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Ice Age Giant Found Living Alongside Ancient Humans in Chile | Ancient Origins (opens the original)
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A fractured skull and much of an adult gomphothere skeleton have emerged from the bed of Chile's long-vanished Tagua Tagua lake. Archaeologists suspect people may have opened the skull to eat the brain, but the newly recovered animal's age and the precise cause of the break remain to be established. The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile's report provisionally places the find at about 12,500 years old, adding a fresh lead to the story of megafauna hunting in the Americas. Earlier excavatio
How Roman Amulets Survived the Rise of Christianity | Ancient Origins (opens the original)
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Roman amulets did not disappear when Christianity spread through the empire. Leiden researcher Patricia Kret's 2026 doctoral thesis examines objects from the first century BC to the sixth century AD and finds that people still guarded bodies and places with them, even as crosses and biblical words appeared. She studied about 300 examples, according to Leiden University, and discovered the custom endured even though bishops condemned it. The placement of an amulet has always played a part in its
Is this Impressive Carved Figure in Sudan a Lost Kushite King? | Ancient Origins (opens the original)
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On top of a granite hill in northern Sudan, a life-sized engraving of a figure might depict a Kushite king, although its exact identity or exactly when it was made are unknown. In the seventh century AD, builders erected a church near the statue, indicating two different faiths had been present in the region. The study published in Antiquity explores this fascinating location, looking at the context of this enigmatic image. Its wider finding is that Miseeda, in the Mahas region, was a long-lived
Sarmatian Warrior Identified in Reused Burial Mound | Ancient Origins (opens the original)
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On Ukraine’s Arabat Spit, a Sarmatian warrior burial lay near the top of a mound built for people who had died long before him. The man, aged 25 to 35, was buried with a dagger, a clay jug and a meat offering.. The excavators think he may have belonged to the Roxolani, one of the groups within the wider Sarmatian world. This was not a fresh excavation: the grave was uncovered in 2018, but this study offers a new analysis of the findings. According to the study by Yurii Boltryk and Olena Fialko,
Earliest Modern Human Face Reconstruction from 315,000-Year-Old Fossils | Ancient Origins (opens the original)
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Short title: Jebel Irhoud Face A new Jebel Irhoud face imagines an early Homo sapiens, but its 315,000-year-old skull combin
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