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During the excavation of a known Roman battle site in the Swiss Alps, archaeologists chanced upon a hoard of 80 artifacts dating to the late Bronze Age. Some of the stand-out objects include sickles, ...

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Have you ever wondered why Chinese visual culture is full of images of dragons, phoenixes and other mythical creatures? Archaeologists certainly have. For centuries, they searched in vain for their ...

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