NIPPUR MAP TABLET. DATE: ca. 1500 B.C. MATERIAL: Clay. DIMENSIONS: 5 inches by 4.3 inches. FOUND: Nippur, Iraq. For the busy farmers of the Babylonian sacred city of Nippur, ready access to water ...

TAMPA, FLORIDA—According to a statement released by the University of South Florida, Davide Tanasi and his colleagues have identified evidence of hallucinogens in a 2,000-year-old mug shaped as ...

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Thousands of cuneiform tablets written in a distinctive script tell the dramatic story of a Bronze Age merchant city in Syria ...

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN—NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the blade of a sickle across her neck some 400 years ago.

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Osteoarchaeologist Hanne Ekstrøm Jordahl collects the human remains from the well ...

Rectangular burnt house with remains of built installations and vessels for food storage, Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia SVINJARIČKA ČUKA, SERBIA—According to a Newsweek report, traces of an 8,000 ...

Wall painting depicting Phaedra and Hippolytus from the House of Phaedra, Pompeii, Italy ...