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Melting Mountain Ice Is Bringing Ancient Secrets to the Surface . . . 5 Judi Lynn May 21 11 hrs ago 19 660
Mysterious Ancient Chinese Bronze Kingdom (PBS Secrets of the Dead full episode) 0 eShirl Yesterday Yesterday 6 310
Something Was Very Wrong With The Inca Empire -- DNA Just Proved It 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 21 Tuesday 19 1164
Ancient Korean society practiced human sacrifice and high inbreeding, researchers find 3 Judi Lynn Apr 10 Tuesday 5 917
Rainforest Discovery Reveals Early Humans in Rainforest 150,000 Years Ago, Rewriting Human Evolution History 3 Judi Lynn May 21 Friday 29 763
How a 4,000-year-old city defied history's 'rules' by becoming more equal as it became more successful 0 erronis May 19 May 19 22 629
Artifact: The Rolodex 3 Kali Apr 23 May 17 5 590
Glad to see Judi Lynn is back! 10 mntleo2 May 3 May 4 63 1360
A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 26 Apr 26 15 882
220,000-Year-Old Quarry Site in South Africa Studied 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 17 1030
Roman sanctuary unearthed beneath Frankfurt may have a dark past involving ritual human sacrifice 0 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 14 682
Beadnet dress: A 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian funeral 'gown' that was in vogue during the Old Kingdom 4 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 15 1151
Archaeologists Discovered an Ancient Projectile Inscribed With a Threatening Message 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 9 1003
Iran Attacked Its Arab Neighbors -- Their DNA Explains Why 5 Warpy Mar 30 Apr 2 3 1063
Ancient Maya Wetlands Reveal Settlement That Thrived Amid "Collapse" 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 30 1450
Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 13 864
Judi Lynn hasn't been here for a month. 12 Easterncedar Mar 28 Mar 28 49 2279
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America 17 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Mar 28 62 3697
PBS Secrets of the Dead: Sunken 4th Century Basilica (full documentary 55:35) 0 eShirl Mar 19 Mar 19 6 905
Scientists Reveal the Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals and Early Humans 3 erronis Feb 28 Mar 9 5 1281
Humanity's oldest geometries, engraved on ostrich eggs 0 erronis Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 938
(Archaeology with Flint Dibble): A New History of the Ancient Maya with Dr David Stuart 0 eShirl Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 869
Archaeologists Believed Every Statue on This Island Had Been Found, Until One Emerged from a Lakebed 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1205
18,000-Year-Old Evidence of Human Brain Consumption Found in Poland's Maszycka Cave 7 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 1398
Archaeologists Launch 'Virtual Museum' To Ukraine's Ancient Heritage 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1016
1.77-Million-Year-Old Homo erectus Crania in China Challenge Long-Held Timelines of Human Dispersal 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1115
Ancient Greece's Deadliest Secret: Did a Hallucinogenic Fungus Power the Eleusinian Mysteries? 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 33 1495
Ancient Skies, Ancient Wisdom 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1072
How Sumerians in Mesopotamia Perfected Asphalt-Like Materials 4,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 836
Extraordinary Discovery at Ness of Brodgar, Scotland: New 3D Scans Could Rewrite Neolithic History 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 19 1280

Anthropology Continued...

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Championships Mark the Rebirth of a Dynamic Art Form 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 12 967
New Research Reveals How Londoners Used Death Data to Survive the Great Plague 4 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 16 1166
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older--and not Denisovans 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 21 1275
Mystery of Armenia's Giant 6,000-Year-old 'Dragon Stones' is Finally Solved 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 27 1437
In the 3rd century, the Vikings' ancestors in Norway may have ravaged the North Sea 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 23 1238
ASI unearths around 4,000-year-old human settlement in Odisha 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 822
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 55 2087
Only Humans Have Chins -- and They Emerged as an Evolutionary Accident 12 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 19 2047
At a 'Tea Party' With Scientists, This Ape Showed Some Imagination 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1241
Book Review: How Sickness Has Transformed Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 1029
Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 840
A Closer Look at King Tut's Footwear: The Pharaoh Was Buried With Over 80 Pairs of Sandals Made from Gold and Papyrus 10 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 1587
Ancient Inuits Seafarers Conquered the High Arctic 4000 Years Ago and Built Villages There Their travels shape the ecosy 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 967
Ancient DNA reveals Europe's last hunter-gatherers survived until 2500 BCE 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 931
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1052
DNA Reveals the People Who Replaced Stonehenge's Builders Along With 90% of Britain's Population Came from a Dutch Swamp 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 1180
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1105
Prehistoric discovery in Oregon cave older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history 10 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 60 3193
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 26 1506
Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 970
A 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites the story of ancient Egyptian tools 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 903
Archaeologists find 10,000-year-old rock art site in Egypt's Sinai 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 937
Archaeologists Uncovered a Lost City Hidden Beneath the Desert for 1,200 Years 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 1165
Cambridge students unearth Viking-era 'execution pit' 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 1055
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong 1 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1118
Oldest known sewn hide and other artifacts from Oregon caves shed light on early clothing in harsh climates 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1020
Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 1017
These 500,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 975
In 1940, A Dog Investigated A Hole In A Tree And Discovered A Vast Cave Filled With Ancient Human Artwork 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Jan 2026 46 2344
Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art 2 Bayard Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1384

Anthropology Continued...

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Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient 'water cult', archaeologists say 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Jan 2026 8 1550
3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History 2 Gaugamela Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 1546
A Massive Stone Wall Built 7,000 Years Ago Was Found Intact Beneath the Sea Off the Coast of France 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 31 1597
Step inside the lost Native American city that rivalled medieval London 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 21 1685
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Dec 2025 20 3582
"Seeking the Koko' Ta'ay"--Taiwan's Little People, Big Questions 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1222
A New Study Revealed the Secret Origin of One of America's Most Mysterious Monuments 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 1390
Study Finds Golden Retrievers and Humans Share Genes for Anxiety and Intelligence 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Dec 2025 16 1703
Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes--Including One That's 5,200 Years Old 8 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 27 2369
It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1546
Archaeologists Uncover Massive 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1570
Archaeologists Reveal Ancient, Single-Log Boats Used to Navigate Prehistoric England 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 1368
Aologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1203
Native American city that rivalled medieval London 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 1383
DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1115
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 1114
Easter Island Statue Construction Wasn't a Top-Down Affair 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1596
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 38 2683
Massive prehistoric structure found near Stonehenge 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1503
Neolithic 'amphitheater' uncovered at Karahantepe archaeological site 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 1315
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