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Excavations at Old Dongola in northern Sudan exposed a large staircase and, on an upper level, an unexpected smaller church with Greek-inscribed plaster fragments.
Mozilla measured fingerprintability on almost 25 million Firefox release users and built protections on the data; web compatibility was kept.
Archaeologists in Mexico’s Campeche state found a Late Classic Maya settlement, probably called Sakil, with inscriptions on 14 pillars and altars about a conflict with Ocomtún.
Analysis of finds from Spanish caves suggests ancient Europeans practiced cannibalism for millennia, not always because of hunger; in some cases it may have been a funeral rite.
In a test with replicas, large ficron handaxes cut plastic rope more slowly than normal-sized ones, while the original British finds are unusually symmetrical. Authors suggest a social role.
Two burial-dating methods gave 1.42 million years for the sediment with Mode-1 artefacts; the authors call it the earliest securely dated hominin presence in Europe.
A small solid-gold bear, likely a headdress ornament of a Saka elite member, was excavated at the Karagaily kurgan cemetery; no similar object had been found in Kazakhstan before.
Divers and land teams found a harbour section probably from the Augustan period and a building possibly used for wine production; samples should identify the quarry.
A Digital Medievalist study applies latent semantic analysis to Yale's MS 408. The two halves of one sheet are more alike than the pages that now face each other.
The gallery was found in a cave long open to tourists. The engravings have not been dated directly; by style, the art is likely over 19,000 years old.
Researchers read inscriptions on stone monuments at a Maya site found in May 2026 and concluded its ancient name was Sakil, "whiteness". They also read the ruler's name.
A 1,500-km transect through the world's largest sand sea found lake deposits but no lithics; the authors say stone availability constrained settlement alongside water.
Universities in Volgograd and Bashkortostan are finishing a new antiplatelet substance for myocardial infarction; the developers report efficacy comparable to eptifibatide.
Excavations before construction on Gladstone Way yielded dozens of artefacts, including lead brooch moulds. Archaeologists say they show local industry near Roman Chester.
Researchers examined the remains of 1,519 people from the Lambayeque Valley in Peru and found few injuries from interpersonal conflict, although local societies practiced human sacrifice.
A stone building with a Christian burial was found near Brattahlíð, Erik the Red's estate. Researchers say it is the first Norse church discovered in Greenland in over 60 years.
Gianni Papi and Maria Cristina Terzaghi announced attributions to Caravaggio within twenty-four hours; the attributions remain provisional and Papi's study is unpublished.
Geneticists mapped migration routes across Europe using 4,700 ancient genomes, aligning genetic shifts with the spread of Germanic and Celtic languages.
Dutch archaeologists recovered a timber 30 cm thick that may be a ship's rib. Tree-ring dating is pending, and its origin remains open.
Excavations in five trenches at Bala Hissar have yielded coins, Buddhist statue fragments and a Mughal palace with a star-shaped pool. The site is planned as a public park.
