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Known as a carnyx, the instrument is only the third of its kind to be found in Britain. It was discovered in the territory of ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

For 5,000 years scholars, generals, and mystics have been fascinated by the Egyptian pyramids. That obsession persists in the modern age. Today the Pyramids of Giza are surrounded by desert. But 4,600 ...

Archaeologists just tested 12 of these shell trumpets dating back 6,000 years. Eight could still be played, though one was ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...

In a glass case in Cairo, a 5,000-year-old stone disc carved from fragile schist looks less like a ritual object and more ...

In a series of small, clustered archaeological sites along the Llobregat River basin in Catalonia, a pattern has quietly ...