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The mystery of the prehistoric Nuraghi unveiled: a study reveals the engineering that keeps Sardinia’s millennia-old towers standing

In the unique landscape of Sardinia, dotting hills and valleys, rise mysterious stone constructions that have defied time and ...
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The burial of Paganini, the violinist whose genius was attributed to a pact with the devil, was not authorized by the pope until 36 years after his death

With permission from masters such as Yehudi Menuhin, Pablo Sarasate, Joseph Joachim, Eugène Ysaÿe, and perhaps a more modern one—let’s say Jascha Heifetz or Itzhak Perlman—there is one musician who is ...
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A unique Bronze Age community survived in a Calabrian massif devoted to herding and consuming milk and dairy products, despite being lactose intolerant

For the first time, a scientific team has succeeded in reconstructing the complete genetic and social profile of a ...
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This was the women-led society that lasted a thousand years, where “foreigners” could prosper and attain high social standing in Iberian Copper Age society

An international team of archaeologists, geneticists, and anthropologists has succeeded in tracing the most detailed portrait to date of a Copper Age society in Europe. The setting is the mega-site of ...
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Dzibanché was the capital of the Kaanu’l lineage of the Serpent Kings who dominated Maya politics for two centuries

The Archaeological Zone of Dzibanché, a vast complex of approximately 65 square kilometers located in southern Quintana Roo, ...
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Largest Dinosaur Tracksite in the Alps Discovered in Stelvio National Park: An Intact Late Triassic Landscape That Will Rewrite European Paleontology

A stretch several kilometers long of almost vertical dolomitic walls in Stelvio National Park preserves the trace of a ...
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A colossal and enigmatic cosmic explosion erupted before Earth even existed — we are witnessing it now, and it could point to something entirely new and unexpected

A gamma-ray burst of unprecedented duration and behavior, detected last July, is keeping the international astrophysics ...