A 5-year-old accidentally smashed a 3,500-year-old artifact on a museum trip in every parent's worst nightmare

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A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.
A 3,500-year-old jar lies smashed in pieces at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel.

Hecht Museum

A 4,000-year-old lipstick uncovered in Iran may be the oldest ever found. It's uncannily similar to modern ones.

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A picture shows a stone container next to a close up up pigment.
This stone tube was found to contain pigment that may have been an early lip paint, said researchers.

M. Vidale, F. Zorzi/Eskandari et al Sci Rep 14, 2670 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52490-w. CC BY 4.0

Scientists thought an ancient tomb had been lost 170 years ago until one expert discovered it practically right in his backyard

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A white stone stands upright in a field on a hill in Ireland
Billy Mag Fhloinn took photos of a stone that he later realized belonged to a lost Bronze Age tomb.

Seán Mac an tSíthigh

Multiple sclerosis is more common among white Europeans. Researchers studying ancient DNA may have figured out why.

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Bronze decorated with horses, people, parasites, and DNA
Researchers have traced genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis to a population of herders who arrived in Europe 5,000 years ago.

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Archaeologists used Google Earth to help find 3,000 square miles of prehistoric settlements from a new-found civilization in Central Europe

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Farmland seen from above with faint whitish circles representing the Tisza Site Group settlements
Google Earth images helped researchers spot the Tisza Site Group settlements.

Barry Molloy

A mysterious 4,000-year-old slab may be a treasure map that could point the way to long-lost Bronze Age riches

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A picture shows the engravings on the slab dots and cups carved in the rock are tied together by lines.
The Saint-Bélec slab was long a mysterious set of engravings, but scientists now think it's a map that could point to long-lost archaeological sites.

D. Gliksman

Ancient people may have used human skulls for cups and other body parts for tools, according to a burial site in Spain

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The opening of Cueva de los Marmoles in Spain, which is dark inside and shows greenery and rocks outside
The opening to Cueva de los Marmoles, where many prehistoric people buried their dead for millennia.

J.C. Vera Rodríguez, CC-BY 4.0

5,000-year-old cauldrons of the Bronze Age are so well preserved they offer archeologists the 'first evidence' of an ancient feast consisting of milk and meat

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A 5,000-year-old Bronze Age cauldron that's very oxidized and a artist rendering if what it looked like when used by the Maykop people
One of the 5,000-year-old pots where reseaerchers found animal proteins (left). An artist reconstructed what the cauldron would look like toady (right).

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