'Our Romany culture is at risk of being lost'
Records show that Romany Gypsies lived on Sound Common from the 16th Century after emigrating from India. The site, which was ...
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Most Europeans may have had dark skin until less than 3000 years ago
Ancient DNA from 348 individuals suggests that pale skin became the predominant characteristic of people living in Europe ...
Rewriting History: New Discovery Reveals Hominins Left Africa 200,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought
New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...
Archaeologists unearth the remains of a Roman basilica on the site of a new London skyscraper
Archaeologists exploring the site of a planned 32-story office tower announced Thursday that they have unearthed the remains ...
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Ancient Europeans practiced cannibalism, eating both enemies and loved ones
Ancient Magdalenians practiced cannibalism, consuming enemies and possibly loved ones, revealing prehistoric violence.
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Ancient Romans Produced So Much Air Pollution That It Changed Europe’s Climate
While ancient Romans were capable of actively affecting the climate, we're far better at it than they were — and that should ...
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Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...
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Framing the past: How Roma people are depicted in Romanian and Greek schools
The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...
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Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust
Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million people murdered there. The remaining survivors are now mostly in their 90s and this might be ...
Ruins of ancient Roman home — with jars for collecting taxes — found in Libya. See it
The ruins of Ptolemais are in the modern-day city of Tolmeita, Libya. The country sits along the Mediterranean Sea in North Africa and borders Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia. Google ...