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When archaeology wasn’t ‘ladylike,’ women still shaped the field, one dig at a time
The first women archaeologists in history were Victorian-era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it.’ This was the opening line of Amanda Adam’s book Ladies of the field ...
Unique marks on 2,000-year-old skeleton of ‘Red Princess’ shed light on ancient Chinese civilisation
Archaeologists have identified what caused unusual red dye marks on the remains of a young woman who lived 2,200 years ago in ...
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2,200-year-old grave in China contains 'Red Princess of the Silk Road' whose teeth were painted with a toxic substance
Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...
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Archaeologists Found a Life-Size Fresco of a Mysterious Cult in Pompeii
In the room next door, archaeologists found a black reception ... At the center of the art is a clothed woman with an old Silenus (a god of wine-making and drunkenness and tutor to Dionysus ...
ASI conducts another round of underwater exploration in Dwarka
In continuation of the brief fieldwork conducted last month, a team of Underwater Archaeology Wing (UAW) of the ...
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The nun who lived in chains: First-ever evidence of extreme asceticism found near Jerusalem
the IAA's Jerusalem District Archaeologist, further discussed the phenomenon. “Ascetic nuns represent a fascinating phenomenon worth dwelling on, and even more so with International Women's Day ...
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Archaeologists Discover Tomb of Unknown Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh
Around the same time as the excavations in Abydos, a group of archaeologists from the Supreme ... including a child in a fabric cap and the skull of a woman in her 30s, suggest the site was ...