Bones Suggest Women Went to War in Ancient Iran
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These days Iranian women are not even allowed to watch men compete on the football field, but 2,000 years ago they could have been carving the boys to pieces on the battlefield.
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Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe show that the region's population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study.
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Raffaela La Pasta is not sure but thinks that the still half-buried skeleton she is unearthing in downtown Rome is female, and at least 1,600-years-old.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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Complex skull operations were being performed as early as 960AD, remains of a body found at an archaeological dig show.
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ROCKTAIL BAY, South Africa  - The signs of the  scuffle were fresh but it is a struggle that has gone on for  tens of millions of years.
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A study of 7,000-year-old pig remains gives new insight into the migration of Middle Eastern people into Europe.
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What did the first Olympians eat? Food historians are scouring ancient texts to find out.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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Archaeologists have begun excavating ancient skeletal remains believed to be those of five people, probably Anasazis.
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LONDON - Fashionable women in ancient Rome applied a beauty cream that wasn&#39;t all that different from today&#39;s cosmetics, researchers say.
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Careful study of the wrist bones from the prehistoric "Hobbit" bolster the idea that the creature was a distinct human species.
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The discovery of four fossil skeletons of human ancestors in Georgia, a former Soviet republic, offers a look at a species in transition.
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They are the shock troops of Iran&#39;s Islamic Revolution - the men who helped seize the US embassy a generation ago and bore the brunt of their country&#39;s eight-year war with Iraq.
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The first analysis of a rare Roman skin cream shows that it is similar to modern equivalents and suggests that women went to the same lengths to look beautiful two thousand years ago as they do today.
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A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah &#151; possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.