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Mad Honey: The Natural Poison That Knocked Out a Greek Army and Later Ambushed Roman Soldiers

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs.
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Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, ...
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Guillermo Carvajal

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades ...
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Romans Dug the Longest Tunnel Until the 1800s — 30,000 Men Worked for 11 Years, and Its Completion Was Celebrated with a Naval Battle

In AD 52, Emperor Claudius staged a naval battle with condemned prisoners to celebrate a tunnel that 30,000 workers had dug through a mountain by hand. The tunnel only half worked, and Lake Fucino was ...
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Archaeologists Find a Lost Greek Neighborhood in Sicily, Destroyed When Carthage Besieged the City 2,400 Years Ago — and Evidence of a Giant Artificial Fish Pond

A dig beside the famous Greek temples of Agrigento, in Sicily, has uncovered a previously unknown neighborhood of the ancient city of Akragas, with walls that collapsed when Carthage besieged it in ...
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Archaeologists Unearth a Complete Roman Window Grille, Nails and All at Augusta Raurica, the Oldest Colony on the Rhine

A team excavating Augusta Raurica, a Roman colony near Basel in Switzerland, has unearthed a complete iron window grille 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in) underground, with five bars and two nails still in place ...
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Stone Age Archaeology

About 13,800 years ago, Magdalenian hunters in northern Spain were still visiting the cave of Altamira, famous today for its painted bison. (The cave’s entrance would collapse around 13,000 years ago.
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Iron Age Archaeology

Around 400 BC, Europe was changing, though not in a single direction. Athens had just lost the Peloponnesian War (404 BC), and Roman tradition says the Gauls would sack Rome around 390 BC. Farther ...
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Hilltop Villages, African Ivory and Wounded Skeletons: How Small Communities Resisted The First Bronze Age Power in Spain

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, ...
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New Structures Have Been Discovered in Ancient Arsinoe, the Greek City that the Egyptian “Philadelphus” Queen Named after Herself in Aetolia

Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from Ephesus ...
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Phoenician Ivory, a Phrygian-Style Belt and Traces of Indian Pepper, Found Inside a Strange “Dark Age” Tomb in Jordan

Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were ...
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Clear Voices, Muddy Music: Scientists Measure How a Giant Roman Amphitheatre in Spain Sounds Today

Thirty-five thousand spectators. That is the capacity the authors of a new study attribute to the Roman amphitheatre of Itálica, in Santiponce, near Seville in southern Spain. It is roughly the crowd ...