A study led by McKenna Litynski, a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...

A growing number of ancient Egyptian stone vases are being digitally scanned and analyzed with modern engineering tools. The ...

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Ancient sewing needles helped humans survive freezing climates by enabling tailored clothing, while also serving many other uses.

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In the collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is a small copper-alloy tool from a cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt. It is just 63 millimeters long ...

A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest containing work on the sphere and cylinder has been identified in France.

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A study led by McKenna Litynski, a recent Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of ...