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A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone
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Livorno Torso Returns to Florence Archaeological Museum After Restoration
Ancient oaks reveal rewilding of Mediterranean forests after the Black Death
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Researchers probing the depths west of Australia just discovered something truly extraordinary: a sprawling cetacean cemetery containing nearly 500 individual whale remains. This "whale necropolis" has been gently gathering these skeletons over the last five million years
Archaeologists in Soissons (France) uncovered a late 1st-century AD Gallo-Roman mosaic during routine heating infrastructure work.
The central panel features intricate black-and-white interlocking triangles, diamonds, and a central floral design.
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Radiocarbon dating reveals that Italy's oldest oak forests (up to 600 years old) established in a synchronized pulse right after the Black Death outbreak (1347 CE). With less human pressure, nature bounced back at both sea level and high altitudes.
phys.org/news/2026-06...
Archaeologists uncovered several wild boar burials at a Greco-Roman necropolis at the archaeological site of Kom Aziza in the western Nile Delta region in Egypt.
Five new letters have been identified in the ancient Sidetic alphabet, bringing the total to 31.
The alphabet belongs to a lost language once spoken in the ancient port of Side in Anatolia (modern-day Türkiye), and is related to Lycian and Carian.
A rare and well-preserved Iron Age discovery at Loch Borralie in Sutherland, Scotland, has revealed evidence of complex postmortem skeletal modification, showing that an adult female's brain was extracted and her long bones were precisely sharpened into tool-like points.
The corners feature distinct motifs, including a beautifully rendered dolphin with bright red fins.
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