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A little-known French archaeologist, finally in the limelight (washingtonpost.com)

23 hours ago | diodorus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Science Museums Take Stock of 1.1B Objects from Around the World (nytimes.com)

3 days ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | best

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Jewelry made from beetles may have been a status symbol 2k years ago (atlasobscura.com)

4 days ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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The Pocahontas Exception (lrb.co.uk)

a week ago | diodorus | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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"The Earth Transformed" Review - why humans have always been under the weather (theguardian.com)

a week ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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A Body That’s Divine (nybooks.com)

a week ago | diodorus | nybooks.com | newest

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What was the impact of Julius Caesar’s murder? (historytoday.com)

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The Lion, the Land Bridge, and the New World (hakaimagazine.com)

2 weeks ago | diodorus | hakaimagazine.com | newest

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Bringing the Cotton Fragments to Life (blogs.bl.uk)

2 weeks ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Ancient DNA Reveals History of Hunter-Gatherers in Europe (nytimes.com)

3 weeks ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | newest

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The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History (atlasobscura.com)

3 weeks ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? (smithsonianmag.com)

a month ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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19th C. Paris turned the “hysterical” women of the Salpêtrière into a spectacle (lareviewofbooks.org)

a month ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Archaeological digs happening in the sky (theguardian.com)

a month ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Flesh and Page: The laborious process of making parchment (laphamsquarterly.org)

a month ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Anaximander and the Nature of Science (theguardian.com)

a month ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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4k-Year-Old Mummy May Be Egypt’s Oldest (hyperallergic.com)

a month ago | diodorus | hyperallergic.com | frontpage

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Revealing the Risqué Art of Pompeii’s House of the Vettii (atlasobscura.com)

a month ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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Known Unknowables (aeon.co)

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Page Turners: Literature in Ancient Egypt (britishmuseum.org)

a month ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

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Alexander the Great versus the Elephants (blogs.bl.uk)

a month ago | diodorus | bl.uk | best

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Did Ancient Egypt have a pigeon problem? (atlasobscura.com)

a month ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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The Archive Moles (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

2 months ago | diodorus | prospectmagazine.co.uk | frontpage

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Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest (smithsonianmag.com)

2 months ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | best

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Archaeologists Unearth 3k-Year-Old Wishing Well in Germany (smithsonianmag.com)

2 months ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Mummified Crocodiles Emerge from an Egyptian Tomb (nytimes.com)

2 months ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | newest

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How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes (lareviewofbooks.org)

2 months ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Idols and Good Old Gods (drb.ie)

2 months ago | diodorus | drb.ie | frontpage

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Amarna Letters (wikipedia.org)

2 months ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Like an Uncut Cake: The enduring appeal of the hard-copy encyclopedia (the-tls.co.uk)

2 months ago | diodorus | the-tls.co.uk | frontpage

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Unearthing the Original Mediterranean Diet (hakaimagazine.com)

2 months ago | diodorus | hakaimagazine.com | newest

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The oldest evidence for humans swimming is from 100k years ago (phys.org)

2 months ago | diodorus | phys.org | frontpage

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What fingerprints tell us about Jerusalem’s ancient artisans (smithsonianmag.com)

2 months ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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A War of Endless Controversy: Governing from History (laphamsquarterly.org)

3 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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London in the Roman World (lrb.co.uk)

3 months ago | diodorus | lrb.co.uk | best

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Archaeologists devise a better clock for Biblical times (nytimes.com)

3 months ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Papyrus by Irene Vallejo review – how books built the world (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ find of 1,300-year-old necklace dazzles historians (washingtonpost.com)

3 months ago | diodorus | washingtonpost.com | best

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Notre Dame’s uncovered tombs start to reveal their secrets (theguardian.com)

3 months ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Face to face with ancient Egyptians (news.harvard.edu)

3 months ago | diodorus | harvard.edu | best

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The Emperor and the Sun King (blogs.bl.uk)

3 months ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Boots the Bishop: On Albert Magnus (lrb.co.uk)

3 months ago | diodorus | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable? (historytoday.com)

4 months ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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The Family Lives of the Last Neanderthals (sapiens.org)

4 months ago | diodorus | sapiens.org | newest

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How different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed (theconversation.com)

4 months ago | diodorus | theconversation.com | frontpage

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Rewriting the Story of Ötzi, the Murdered Iceman (smithsonianmag.com)

4 months ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Tattoos on ancient Egyptian women appear to ask for protection during childbirth (phys.org)

4 months ago | diodorus | phys.org | best

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Tutankhamun’s Ostriches (historytoday.com)

4 months ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril (laphamsquarterly.org)

4 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Review of the Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (literaryreview.co.uk)

4 months ago | diodorus | literaryreview.co.uk | frontpage

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Vast and innumerable throngs of the ancient dead (laphamsquarterly.org)

4 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | best

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Ancient dung reveals early evidence for animal tending (uconn.edu)

5 months ago | diodorus | uconn.edu | frontpage

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Profitable to Posterity: Who should write history? (laphamsquarterly.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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The Death of Seneca (historytoday.com)

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Elites tried to monopolize hunting (mitpress.mit.edu)

5 months ago | diodorus | mit.edu | frontpage

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Policing the Necropolis (laphamsquarterly.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Eureka Finding the key to ancient Egypt (britishmuseum.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

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The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture (laphamsquarterly.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands (sciencenews.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | sciencenews.org | frontpage

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Findings show that the Vikings' self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome (phys.org)

5 months ago | diodorus | phys.org | best

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Hilary Mantel, Historian (bostonreview.net)

5 months ago | diodorus | bostonreview.net | frontpage

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The Controversy over English King Richard III's Remains (bbc.com)

5 months ago | diodorus | bbc.com | frontpage

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A Pardoner’s Tale (blogs.bl.uk)

5 months ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo (theguardian.com)

5 months ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Mercenaries Were More Common in Greek Warfare Than Ancient Historians Let On (smithsonianmag.com)

5 months ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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The Irish Reach (drb.ie)

6 months ago | diodorus | drb.ie | best

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Alpine Crystal Hunters (archaeology.org)

6 months ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | frontpage

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Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020)

6 months ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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Researchers piece together the story of a Roman city, one artifact at a time

6 months ago | diodorus | phys.org | frontpage

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Easy as ABC: What were the origins of the alphabet, before the Greeks?

6 months ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | newest

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A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids

6 months ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | best

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The Origin of the 30k-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf

6 months ago | diodorus | discovermagazine.com | newest

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change

7 months ago | diodorus | plos.org | frontpage

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Life in Litter: Mariana Castillo Deball’s Remarkable Roman Rubbish

7 months ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | newest

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Rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site in England

7 months ago | diodorus | livescience.com | frontpage

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Learning to Spell in Linear B: Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos

7 months ago | diodorus | cambridge.org | best

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Peak Document and the Future of History (2020)

7 months ago | diodorus | oup.com | frontpage

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A Bibliographical Mystery Solved

7 months ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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The Overlooked Indian Dynasties: On Anirudh Kanisetti’s “Lords of the Deccan”

7 months ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | best

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A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to ancient traditions

7 months ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | best

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Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

7 months ago | diodorus | science.org | frontpage

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Ice Age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles,' footprints reveal

7 months ago | diodorus | livescience.com | newest