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Ancient Egyptian rock art reveals two very different relationships between humans and animals
For thousands of years, prehistoric artists in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis carved humans and animals into desert rocks — but they did not always tell the same story. Some images show people and wildlife existing side by side in harmony, while others portray hunting, control and violence.
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Climate change threatens Egypt’s ancient rock art as Polish archaeologists race to document it
Thousands of ancient rock carvings scattered across Egypt’s Western Desert are slowly disappearing. Rising temperatures, stronger winds, increasingly regular heavy rainfall and human activity are damaging some of Africa’s richest collections of prehistoric art, while Polish archaeologists are working to document what remains before it is lost.
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Cannibalism disappeared because it was too costly for human survival
Cannibalism did not disappear by accident. It became too costly for the societies that practiced it, with long-term human consumption driving epidemics and ultimately contributing to population decline, according to a new study by Polish and Czech scientists.
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Polish archaeologists discover complex ancient water distribution system in Armenia
Archaeologists have identified more than 1,000 kilometres of ancient and modern water-management features near the former Urartian city of Argishtikhinili in Armenia, uncovering evidence of a vast irrigation system that helped transform the Ararat Basin into the agricultural heartland of the ancient kingdom more than 2,700 years ago.
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Study challenges view that Neolithic monument builders devastated Europe's forests
People who built monumental tombs in Central Europe about 5,600 years ago managed forests without causing widespread environmental destruction, using selective logging and rotational land use instead of large-scale burning, according to a new study.
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Parasites in 500-year-old burials reveal clues to diet and sanitation
Scientists have identified eight species of parasites in human burials from Chełm in eastern Poland dating back around 500 years, with most individuals showing evidence of multiple simultaneous infections, according to a study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
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Ancient DNA from Polish cave reveals Central Europe was key Neanderthal migration corridor
Central and Eastern Europe was not a peripheral region of the Neanderthal world but an important centre of migration, population exchange and social contacts, according to an international study of fossil remains discovered in southern Poland.
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Joint grave of two women marks first confirmed same-sex medieval burial in Poland
The remains of two unrelated women buried together in a medieval grave have been found in Poland, in what archaeologists say is the first genetically confirmed same-sex medieval burial in the country.
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Hundreds of monumental tomb structures have been discovered in Africa thanks to the analysis of satellite images
As many as 260 monumental tomb structures, associated with former pastoral communities, have been discovered in the desert area of Atbai in Africa, thanks to the analysis of satellite images. "We are not dealing with individual monuments, but with a vast cultural tradition," describes Dr. Maria C. Gatto from the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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