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Topic: Archeology

A Palestinian woman shakes olives to filter off leaves during the olive harvest at a grove outside Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 11, 2023. (ARIS MESSINIS / Getty Images)

The archeobotany of occupation

Rae Hodge
Temple Of Kukulkan El Castillo pyramid, Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, Yucatan, Mexico. (Marco Bottigelli)

Upending the virgin girl sacrifice trope

Rae Hodge
Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou (543-578) | The Kunlun Mountains (Kunlun Shan) forms the northern edge of the Tibetan Plateau south of the Tarim basin and the Gansu corridor and continues east south of the Wei River to end at the North China Plain. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Chinese climate change, past and present

Rae Hodge
Babylonian tablet dating to the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II | Earth's Magnetic Field (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Slemani Museum)

Space mystery solved by Babylonian relic

Rae Hodge
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DNA, Atoms and particles (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

Nobel Prize honors paleogenomics

Mary Prendergast - The Conversation
Looking at Pompeii from above (Getty Images)

Dig into this Pompeii-inspired lamb stew

Ashlie D. Stevens
Peak-a-Boo Canyon at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (Shutterstock)

Another front opens in war on science

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
Peak-a-Boo Canyon at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument (Shutterstock)

National parks could be lost under Trump

P. David Polly - The Conversation
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A fisherman drives a boat near Ilulissat, Greenland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Historic sites effected by climate

Patty Hamrick
Giza Pyramids (Getty/karimhesham)

Scientists find void in Giza Pyramid

Rachel Leah
(University of Dundee)

The dead tell tales

Angelo Young
(Wikicommons)

Hanging Gardens lost no more

Noah Charney
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(Columbia Pictures)

A few good Monuments Men

Noah Charney

Celts: Smarter than you think

Laura Miller
(Shutterstock)

ELIZABETH LOPATTO - Bloomberg

Stone Age delusions

Laura Miller
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Jillian Steinhauer - Hyperallergic

Score three for science!

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Archaeological jackpot!

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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