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2,400-year-old puppets discovered atop pyramid in El Salvador

In San Isidro, El Salvador, archaeologists have unearthed a stunning set of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets atop a pyramidal structure. These findings shed new light on ancient public rituals and cultural exchanges in Central America...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/pup

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This has got to be the most amazing thing I’ve read this week, Evidence is mounting that large sandstone caves in Amazonian South America, large enough to comfortably walk through and the longest with 1,500 metres of tunnels, were carved out by giant ground sloths. Yes, ground sloths!

“The South American palaeoburrows might be the largest ichnofossils known so far.”

nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Pre-Hispanic dock and navigable canal discovered beneath Chapultepec Avenue in Mexico City

Archaeologists from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have uncovered the remnants of a pre-Hispanic dock and canal beneath the busy Chapultepec Avenue in Mexico City. The discovery lies near Chapulín Hill, where a natural river once flowed into the now-drained Lake Texcoco...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/11/pre

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Neanderthal remains discovered in Arbreda cave, Spain

Researchers have unearthed significant Neanderthal dental remains at Arbreda Cave, part of the Reclau Caves complex in the Prehistoric Caves Park of Serinyà, Girona, northeastern Spain. The study, published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nea

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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography
hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient

The Hub · Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed in ancient Syrian cityFindings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries

Archimedes Rediscovered: Technology and Ancient History

Advanced imaging technologies help scholars reveal and share lost texts from the ancient world.

In 1907, Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered something unexpected in a Byzantine prayer book. Beneath the prayers, in faded lettering, he recognized the words of Archimedes.

By: Danny Robb via @JSTOR_Daily

daily.jstor.org/archimedes-red