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The Greek word for purple, extracted from a Herculaneum scroll

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Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum

A computer science student has discovered the first decipherable word in unopened scrolls from Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 million years ago

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Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and made use of their pelts

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The Amazon may contain thousands of undiscovered ancient structures

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Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's last cold snap

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'Dark earth' made by Amazon farmers stores carbon for centuries

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A flint used to shape a wooden structure identified at the archaeological site Kalambo Falls in Zambia

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Earliest evidence of buildings made from wood is 476,000 years old

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Stone Age carvings of animal footprints identified by expert trackers

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The Porc-Epic Cave

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Cave art pigments show how ancient technology changed over 4500 years

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Terracotta Army shoes reveal secrets of ancient Chinese footwear

An analysis of the sculpted shoes on the statues in China’s Terracotta Army, which dates back about 2200 years, suggests that their real-life soldier equivalents had surprisingly flexible footwear

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'Scent of eternity' worn by ancient Egyptian mummy has been revealed

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The untold story of the curiously controversial Homo floresiensis dig

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Ancient humans may have worn shoes more than 100,000 years ago

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Ötzi the iceman was dark-skinned and balding, suggests genome analysis

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