- Robert Laughlin, Preserver of a Mayan Language, Dies at 85
His monumental dictionary, after years of field work, documented Tzotzil in southern Mexico. But that was just the start of his efforts to preserve the culture.
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- Facebook, Citing Looting Concerns, Bans Historical Artifact Sales
The company announced the prohibition after researchers reported that looters were using the platform to identify and sell illegally excavated antiquities.
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- Ancient Rome Was Teetering. Then a Volcano Erupted 6,000 Miles Away.
Scientists have linked historical political instability to a number of volcanic events, the latest involving an eruption in the Aleutian Islands.
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- Neolithic Site Near Stonehenge Yields an ‘Astonishing Discovery’
The finding of a circle of trenches at a nearby ancient village also makes the site the largest prehistoric structure in Britain and possibly in Europe, one archaeologist said.
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- El ADN de una tumba irlandesa revela una historia de élites e incesto
En uno de los túmulos funerarios más impresionantes de la Edad de Piedra en Europa, los investigadores encontraron evidencia de incesto entre hermanos, lo que sugiere la existencia de una sociedad jerárquica.
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- DNA of ‘Irish Pharaoh’ Sheds Light on Ancient Tomb Builders
In one of Europe's most impressive Stone Age burial mounds, researchers found evidence of brother-sister incest that suggests the existence of a ruling elite.
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- Mining Firm Plans to Destroy Indigenous Australian Sites, Despite Outcry
Just weeks after another company was criticized for razing ancient caves in the Pilbara desert, BHP said it would expand an iron ore mine on land that contains rock shelters some 15,000 years old.
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- Roman Villa’s Mosaics Are Unearthed, Again, a Century After Last Dig
The site in northern Italy was excavated in 1922, but then reburied and mostly forgotten about. But not by archaeologists, who made “an important find” of mosaics from the third or fourth century A.D.
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- Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now
Get up close to the finest mosaics in Western Europe, 19th-century busts (an earlier form of self-promotion), the archaeology of Turkey, the Met’s conservation projects and stately European homes.
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- La historia que cuentan los restos de tres africanos en una tumba de México
En una fosa común del siglo XVI en Ciudad de México aparecieron los huesos de tres hombres que podrían ser unos de los primeros en ser obligados a salir de África y para ser esclavizados en las Américas.
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