@antiquity.ac.uk📰 "Teeth reveal hard lives of medieval lead mining communities"
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Traces of lead in children's teeth from medieval England indicate people were growing up in a heavily polluted environment as early as c. AD 750.
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Why did people in Iron Age Scotland remove the brain of a woman and fashion her bones into tools?
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Renowned for planned streets and sophisticated drainage systems, the Indus city of Mohenjo-daro was remarkably egalitarian, and new research indicates inequality declined as it developed!
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Archaeologists uncover a "thriving centre of worship, craft, and learning" in Scotland that may have rivalled the best-known monasteries in early medieval Britain
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Was a giant petroglyph, possibly depicting a Kushite ruler, a marker of an ancient Nubian borderland?
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Discovery of an early medieval monastery of “international importance” in Argyll, Scotland sheds light on the influence of Christian networks in the region during the first millennium AD.
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ 6th-century-AD monastery shed light on the spread of Christianity in Scotland
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Ancient glyphs found inside a sacred cave in Mexico point to Teotihuacan rituals held there, possibly associated with commemorating deceased warriors
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Rare, life-sized petroglyph in Sudan may depict an ancient Nubian king
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Workers dredging gravel in Austria kept finding corroded iron objects, leading to the identification of Europe's largest assemblage of prehistoric iron bars!
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@antiquity.ac.uk"Minor miracle" leads to the discovery of 500 iron bars lost in the Danube 2200 years ago, enough to equip an entire army with weapons!
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Europe's largest trove of Iron Age iron bars found in Austria
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 A novel scientific technique reveals the use of toxic plants to make anaesthetic in Ming China
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Insects reveal an Indigenous granary in Gran Canaria was transformed into a burial site
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Archaeologists uncover the largest pottery kiln ever documented from the prehistoric Cucuteni-Trypillia culture in Romania
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 New research documents one of the longest stretches of continuous settlement in Southern Italy, tracing 6000 years of prehistoric activity from the Neolithic to the Iron Age
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@antiquity.ac.ukA lack of data on the Palaeolithic means the prehistory of the Central Taurus Mountains and Cilicia remains underexplored.
#AntiquityResearch published #OnThisDay in 2025 on Eşek Deresi Cave began the journey to fill this gap in our knowledge.
@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Archaeologists reveal life beyond the royal centre in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud, uncovering how ordinary people in the lower city lived.
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@antiquity.ac.uk📰 Snake-headed ceramic vessel indicates an obscure #Roman cult from modern Türkiye and the Balkans reached as far as rural Spain
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