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A purple and red curtain aurora provides a backdrop to the silhouette of a forest.
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Ancient Assyrian Aurorae Help Astronomers Understand Solar Activity

by Mara Johnson-Groh 31 December 201913 April 2022

Records of aurorae in Mesopotamia from 2,600 years ago are helping astronomers understand and predict solar activity today.

Digital elevation map of canals at ancient Maya site Belize
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Ancient Maya Farms Revealed by Laser Scanning

by Jenessa Duncombe 7 October 20193 November 2021

One agricultural network was 5 times larger than earlier estimates, and the fields may be an early source of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.

Photograph of an ancient Norse archeological site, called Anavik, in western Greenland
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Global Warming Is Conquering the Vikings

by L. Joel 27 August 201916 December 2021

Ancient Arctic artifacts are disappearing as warming unfurls.

Man sifts through a tray of pottery sherds.
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Ceramics Trace a 14th Century Indonesian Tsunami

by Katherine Kornei 17 June 201916 March 2022

Archaeological evidence suggests that communities on the northern coast of Sumatra devastated by a tsunami roughly 600 years ago opted to rebuild in the same area, a process repeated in 2004.

Stromboli island Italy
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Ancient Tsunami Tied to Volcanic Flank Collapse in Italy

by Katherine Kornei 11 February 201921 March 2022

Stromboli’s volcanic cone may have suffered multiple flank collapses between the 14th and 16th centuries, triggering tsunamis that led to the abandonment of the island.

Rozan Alkhatib-Alkontar surveys a patch of ground at the site of the ancient city of Thaj, Saudi Arabia
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Magnetic Surveying Reveals Hidden Ancient Buildings and Streets

by B. Bedford 11 January 201929 September 2021

Buried buildings subtly distort natural magnetic fields, providing a magnetic surveying team with clues that helped archaeologists map an ancient city.

Neanderthal and human skull
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Neanderthals Likely Ate Rotten Meat

by Jenessa Duncombe 10 December 201828 September 2021

Neanderthals have long been painted as meat-eating machines. But could a new look at a dietary proxy and how it changes when meat rots uncover insights into what these extinct hominids really ate?

Helix pomatia snail shell from Italy
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Boiled or Raw, Snail Shells Keep an Environmental Archive

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 15 December 201715 November 2021

Snail shells discovered at archaeological sites might still accurately record past weather and vegetation despite being the leftovers of a past meal.

Using fluorescent lights to look for charcoal and shells in sediment layers in a cave in Indonesia to use to radiocarbon date tsunami deposits.
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Indonesian Cave Reveals Nearly 5,000 Years of Tsunamis

by Katherine Kornei 7 August 201716 March 2022

Researchers explore a coastal cave containing layers of sand deposited by 11 prehistoric tsunamis and demonstrate that the time period between massive waves is highly variable.

This dagger, recovered from King Tutankhamun’s mummy, sports a rock crystal pommel, a golden hilt, and a blade hammered from meteoritic iron.
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Pharaoh's Iron Dagger Made from a Meteorite, Study Confirms

by E. Deatrick 1 June 20164 October 2021

After examining the metal under bombardment by X-rays, scientists find the composition of King Tutankhamun's knife blade matches "iron of the sky."

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