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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Something Was Very Wrong With The Inca Empire -- DNA Just Proved It 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 6 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 14 660
How a 4,000-year-old city defied history's 'rules' by becoming more equal as it became more successful 0 erronis Tuesday Tuesday 20 502
Artifact: The Rolodex 3 Kali Apr 23 Sunday 5 523
Glad to see Judi Lynn is back! 10 mntleo2 May 3 May 4 63 1229
A New Discovery at Easter Island Could Rewrite History As We Know It 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 26 Apr 26 14 824
Ancient Korean society practiced human sacrifice and high inbreeding, researchers find 2 Judi Lynn Apr 10 Apr 22 5 841
220,000-Year-Old Quarry Site in South Africa Studied 4 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 16 945
Roman sanctuary unearthed beneath Frankfurt may have a dark past involving ritual human sacrifice 0 Judi Lynn Apr 9 Apr 9 14 635
Beadnet dress: A 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian funeral 'gown' that was in vogue during the Old Kingdom 4 Judi Lynn Apr 6 Apr 6 15 1078
Archaeologists Discovered an Ancient Projectile Inscribed With a Threatening Message 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 9 922
Iran Attacked Its Arab Neighbors -- Their DNA Explains Why 5 Warpy Mar 30 Apr 2 3 989
Ancient Maya Wetlands Reveal Settlement That Thrived Amid "Collapse" 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 30 1359
Humans have been gambling since the Ice Age 3 Judi Lynn Apr 2 Apr 2 13 800
Judi Lynn hasn't been here for a month. 12 Easterncedar Mar 28 Mar 28 49 2137
Archaeologists Found 23,000-Year-Old Footprints That Rewrite the Story of Humans in America 17 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Mar 28 62 3460
PBS Secrets of the Dead: Sunken 4th Century Basilica (full documentary 55:35) 0 eShirl Mar 19 Mar 19 6 864
Scientists Reveal the Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals and Early Humans 3 erronis Feb 28 Mar 9 5 1220
Humanity's oldest geometries, engraved on ostrich eggs 0 erronis Feb 25 Feb 25 6 890
(Archaeology with Flint Dibble): A New History of the Ancient Maya with Dr David Stuart 0 eShirl Feb 24 Feb 24 6 824
Archaeologists Believed Every Statue on This Island Had Been Found, Until One Emerged from a Lakebed 1 Judi Lynn Feb 23 Feb 24 15 1158
18,000-Year-Old Evidence of Human Brain Consumption Found in Poland's Maszycka Cave 7 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 13 1298
Archaeologists Launch 'Virtual Museum' To Ukraine's Ancient Heritage 2 Judi Lynn Feb 23 Feb 23 11 953
1.77-Million-Year-Old Homo erectus Crania in China Challenge Long-Held Timelines of Human Dispersal 4 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 14 1044
Ancient Greece's Deadliest Secret: Did a Hallucinogenic Fungus Power the Eleusinian Mysteries? 1 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 33 1432
Ancient Skies, Ancient Wisdom 2 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 23 14 1009
How Sumerians in Mesopotamia Perfected Asphalt-Like Materials 4,000 Years Ago 0 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 6 795
Extraordinary Discovery at Ness of Brodgar, Scotland: New 3D Scans Could Rewrite Neolithic History 1 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 19 1231
Championships Mark the Rebirth of a Dynamic Art Form 1 Judi Lynn Feb 22 Feb 22 12 900
New Research Reveals How Londoners Used Death Data to Survive the Great Plague 4 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 22 16 1102
"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older--and not Denisovans 2 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 22 21 1211

Anthropology Continued...

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Mystery of Armenia's Giant 6,000-Year-old 'Dragon Stones' is Finally Solved 3 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 21 27 1359
In the 3rd century, the Vikings' ancestors in Norway may have ravaged the North Sea 0 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 21 23 1188
ASI unearths around 4,000-year-old human settlement in Odisha 0 Judi Lynn Feb 21 Feb 21 11 777
430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 55 2026
Only Humans Have Chins -- and They Emerged as an Evolutionary Accident 12 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 19 1921
At a 'Tea Party' With Scientists, This Ape Showed Some Imagination 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 1178
Book Review: How Sickness Has Transformed Civilization 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 974
Ancient bone may prove legendary war elephant crossing of Alps 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 783
A Closer Look at King Tut's Footwear: The Pharaoh Was Buried With Over 80 Pairs of Sandals Made from Gold and Papyrus 10 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 1459
Ancient Inuits Seafarers Conquered the High Arctic 4000 Years Ago and Built Villages There Their travels shape the ecosy 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 15 918
Ancient DNA reveals Europe's last hunter-gatherers survived until 2500 BCE 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 890
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 11 1007
DNA Reveals the People Who Replaced Stonehenge's Builders Along With 90% of Britain's Population Came from a Dutch Swamp 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 1100
Hunter-gatherers took refuge in European 'water world' for millennia 2 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1048
Prehistoric discovery in Oregon cave older than Egypt's Great Pyramid rewrites human history 10 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 60 3072
2,000-Year-Old Iron Age Temple Discovered in Denmark Reveals Powerful Northern European Center 3 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 26 1447
Rules of mysterious ancient board game decoded by AI, scientists say 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 3 922
A 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites the story of ancient Egyptian tools 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 10 861
Archaeologists find 10,000-year-old rock art site in Egypt's Sinai 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 6 894
Archaeologists Uncovered a Lost City Hidden Beneath the Desert for 1,200 Years 1 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 13 1112
Cambridge students unearth Viking-era 'execution pit' 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 7 995
Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong 1 Eugene Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 1068
Oldest known sewn hide and other artifacts from Oregon caves shed light on early clothing in harsh climates 1 mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2026 Feb 2026 14 966
Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 9 972
These 500,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Discovered 0 Judi Lynn Feb 2026 Feb 2026 8 933
In 1940, A Dog Investigated A Hole In A Tree And Discovered A Vast Cave Filled With Ancient Human Artwork 5 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Jan 2026 46 2257
Leonardo da Vinci's DNA may be embedded in his art 2 Bayard Jan 2026 Jan 2026 11 1324
Giant stone monuments older than Stonehenge were built by an ancient 'water cult', archaeologists say 4 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Jan 2026 8 1470
3 Million Year-Old Tools Found Rewrite History 2 Gaugamela Dec 2025 Dec 2025 13 1487
A Massive Stone Wall Built 7,000 Years Ago Was Found Intact Beneath the Sea Off the Coast of France 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 31 1543

Anthropology Continued...

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Step inside the lost Native American city that rivalled medieval London 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 21 1633
Our primate ancestors evolved in the cold--not the tropics 7 Judi Lynn Aug 2025 Dec 2025 20 3488
"Seeking the Koko' Ta'ay"--Taiwan's Little People, Big Questions 1 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 5 1174
A New Study Revealed the Secret Origin of One of America's Most Mysterious Monuments 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 15 1342
Study Finds Golden Retrievers and Humans Share Genes for Anxiety and Intelligence 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Dec 2025 16 1641
Archaeologists in Wisconsin Unearth an Ancient 'Parking Lot' With 16 Dugout Canoes--Including One That's 5,200 Years Old 8 Judi Lynn Dec 2025 Dec 2025 27 2271
It Rivaled Ancient Egypt, Then Vanished: New Study Pinpoints Why the Indus Valley Fell 2 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 19 1494
Archaeologists Uncover Massive 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1520
Archaeologists Reveal Ancient, Single-Log Boats Used to Navigate Prehistoric England 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 10 1323
Aologist is racing to preserve Sudan's heritage as war threatens to erase its cultural past 1 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 4 1147
Native American city that rivalled medieval London 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 1338
DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 3 1072
People Sailed To Australia And New Guinea 60,000 years ago 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 5 1069
Easter Island Statue Construction Wasn't a Top-Down Affair 4 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1520
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney Neolithic site 7 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 38 2610
Massive prehistoric structure found near Stonehenge 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 18 1453
Neolithic 'amphitheater' uncovered at Karahantepe archaeological site 0 Judi Lynn Nov 2025 Nov 2025 11 1268
First-of-its-kind 3D model lets you explore Easter Island statues up close 5 erronis Nov 2025 Nov 2025 12 1567
A Stunning Taş Tepeler Discovery: 12,000-Year-Old Human Faces Emerge from Sefertepe 0 eShirl Nov 2025 Nov 2025 14 1346
Archaeologists lift the lid on a 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus hidden beneath Budapest 1 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 Nov 2025 15 1327
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