They fought the Egyptians, sacked Babylon, and built elaborate cities. Then the Hittites vanished. Today, new discoveries are ...

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In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

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While on a hike with her family, a child stumbled across a 3,800-year-old Egyptian amulet. It will go on display in an ...

Over the weekend, three Italian researchers looking in to the Giza necropolis - Professor Corrado Malanga and Filippo Biondi from the University of Pisa and University of Strathclyde respectively, ...

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