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Masters behind Nordic Bronze Age rock art and their social role
A doctoral dissertation at the University of Gothenburg has examined the social role of Nordic Bronze Age rock art in Bohuslän, Sweden, providing new insights into the people behind these carvings. Researchers have studied these images for over two centuries, but the identities and functions of their creators remained unclear..
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/mas…
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Timeline cleanse!
A Greek Lekythos (a vessel to store and pour scented oil) decorated with an #owl, 470 BC. 🦉
The owl was the sacred animal of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who was also the protector goddess of Athens.
On display at Antikensammlung München
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Casablanca fossils dated 773,000 years back reveal African origin of last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals
A set of ancient human bones from Casablanca reshapes how we think about early human history. New research places a key ancestral population of modern humans and Neanderthals in northwest Africa around 773,000 years ago...
More info: archaeologymag.com/2026/01/cas…
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Casablanca fossils dated 773,000 years back reveal African origin of last common ancestor of humans and Neanderthals
Fossils dated to 773,000 years from Casablanca suggest an African origin for the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals.Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
A painted #Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn lid with a reclining woman.
Found in Chiusi, dating 150-120 BC.
It was on display at the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, which will be closed for the next couple of years.
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New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE
For over a century, the foundation of the Macedonian kingdom, the homeland of Philip II and Alexander the Great, has been placed in the mid-7th century BCE. This date, repeated in countless history books, has long been treated as a fact...
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New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE
New research challenges the traditional timeline of the Macedonian kingdom, dating the rise of Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCEDario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
