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 Plaster cast of a Pompeii victim found in the ancient city

New DNA discovery changes assumptions about Pompeii victims

 Cuneiform writing.

Study reveals earliest point in writing related to trading symbols

 Mount of Temptation, Jericho.

With more than 11,000 years of history, Jericho is the oldest inhabited city in the world

 Pterosaurs Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. Image by Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chinese Scientists Discover World's Smallest Dinosaur Eggs, Shedding Light on Theropod Evolution

 Mount Everest. Image by Dnor licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

National Geographic team finds Andrew Irvine's boot on Mount Everest after 100 years

 Grand Egyptian Museum.

Grand Egyptian Museum opens 12 exhibition halls in trial operation

 Sverresborg. Image by Cato Edvardsen is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

DNA analysis links medieval skeleton found in well to events in the Sverris Saga

 "Scene inspired by the Battles of Alexander the Great," attributed to Panayiotis Douxaras (1662-1729).

Ancient purple fabric found in Vergina tomb may be Alexander the Great's sacred tunic

 The boat-shaped mound lies just two miles from the Turkey-Iran border

Discovery reignites search for Noah’s Ark in Turkey’s mountains

Bread

Pass the breadsticks: Ancient humans loved carbs, study finds

 Mount Ararat in Armenia. October 6, 2017.

Archaeologists unearth ruins of 4th-century church, oldest in Armenia

 Ruins from the villages of Ashopton and Derwent in the Upper Derwent Valley in Derbyshire, England. November 6, 2018.

Archaeologists uncover evidence of continuous 6,000-year settlement in England

The Treasury room in Al Khazneh, Petra, Jordan, 24 March 2011.

Archeologists find 12 hidden tombs with intact skeletons beneath Petra treasury

 A skeleton from excavation in Åsum

Archeologists discover Viking-era skeletons in central Denmark

 The Judahite stamp impressions are being displayed to the public for the first time at at the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein National Campus for the Archaeology of Israel.

Recent excavations reveal King Sennacherib's military impact on the economy of the Kingdom of Judah

By ZIV REINSTEIN
 Eddie's coffin.

‘Lady of the house’: Governor daughter’s grave uncovered in Egypt during archaeological cleaning

An exhibit shows the life of a neanderthal family in a cave in the new Neanderthal Museum in the northern town of Krapina February 25, 2010.

New Neanderthal lineage discovered in France

 The stone seal found in Jerusalem.

Rare archaeological stone seal uncovered in Jerusalem