Episodi

  • Ancient Fingerprints Rewrite Who Crafted China’s Terracotta Army | Ancient Origins
    Oct 20 2026
    Ancient fingerprints suggest women and children helped build China’s Terracotta Army, challenging the belief that only men made the 2,200-year-old figures.
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    3 min
  • Japan’s Ancient Eruption Had Uneven Human Costs | Ancient Origins
    Oct 18 2026
    A new study reveals how Japan’s 7,300-year-old Kikai-Akahoya eruption caused collapse in some regions but population growth in others.
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    5 min
  • Was the Sphinx built 10,000 years ago? Fact check | Ancient Origins
    Oct 20 2026
    A 10,000-year-old Sphinx is Fringe: its quarry, temple blocks and Khafre's causeway place it in the Old Kingdom around 2500 BCE. Only which Fourth Dynasty king began it, Khafre or Khufu, is still Disputed.
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    7 min
  • 2,500-Year-Old Solar Observatory Confirmed in Mexico | Ancient Origins
    Oct 15 2026
    Archaeologists confirm a 2,500-year-old solar observatory in Puebla, Mexico, built to track the agricultural calendar beyond the Maya region.
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    4 min
  • Neanderthal DNA Preserved in 46,000-Year-Old Hand Bones | Ancient Origins
    Oct 19 2026
    Six hand-bone fragments from Spain’s Abauntz Cave preserve Neanderthal DNA and direct dates, opening a window on the species’ final millennia.
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    5 min
  • Neanderthal in Iraq May Bear Oldest Spear-Kill Wound | Ancient Origins
    Oct 15 2026
    A 75,000-year-old shoulder wound from Shanidar Cave may be the oldest evidence of a Neanderthal killed by a wooden spear.
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    3 min
  • Ancient Inequality Took Root in China Before the First States | Ancient Origins
    Oct 17 2026
    A study of 2,316 burials shows how ancient inequality took root in China before states through social networks, portable wealth and conflict.
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    4 min
  • Colosales estatuas de Ramsés II descubiertas en el delta del Nilo en Egipto | Ancient Origins
    Oct 14 2026
    Two colossal statues linked to Ramesses II have been found at Behbeit El-Hagar, revealing a possible earlier monument beneath Egypt’s Temple of Isis.
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    3 min