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Homo luzonensis a new human species contemporaneous with Homo sapiens discovered in the Philippines
An international multidisciplinary team involving MNHN and CNRS, co-led by a MNHN senior lecturer of the H & E department, Florent Détroit,…
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Painted tomb discovered in Cumae (Italy): A banquet frozen in time
At the foot of the hill on which sits the ancient city of Cumae, in the region of Naples, Priscilla Munzi, CNRS researcher at the Jean Bérard Centre …
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Discovery of the earliest drawing
The oldest known abstract drawing, made with ocher, has been found in South Africa’s Blombos Cave—on the face of a flake of siliceous rock retrieved…
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Ancient Nubia (present-day Sudan): In the footsteps of the Napata and Meroe kingdoms
The archaeological site of Sedeinga is located in Sudan, a hundred kilometers to the north of the third cataract of the Nile, on the river's western…
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Unsaddling old theory on origin of horses
Botai horses were tamed in Kazakhstan 5,500 years ago and thought to be the ancestors of today's domesticated horses . . . until a team led by…
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Rock art: Life-sized sculptures of dromedaries found in Saudi Arabia
At a remarkable site in northwest Saudi Arabia, a CNRS archaeologistThe archaeologist is a research engineer at the Orient et Méditerranée research…
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