stone slabs across the plains of southern Iberia to create the Menga Dolmen, one of the largest and most enigmatic megalithic monuments in Europe. Rising from the landscape near Antequera, the…...