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An Egyptian mug from the second century B.C. at the Tampa Museum of Art that was found to have traces of hallucinogenic plants.

Psychedelic traces found on mug from ancient Egypt

Egyptians may have used hallucinogenic substances as part of a fertility rite, researchers say.

  • Alexander Nazaryan

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Some of the footprints of two humans pieces found side by side in Kenya.

Footprints show two human species crossed paths 1.5 million years ago

One had an ape-like big toe, the other a high arch. One was a juvenile, another had a stiff foot.

  • Will Dunham
Using a Lidar dataset, researchers revealed a previously unrecorded dense Mayan urban settlement, which they are calling Valeriana. 

More than 6000 Mayan structures discovered buried in Mexican jungle

The city, which has been named Valeriana by archaeologists, bears the hallmarks of an important regional capital.

  • Sarah Knapton
The Pantheon in Rome has boasted the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world for 2000 years.

Self-healing concrete? The Romans thought of that

Modern concrete is much less resilient than the concrete used in Roman times. Now researchers think they know why.

  • Amos Zeeberg
The Treasury in Petra.

‘Stunning’ hidden tomb found at Petra site featured in Indiana Jones

Researchers found at least 12 skeletal remains and artefacts – including a ceramic vessel that “looked nearly identical to the Holy Grail” in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

  • Annabelle Timsit
Leang Kerampuang, a dramatic karst hill in Sulawesi, Indonesia riddled with caves that host the world’s oldest rock art.

Inside the cave where Australians have uncovered the world’s oldest rock art

This extraordinary ancient image may be our oldest evidence of a story.

  • Angus Dalton
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The head of a statue of King Ramses II.

Egypt welcomes return of stolen 3400-year-old King Ramses statue

Egyptian authorities spotted the artefact - stolen decades before - when it was offered for sale in an exhibition in London in 2013.

Archaeologists have uncovered complexes of rectangular platforms arranged around low squares and along wide dug streets at the Kunguints site, Upano Valley in Ecuador.

Ancient cities to rival the Romans emerge in Amazon rainforest

A little-known culture built arrow-straight roads and canals through thick jungle to connect urban settlements where they ate sweet potatoes and drank beer.

  • Simeon Tegel
Part of the Palace of Aigai, built more than 2300 years ago during the reign of Alexander the Great’s father in ancient Aigai, Greece.

Greece unveils palace where Alexander the Great became king

The site of Palace of Aigai, near modern day Vergina in northern Greece, has undergone a 16-year renovation that cost more than $30 million.

  • Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris
The Anglo-Saxon mystery object unearthed in the UK.

Archaeologists stumped by Anglo-Saxon artefact ‘completely unlike’ any other

Despite the skill which would have been required to make it, the roughly 1200-year-old object has no apparent purpose.

  • Craig Simpson

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