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CWA travels to Mongolia
An empty and timeless landscape Anna Faherty goes in search of the wide open spaces and ancient markers of Mongolia’s remote hinterland. Empty Mongolia landscape Mongolia is officially the least...
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CWA travels to The Petroglyphs of Bangudae
Discovering a lost world How often do you visit a rock-art site armed only with binoculars? You do at Bangudae, on South Korea’s east coast, and with good reason, as Brian Fagan discovered on a recent...
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CWA travels to Persepolis
Making memories and meeting family Their trip to Iran was always going to be special: John Lowe and his wife Gill were off to meet the family of their new daughter-in-law. So, a visit to Persepolis was...
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Book Review: Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, and History
Soviet Archaeology: Trends, Schools, and History Leo S Klejn OUP, £85.00 ISBN 978-0199601356 Born ten years after the Russian Revolution, Leo Klejn, Emeritus Professor at St Petersburg University,...
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Palaeolithic child violence
The 3D reconstruction of a Palaeolithic skull has revealed the earliest evidence of a brain injury caused by violence to a child. The skull, belonging to a 12- to 13-year-old, was discovered at the...
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Object Lesson: The Indus Dancing Girl
What is it? The Dancing Girl dates to the Harappan period of the Indus Valley, c.2500 BC. At 10.5cm high, she stands with her hand on her hip, left knee raised, and her hips set in a relaxed pose. Her...
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Stone-tool evolution
The evolution of stone-tool technology occurred independently among different human populations, instead of during the migration of hominins out of Africa. Traditional theories suggest hominin...
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Artistic origins redefined
Dr Maxime Aubert and team at Leang Bulu Betue cave, Sulawesi. Cave paintings on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi are revolutionising our ideas about the origins of art. The cave art dates to 40,000...
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Prophet and profit
The Assyrian palace at Nimrud is blown up by Islamic State militants. Michael Danti and John MacGinnis report from Iraq and Syria on the archaeology lost to Islamic State ideology and to looting to...
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Object Lesson: The Nimrud Lamassu
What is it? This monumental sculpture depicts a mythological creature called a lamassu. Lamassi were protectors and guardians, engraved into clay tablets and buried under thresholds or carved into the...
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CWA travels to Armenia
The view from Khor Virap monastery in Armenia looks across to Mt Ararat in Turkey. The year 2015 is a sad one for Armenia: it marks the centenary of the great massacre of its people by the Turks, when...
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Written word, past voices
The 7th-century Monastery of Rabban Hormizd, only 28 miles north of Mosul, is situated on the front lines of the battle against Islamic State. Saving the language of the ancient Near East For more than...
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Earliest agriculture
The first steps towards agriculture occurred 11,000 years earlier than previously thought. A community of hunter-gathers, living on the shores of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, were using what...
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Home of Goliath
A monumental entrance gate and major fortifications have been uncovered at the Biblical city of Gath in Israel, home of the legendary Goliath. The city gate is one of the largest yet found in Israel,...
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Palmyra: Arch of Triumph
According to reports from Palmyra, IS militant have destroyed the Arch of Triumph – an important Roman monument at the site. To read our Special Report on the archaeology lost to Islamic State...
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Mosaic map
A rare 1,500-year-old mosaic, found in southern Israel and depicting streets and buildings in Egypt, has gone on show after two years of conservation. The mosaic was part of the floor of a...
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Long-lost literature
A deal between a museum and a smuggler has uncovered a lost chapter from the Epic of Gilgamesh, a Mesopotamian poem dating to 2100 BC – and one of the first great works of literature in the world....
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A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has pushed back agriculture in China by 12,000 years. The roots of agriculture are traditionally traced to tools used to grind...
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Before rice cultivation became prevalent in China, prehistoric inhabitants of its southern coast probably relied on sago palms as a staple food, according to new research published in PLOS ONE....
View ArticleWorld’s oldest primate skeleton found
A tiny skeleton dating back 55 million years is the oldest primate fossil ever found, shedding new light on human evolution, researchers say. Found in sedimentary rock from ancient lake bed in Hubei...
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