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Sirwan Regional ProjectBeer drinking cups being excavated at Khani Masi. Scientists have long known that beer played an ...

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Researchers have found dozens of human bones on the banks of the iconic river, many of them thousands of years old.

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Scientists studied the scents of ancient Egyptian mummies, revealing embalming materials and conservation effects.

See Lucy Run: Our early human ancestor was capable of running ... for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age ...

weren’t seas at all. Instead, they were vast plains that were home to ancient human civilizations. But as the curtain drew to a close on the last Ice Age, water levels rose and inundated these ...