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Oops! Ancient Bronze Age shaman long assumed to be a man was actually a woman, DNA reveals A DNA analysis of a 4,000-year-old skeleton buried with an elaborate metalworking tool kit near Stonehenge has revealed that the individual, long assumed to be a male shaman, was actually a woman.
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Did ancient Egyptian princesses use weapons? Controversial study claims they hunted or trained with the military, but not all experts agree. Nearly 4,000-year-old skeletal remains show that several royal women repeatedly used their upper-body muscles. Researchers link those changes to archery and weapon training, but outside experts urge caution.
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Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared An ancient bronze chariot recently discovered in Spain was used by a culture that mysteriously disappeared from the archaeological record.
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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know where they came from. Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A new chemical analysis has revealed their tragic stories.
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'This was one of the most arduous expeditions I've ever done': Scientists confirm that 15-mile-wide pit found on Google Maps is ancient meteor crater Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a camping trail through Quebec's Côte-Nord region when he stumbled across a large indentation. Now, scientists have confirmed that the pit was indeed a meteor impact crater that dates back roughly 390 million years.
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New 3D silicon chip stacks circuits on top of each other to boost computing power Researchers have found a way to build a three-layered silicon chip without the chip overheating.
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Nobel Prize-winning physicist and team use Claude AI to solve decades-old math puzzle A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi and collaborator Francesco Zamponi have finally cracked the case — not with a radical new theory, but with the help of the generative AI Claude.
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