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Archaeologists Unearth Two Rare African Figurines in 1,500-Year-Old Christian Burials in Israel
Archaeologists in Israel have found two tiny African figurines buried in early Christian graves. Dating back roughly 1,500 ...
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2,500-year-old bird bone tubes used to snort hallucinogens discovered in Peru
The finding provides a psychedelic trip into the heart of pre-Incan power at Chavín de Huántar, where psychoactive substances ...
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Archaeologists Find ‘Very Rare’ African Figurines In A 1,500-Year-Old Burial In Israel’s Negev Desert
During excavations on the grounds of an Israeli Air Force base in the Negev Desert, archaeologists came across several tombs ...
Archaeologists Found Ancient Figures That Offer Clues About Early Christian Migration
Ancient ebony figures discovered in a necropolis in Israel are stylistically African, but made of Asian wood and surfaced ...
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1,600-year-old African ebony figurines found in Christian necropolis in Israel
The study presents an early Christian enclave and an African family, most likely, that called the Negev desert home.
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Iron Age Carved Bone object
This carved object made of bone could be a bodkin or a decorative pendant. It was found on the Iron Age Hillfort at Dunagoil at the South of Bute. The site was excavated in the early part of the ...
Science News15d
Neandertals invented bone-tipped spears all on their own
An 80,000-year-old bone point found in Eastern Europe challenges the idea that migrating Homo sapiens gave the technology to Neandertals.
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An ancient 'skull cult' might've carved up bones to shame their enemies
Three deeply carved skulls found at the Göbekli Tepe ... One skull also had a hole drilled into the left parietal bone, which forms the sides and roof of the cranium. Mashable Trend Report ...