ancient archaeology

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High on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, the sanctuary of Delphi was the most famous oracle of the ancient world, a priestess of the Greek god Apollo, who could shape the course of history.

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In 2025, archaeologists found traces of Scotland’s biggest and oldest Neolithic timber hall. Dated at roughly 4000 BC, it was built a thousand years before Stonehenge existed.

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New research has shed new light on the origins of the Carnac megaliths in France, making them perhaps the oldest monumental structures in Europe.

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Archaeologists in southern Jordan have uncovered the long-lost Byzantine city of Tharais, tucked away on the southeast coast of the Dead Sea.

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New age dating of a boomerang found in a Polish cave has archaeologists abuzz that it could be the oldest boomerang on Earth.

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Archaeologists in northern Vietnam have uncovered two fully intact wooden boats with an unprecedented double-hulled design, the first discovery of its kind.



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