Archaeology
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Lost English legend decoded, solving Chaucerian mystery and revealing a medieval preacher’s meme
University of CambridgePeer-Reviewed Publication
A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge scholars now believe the Song of Wade, a long lost treasure of English culture, was a chivalric romance not a monster-filled epic. The discovery solves the most famous mystery in Chaucer's writings and provides rare evidence of a medieval preacher referencing pop culture in a sermon.
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- The Review of English Studies
University of Houston archaeologists discover tomb of first king of Caracol
University of HoustonBusiness Announcement
Archaeologists from the University of Houston working at Caracol in Belize have uncovered the burial of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of this ancient Maya city and the founder of its royal dynasty, marking the first identifiable ruler's tomb found in over four decades of work in Caracol, the largest Maya archaeological site in Belize and in the Maya lowlands.
Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials - while local donkeys were part of the menu - in the Early Bronze Age in present-day Israel, per analysis of four complete donkey skeletons and other remains
PLOSPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- PLOS One
Researchers find crab and clam resilience etched into shells
Hakai InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Biological Conservation
Regional disparities in US media coverage of archaeology research
Harvard UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
- Journal
- Science Advances
Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt
The Francis Crick InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the oldest Egyptian DNA to date from an individual who lived around 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, the age of the first pyramids, in research published today in Nature.
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- Nature