Sacred Boars and Painted Coffins: the Tell Kom Aziza Cemetery Rewrites Funerary History
In the Nile Delta, archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional Greco-Roman cemetery: seven centuries of funerary syncretism, wild boars bu…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
In the Nile Delta, archaeologists have uncovered an exceptional Greco-Roman cemetery: seven centuries of funerary syncretism, wild boars bu…
Read →Gold earrings, gold-plated scarabs, obsidian kohl containers: Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities has announced the first near-complete …
Read →The DNA of West African populations carries up to 19% ancestry from an archaic population unknown from fossils. This 'ghost' lineage and th…
Read →In a Libyan shelter, the DNA of two women mummified 7,000 years ago reveals a North African human lineage that stayed isolated for millenni…
Read →On the Cape south coast, a team has dated seven fossil footprint sites to between 71,000 and 153,000 years. The oldest, in the Garden Route…
Read →Deep in a South African cave lie some twenty individuals of an extinct, tiny-brained humanity. Analysis of their proteins has just delivere…
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