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Who were the ancient Persians?Reference The Persians, originally a semi-nomadic people from central Asia, settled on the Iranian plateau and founded the Achaemenid Empire.
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Ancient Bronze Age city reemerges from Iraq river after extreme droughtArchaeologists raced to investigate an ancient Bronze Age city in Iraq after it re-emerged from a reservoir following an extreme drought.
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Vast 4,500-year-old network of 'funerary avenues' discovered in Saudi ArabiaArchaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered 4,500-year-old "funerary avenues" alongside thousands of pendant-shaped tombs.
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Human skull fragments found in massive boneyard in hyenas' lava tube caveIn the Umm Jirsan lava tube, the longest such structure in Saudi Arabia, scientists discovered piles bones belonging to animals that hyenas devoured there for thousands of years.
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US to return 'priceless' 3,500-year-old Epic of Gilgamesh tablet to Iraq 30 years after it was stolenDiscovered in 1853, the Epic of Gilgamesh caused a sensation through its telling of an ark that survived a great flood.
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Mysterious 7,000-year-old stone structures may be part of prehistoric cattle cultSprawling rectangular structures scattered across northwest Arabia and dating back more than 7,000 years may have been part of a prehistoric cattle cult.
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Pet dog buried 6,000 years ago is earliest evidence of its domestication in ArabiaArchaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered bones at a burial site that reveal the domestication of dogs in the area happened much earlier than previously believed.
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Ancient cultic area for warrior-god uncovered in IraqA 5,000-year-old cultic area dedicated to a Mesopotamian warrior god has been discovered in an ancient city in Iraq.
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70,000-year-old Neanderthal remains may be evidence that 'closest human relative' buried its deadThese are the most complete articulated Neanderthal remains to be found in more than 25 years.
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