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Record Drought Exposes Buried Roman City and Redraws the Map of Ancient Switzerland
Warhorse Buried With Honours: Egypt's 3,000-Year-Old Desert Fortress Gives Up Its Secrets
At Tell al-Abqain in the Nile Delta, a ceremonial horse burial, royal stelae naming Ramesses II and Merneptah, and entire streets of mudbrick homes reveal daily life inside a New Kingdom frontier fortress.
A Piece of the World's Oldest Peace Treaty Resurfaces in Türkiye After 3,200 Years
Announced on the International Day of Peace, a cuneiform fragment from the Hittite capital of Hattusa preserves treaty clauses on fugitives fleeing between Egypt and Hatti — diplomacy from the 13th century BCE.
The Classroom That Made Alexander Great: New Digs Reveal Aristotle's School at Mieza
Greek officials have announced this season's finds at the royal gymnasium of Mieza in northern Greece: mosaic-floored halls, lecture rooms and banquet chambers where scholars believe a teenage Alexander studied under Aristotle.
First Graves Ever Found at Göbekli Tepe Rewrite the Story of the World's Oldest Monumental Site
Published in PLOS One on 22 September 2026, the study by Julia Gresky and Lee Clare reports the site's first two intact burials — and proposes that a shifting hillside, not ritual, scattered hundreds of bones across the stone circles.
A Brief History of the Internet: From ARPANET to the AI Era
In barely fifty years, a military research project became the foundation of modern life. A timeline of the people, breakthroughs and turning points that built the internet.
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A Brief History of the Internet: From ARPANET to the AI Era
Warhorse Buried With Honours: Egypt's 3,000-Year-Old Desert Fortress Gives Up Its Secrets
First Graves Ever Found at Göbekli Tepe Rewrite the Story of the World's Oldest Monumental Site
The Classroom That Made Alexander Great: New Digs Reveal Aristotle's School at Mieza