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  Man Solves 20,000-Year-Old Cave Drawings Mystery That’s Been Stumping Archeologists

  My Modern Met - Madeleine Muzdakis

  Early humans, and our now extinct cousins, Neanderthals, have a long artistic history. Ancient cave art began as abstract shapes and handprints; but over thousands of years, it evolved into recognizable sketches of animals and plants. Many of the oldest cave paintings are in Spain and France. These …

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  Ancient Egyptians were so into oral sex, they put it in their religion — and religious art

  Salon - Matthew Rozsa

  The popular perception of Western history is that humans have grown less puritanical over time; compare, for instance, how the sight of an ankle (on a man or woman) was considered shocking in 18th and 19th-century Victorian culture. Given our current attitudes towards clothing, clearly something …

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  Maybe rats didn't spread the Black Death after all, new evidence suggests

  Live Science - Samuel Cohn

  Recent research suggests rats may not have played the critical role in keeping plague going in Europe. The black rat, or ship rat, was thought to have …

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  Roman wood writing tablet with ink found in Sens

  thehistoryblog.com - livius drusus

  Dozens of ancient wells and latrines rich in preserved organic remains have been unearthed in Sens, north-central France. They date to between the …

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  Dozens in 7,000 Year Old Mass Grave Were Carefully Decapitated After Death

  ScienceAlert - Marianne Guenot

  Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old mass grave in Slovakia containing 38 skeletons, with all but one decapitated. The remains were found …

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  New Dinosaur Egg Species Helps Crack Mystery of Cretaceous Ecosystem in Japan

  scitechdaily.com - University of Tsukuba

  Fossilized eggshells from Gifu Prefecture, Japan, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, reveal previously unknown egg species from a small …