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Ancient Ethiopian palace could have stood 16 storeys high, study finds
Computer simulations of a 2,800-year-old monumental building in northern Ethiopia suggest its unusual timber-reinforced walls were strong enough to support far more floors than archaeologists had previously assumed.
9,000-year-old mining workshop unearthed at Çayönü Hill
Archaeologists excavating one of Türkiye’s most important Neolithic settlements have uncovered an approximately 9,000-year-old mining workshop, providing striking new evidence of specialised copper and malachite production in prehistoric communities.
Traces of Khan al-Tujjar caravanserais found at foot of Mount Tabor
During excavations near Beit Keshet in Lower Galilee, Israel, archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have uncovered traces of a market within the historic Khan al-Tujjar caravanserais.
Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a side of veggies
New research on an extinct weasel relative reveals what it might have eaten when it lived in North America and Asia about 20 million years ago.
Ancient burial ground discovered at the Plain of Jars
Researchers are a step closer to unravelling one of the great prehistoric puzzles of South East Asia, after discovering an ancient burial ground, including human remains, at the Plain of Jars in central Laos.