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'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrivedArchaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.
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'News reports tweaked the science to speak to contemporary anxieties': How Neanderthal extinction is a projection of our own, modern fearsBook excerpt In this excerpt from "Neanderthals Among Us," author Peter Sahlins looks at the way Neanderthal extinction theories are often engrained with our own societal fears.
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How did Roman aqueducts get water to go uphill?Life's Little Mysteries Roman aqueducts used gravity to transport water. So how did they get it to go uphill?
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Bronze ring with Lighthouse of Alexandria engraving discovered at palace on submerged island in EgyptA bronze ring that depicts the Lighthouse of Alexandria has been discovered underwater in the remains of an ancient palace.
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Archaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian houseA study of nearly 200 individuals buried in domestic contexts in ancient and Viking Age Scandinavia has revealed unusually high levels of violence.
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Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study findsThe ancient Egyptians practiced human sacrifice around 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.
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1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in GermanyArchaeologists in Germany have found a temple to Mars, the god of war, next to a Roman Empire military encampment.
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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler's arrival to the Maya underworldAstonishing Artifacts This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.
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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggestsThe first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but "there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset," a new study reports.
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