The discovery began with a blocked opening deep inside the Tulum archaeological zone, where archaeologists noticed a stone ...

The ancient world was shaped not only by empires and monuments but by the strange and symbolic rituals that people believed kept their worlds in balance. Across continents, civilisations practised ...

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A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

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