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Topic: Archaeology

View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Two so-called sun stones, which are small flat shale pieces with finely incised patterns and sun motifs. They are known only from the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. (National Museum of Denmark)

"Sun stones" to ward off deadly volcano

Matthew Rozsa
The lidar-equipped helicopter used by GEO1 to map Colombia's Ciudad Perdida (Courtesy of NV5)

Lasers in the sky are rewriting history

Matthew Rozsa
Trine Freiesleben and Jean-Claude discussing the fingerprints and where to take OSL samples. (Kristina Thomsen)

The world's oldest Neanderthal art?

Matthew Rozsa
Datura flower, over illustration of Bronze Age Potter (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Tripping out in the Bronze Age

Troy Farah
Frost Fair on the Thames at London, 1683. Winters in Britain were often particularly cold in the 17th and 18th centuries, a period known as the 'Little Ice Age'. (Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Archaeology's lessons on climate change

Kate Yoder - Grist
A boat approaching a small island in the Aegean Sea. (Getty Images/George Pachantouris)

Boats predate humans — by 500,000 years

Troy Farah
Steak with asparagus (Getty Images/Claudia Totir)

The real Paleo diet

Ceren Kabukcu - The Conversation
San Pedro Cactus (Wikimedia Commons/Ajor933)

An early example of psychedelic ritual

Troy Farah
The end of America (Getty Images/Davide Zanin)

Are we the last civilization to fall?

Chris Hedges
(Getty/puchan)

The dinosaur that died on extinction day

Nicole Karlis
Mummified Remains in Tomb of the Golden Mummies (Getty Images/Ron Watts)

The thorny ethics of museum mummies

Doug Struck - Undark
This handout picture released on May 4, 2021 by the CNRS-University of Bordeaux, shows archaelogists at the Panga Ya Saidi site, north of Mombasa, Kenya, where the remains of a 3-year-old child named by the scientists "Mtoto" (meaning 'child' in Swahili) and buried inside a deliberately dug pit, were discovered. (FRANCESCO DERRICO,ALAIN QUEFFELEC/UNIVERSITY OF BORDEAUX/AFP via Getty Images)

The case of the 78,000-year-old grave

Matthew Rozsa
Two pteranodons flying (Getty Images/estt)

Largest flying animal gets a bone scan

Matthew Rozsa
Caveman and cave painting (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ancient cave painters were stoned: study

Matthew Rozsa
The skull and jaw of an Allosaurus skeleton is displayed at the Drouot auction house, in Paris on October 9, 2020 (THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images)

The dino named for being scary

Matthew Rozsa
Fragments of the new discovered Dead Sea Scroll are seen in a lab in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. Israeli archaeologists have discovered dozens of fragments of a biblical scroll written in Greek in the Cave of Horror near the Dead Sea. (Xinhua/Muammar Awad via Getty Images)

What the new Dead Sea Scrolls tell us

Matthew Rozsa
Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan in "The Dig" (Larry Horricks/Netflix)

An archaelogist on The Dig's accuracy

Roberta Gilchrist - The Conversation
Medal with Portrait of Caligula in the 6th Book, from Tibère ou les six premiers livres es Annales de Tacite Traduits par M. l'abbé de la Bléterie Professeur d'Eloquence au Collège Royal et de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale, published in 1768. Artist Augustin de Saint-Aubin. (Heritage Art/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

Caligula's garden is open

Matthew Rozsa
The depiction of the animal on an Indonesian island is at least 45,500 years old, the researchers say. (Maxime Aubert)

The oldest known work of art is a pig

Matthew Rozsa
The Nebra Sky Disk stands in a glass display case (Anne Pollmann/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Bronze Age astronomy gets rewritten

Matthew Rozsa
A 99-million-year old fossil of a hell ant, preserved in amber, attacking an ancient insect with its mandibles. (NJIT/Chinese Academy of Sciences/University of Rennes, France)

The hell ant trapped in amber

Matthew Rozsa
Life restoration of Kongonaphon kely, a newly described reptile near the ancestry of dinosaurs and pterosaurs, shown to scale with human hands. The fossils of Kongonaphon were found in Triassic (~237 million years ago) rocks in southwestern Madagascar and demonstrate the existence of remarkably small animals along the dinosaurian stem (Frank Ippolito/American Museum of Natural History)

Meet dinosaurs' tiny ancestor

Matthew Rozsa
Neanderthal skull (shutterstock)

Studying the past to change our present

Elizabeth Sawchuk, Mary Prendergast - The Conversation
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