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探花直播tale of the tomb of Thutmose II

24 Feb 2025

Cambridge 探花直播's Dr Judith Bunbury is Deputy Mission Director of the archaeological project in the Theban Mountain area that found the lost...

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Professor Colin Renfrew, Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn

Professor Lord Colin Renfrew 鈥 1937-2024

25 Nov 2024

Professor Cyprian Broodbank remembers Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, founding Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and...

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Stone tools from Oued Beht

Previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco discovered

26 Sep 2024

Multi-disciplinary archaeological survey at the site of Oued Beht, Morocco, reveals a previously unknown 3400鈥2900 BC farming society, shedding new...

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Image from the Mapping Africa鈥檚 Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project.

Arcadia awards over 拢10 million for 2 major archaeology projects

20 Aug 2024

探花直播charitable foundation awards 拢10.3 million for the continuation of 2 Cambridge projects mapping endangered archaeological heritage in South Asia...

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Revealed: face of 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal from cave where species buried their dead

02 May 2024

A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull was discovered and rebuilt from hundreds of...

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A cast of the skull of Homo Heidelbergensis, one of the hominin species analysed in the latest study.

Interspecies competition led to even more forms of ancient human 鈥 defying evolutionary trends in vertebrates

17 Apr 2024

Competition between species played a major role in the rise and fall of hominins, and produced a 鈥渂izarre鈥 evolutionary pattern for the Homo lineage.

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Photographs of the four awardees

Four Cambridge researchers awarded prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grants

11 Apr 2024

探花直播funding provides leading senior researchers with the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major...

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Research reveals 鈥榗osy domesticity鈥 of prehistoric stilt-house dwellers in England鈥檚 ancient marshland

20 Mar 2024

Detailed reports on thousands of artefacts pulled from 鈥淏ritain鈥檚 Pompeii鈥 reveals the surprisingly sophisticated domestic lives of Bronze Age Fen...

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Remains of the theatre at Interamna Lirenas, Italy

Roman 鈥榖ackwater鈥 bucked Empire鈥檚 decline, archaeologists reveal

12 Dec 2023

A rare roofed theatre, markets, warehouses, a river port and other startling discoveries made by a Cambridge-led team of archaeologists challenge...

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鈥楤one biographies鈥 reveal life and times of medieval England鈥檚 common people

01 Dec 2023

Researchers have given medieval Cambridge residents the 鈥楻ichard III treatment鈥 to reveal the hard-knock lives of those who lived in the city during...

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A cross-section of the polygonal muscle modelling approach, guided by muscle scarring and MRI data.

First hominin muscle reconstruction shows 3.2 million-year-old 鈥楲ucy鈥 could stand as erect as we can

14 Jun 2023

Digital modelling of legendary fossil鈥檚 soft tissue suggests Australopithecus afarensis had powerful leg and pelvic muscles suited to tree dwelling...

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 探花直播toilet seat from the estate at Armon ha-Natziv.  探花直播site, excavated in 2019, probably dates from the days of King Manasseh, a client king for the Assyrians who ruled for fifty years in the mid-7th century.

Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament Jerusalem

26 May 2023

Study of 2,500-year-old latrines from the biblical Kingdom of Judah shows the ancient faeces within contain Giardia 鈥 a parasite that can cause...

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