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Ancient DNA reveals Upton Lovell burial individual long assumed male was female

Ancient DNA from the Upton Lovell burial near Stonehenge has shown the individual long assumed to be a male shaman or metalworker was in fact a postmenopausal woman about 165 cm tall with signs of wrist arthritis.

Jacob Davies

18 JUL · 4 min read

University of Barcelona archaeologists find Iliad fragment in Roman-era Egyptian mummy

University of Barcelona archaeologists recovered a papyrus fragment from Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Roman mummy at Oxyrhynchus.

Jacob Davies

16 JUL · 3 min read

Maya astronomer Sak Tahn Waax identified in ancient wall text

A study published in Antiquity analyses a microtext from Xultun, Guatemala, containing a formula linking the 260-day ritual calendar, 365-day solar year, and synodic cycles of Venus and Mars.

Jacob Davies

15 JUL · 3 min read