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The Next Ice Age Began Under the Roman Empire, Researchers Say, Until Global Warming Stopped It labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

The Next Ice Age Began Under the Roman Empire, Researchers Say, Until Global Warming Stopped It

About 2,000 years ago, while Augustus ruled Rome, a leftover patch of ice in the Canadian Arctic stopped shrinking and began to grow. A team from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, part of...

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Rome Banned Pagan Worship in 392, but a Thracian Temple May Have Kept It Going for Decades labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Rome Banned Pagan Worship in 392, but a Thracian Temple May Have Kept It Going for Decades

In November 392, the Roman emperor Theodosius I signed a law banning every pagan rite, including those performed in private. Against that date, the claim now coming from Bulgaria's National Museum of...

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A 2,800-Year-Old Bone Flute Turns Up at Troy in the Age of Homer, the First Musical Instrument Found after Years of Digging labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

A 2,800-Year-Old Bone Flute Turns Up at Troy in the Age of Homer, the First Musical Instrument...

In 160 years of digging at Troy, nobody had found anything you could play. Archaeologists have pulled walls, gates, jewelry, weapons and tableware out of the ground in huge quantities, but never an...

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A Roman “Highway Rest Stop” With Barracks-Style Rooms and a Bathhouse Found in Southern Spain labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

A Roman “Highway Rest Stop” With Barracks-Style Rooms and a Bathhouse Found in Southern Spain

Roman Spain had a network of official roadside stops for officials, soldiers and couriers, yet archaeologists know very few of them for certain. A new study may have added one. The building lies on...

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A 180-Foot-Long Stone Tomb With “Antennae” Found in Western Sahara Is Over 4,000 Years Old labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

A 180-Foot-Long Stone Tomb With “Antennae” Found in Western Sahara Is Over 4,000 Years Old

On a gravel plain in northern Western Sahara, with no shade for miles, there is a heap of stones 54.5 meters (179 feet) long. Two rows of stone slabs run out from it like the arms of a V that never...

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Rome Reshaped Spain’s DNA More Than the Visigoths Did, Ancient Genomes Show labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Rome Reshaped Spain’s DNA More Than the Visigoths Did, Ancient Genomes Show

In the early 5th century, a woman of high rank was buried beside an old Roman posting station on the Via Augusta, in what is now the province of Castellón. Her grave held a glass cup and two gold...

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Spain’s “Great Wall” Was Never Built: It Is a 2,750 Feet Rock Ridge That a Medieval Lord Turned Into a Fortress labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Spain's "Great Wall" Was Never Built: It Is a 2,750 Feet Rock Ridge That a Medieval Lord Turned...

From the viewpoint at the chapel of San Marcos, it looks like the work of an army of stonemasons. Two lines of pale limestone, almost vertical, run down a hillside and disappear into the green water...

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As Rome Expanded, Villagers in Portugal May Have Been Fixing Dye With Crushed Rock and Vinegar: A Pit Full of Flowers May Be the Leftovers of a 2,000-Year-Old Workshop labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

As Rome Expanded, Villagers in Portugal May Have Been Fixing Dye With Crushed Rock and Vinegar: A...

Almost nothing survives of what people wore in the Iron Age. Linen, wool and dyes are all organic matter, and in most soils they simply rot away. Archaeologists therefore tend to reconstruct the...

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A Gold Leaf Left for a Foreign God Points to a Greek Merchant Who May Have Supplied the Roman Army labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

A Gold Leaf Left for a Foreign God Points to a Greek Merchant Who May Have Supplied the Roman Army

Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The deity came from the borderlands of what is now southeastern Turkey. The offering...

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Study of 1,678 Children’s Past-Life Claims Finds a Pattern That Skeptical Families Show Most Strongly labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Study of 1,678 Children’s Past-Life Claims Finds a Pattern That Skeptical Families Show Most...

What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else? A team at the University of Virginia has not tried to answer that. It has measured something more concrete: how much time...

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A “Medieval” Spanish Village Church Is Really 1,200 Years Old, and Built From Roman Ruins labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

A "Medieval" Spanish Village Church Is Really 1,200 Years Old, and Built From Roman Ruins

The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kilometres southwest of Lugo. Until now, historians saw a simple rural church from...

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The Mystery of the “Five Foolish Virgins”: These Giant Stones Have Marked a Roman-Era Grave in Norway for 1,700 Years labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

The Mystery of the “Five Foolish Virgins”: These Giant Stones Have Marked a Roman-Era Grave in...

At the narrowest point of the Karmsundet, the channel that separates the island of Karmøy from the mainland on Norway’s west coast, five stones stand upright on a hillside. Some are more than five...

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The Forest That Stopped Roman Legions Hid a Shrine to Demeter, and Archaeologists Just Discovered Signs of Use Long Before the Etruscans labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

The Forest That Stopped Roman Legions Hid a Shrine to Demeter, and Archaeologists Just Discovered...

In 2006, the Carabinieri, Italy's national military police, raised the alarm about illegal digging in a forest of oaks and chestnuts near Vetralla, in the province of Viterbo, north of Rome. The...

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The Universe Should Be Empty — A Particle Physicists Ignored for Decades May Explain Why It Isn’t labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

The Universe Should Be Empty — A Particle Physicists Ignored for Decades May Explain Why It Isn’t

If matter and antimatter had come out of the Big Bang in equal amounts, there would be no stars today. Every particle has an antimatter twin with the opposite electric charge, and when the two meet,...

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Mad Honey: The Natural Poison That Knocked Out a Greek Army and Later Ambushed Roman Soldiers labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Mad Honey: The Natural Poison That Knocked Out a Greek Army and Later Ambushed Roman Soldiers

They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cliffs. What left them most exposed, only a few days from the sea, was a honeycomb....

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Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Neanderthal Hand Found in a Spanish Cave Still Holds Its DNA After 46,000 Years

Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Stone tools, butchered animal bones, the leftovers of their camps. What nobody had...

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Malta’s Mysterious 31 Miles of “Railway Tracks” in Solid Rock May Be Roman, Not Prehistoric labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Malta's Mysterious 31 Miles of "Railway Tracks" in Solid Rock May Be Roman, Not Prehistoric

On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cross, overlap and merge into one another. The spot, Misraħ Għar il-Kbir, is popularly...

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Who Made the Terracotta Army? 2,200-Year-Old Fingerprints Point to Men, Women and Children labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Who Made the Terracotta Army? 2,200-Year-Old Fingerprints Point to Men, Women and Children

About 2,200 years ago, someone pressed a finger into a lump of damp clay to stick down the flap of a suit of armour. The kiln sealed that print, and it has survived intact ever since. Now a team from...

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How a Dirty Diaper Helped a KGB Colonel Escape the Soviet Union labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

How a Dirty Diaper Helped a KGB Colonel Escape the Soviet Union

In November 1983, the Soviet Union came to believe that NATO might be preparing a nuclear attack. The trigger was a war game. The alliance's annual exercise, Able Archer 83, ran from 7 to 11 November...

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Hilltop Villages, African Ivory and Wounded Skeletons: How Small Communities Resisted The First Bronze Age Power in Spain labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/1…

Hilltop Villages, African Ivory and Wounded Skeletons: How Small Communities Resisted The First...

Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, stockpiling grain on a large scale and arming its warriors with halberds (blades...

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