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Satellites, Parachutes, and Pottery Shards How Cold War spy photos are changing archaeology

When the Discoverer capsules were ejected with their spy film from the satellites, a line of nine recovery planes were spread out below the satellite’s path.

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Satellites, Parachutes, and Pottery Shards How Cold War spy photos are changing archaeology

Cold war spy satellites and artificial intelligence are now finding ancient ruins. Check out my new post on Substack.

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The Book of Kells has been kept at Trinity College since 1661. Photo of the Trinity College Library by Hanna May at Unsplash.

New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish

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The image depicts the magnificent Long Room of the Old Library at Trinity College Dublin, a grand, barrel-vaulted hall lined with towering bookshelves filled with ancient texts and adorned with marble busts. Trinity College has been the home of the Book of Kells since 1661.

A new study suggests the magnificent medieval Book of Kells may not have been made on Iona but at Portmahomack, a Pictish monastery in eastern Scotland, where decorated stone carvings closely match its ornate letters, challenging long-held beliefs about its origin.

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Evidence of cosmic impact discovered at classic Clovis archaeological sites Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of mammot...

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New study finds shocked quartz at 3 Clovis sites, bolstering the Younger Dryas comet-airburst theory. Researchers argue the blasts ~12.8k yrs ago helped wipe out mammoths & Clovis culture via fire, soot, and an “impact winter.” #Archaeology #Archeology #History #megafauna #Clovis

Evidence of cosmic impact discovered at classic Clovis archaeological sites Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of mammot...

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Sunken port may provide clue to Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s lost tomb The discovery near Alexandria comes after decades of hunting for Egypt’s last ruler by the lawyer turned archaeologist Kathleen Martínez

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“The Berlin Cleopatra, a Roman sculpture of Cleopatra VII wearing a royal diadem, mid-1st century BC (around the time of her visits to Rome in 46–44 BC), discovered in an Italian villa along the Via Appia. Altes Museum, Berlin”

Twenty years ago, Kathleen Martínez walked away from law. Today, her search for Cleopatra’s tomb led to a newly discovered port beneath the waters of Taposiris Magna in Egypt.

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Gothic gold necklace and Roman-era treasures unearthed in Poland’s Grodziec Forest Stunning finds in Poland’s Grodziec Forest reveal treasures from Roman times to a rare 5th-century Gothic gold necklace.

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A person equipped with a metal detector and shovel searches a grassy field.

Hobby metal-detectorists in Poland, searching for German V-2 rockets, unexpectedly found a stash of early medieval artifacts: coins, silver, and a gold necklace ~1,800 years old.

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The picture depicts a memorial for Ruth Bader Ginsburg (R.B.G.), featuring a sign with "R.I.P. R.B.G.", surrounded by flowers and lit candles.

Today the ABA’s Women Trailblazers Project released Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s oral history, offering firsthand insights on gender equality cases, Supreme Court dynamics, and legal strategy—an essential new source for scholars of constitutional and institutional history.

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