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Archaeologists Discover Mosaics of Two Fighting Cupids and a Mysterious Inscription at an Ancient Greek City Hall
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
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HOPKINS: I have a landscape stone masonry business called Naturalistic ... how impressive do you find it that the ancient Egyptians managed to raise these objects? HOPKINS: I've found that when ...
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Innovative architects are using an ancient technique to design new structures from old waste — here's how it works
An ancient building technique known as Cyclopean masonry could help today's architects design modern structures by using material waste. The Cannibal's Cookbook, an architectural handbook produced ...
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Ancient stone walls and power: what data science tools can reveal in African archaeology
In both ancient and modern contexts ... Today, all that is left of these sites are the stone wall ruins. These settlements were densely populated. They consisted of central kraals (livestock ...
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World’s oldest rune stone has more pieces that contain mysterious messages, researchers say
Archaeologists who originally unearthed the oldest known rune stone in 2021 while investigating an ancient grave site in eastern Norway found the large piece covered with traces of runes.
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An ancient Roman basilica has been discovered below London's financial district
exploratory pits two years ago until stone walls several feet thick and dozens of feet long were exposed. "In one trench, we hit a massive piece of masonry — it was about three or four feet wide ...