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Egyptologists, writers, scholars, and others, have argued the race of the ancient Egyptians since at least the 1970’s. Some today believe they were Sub-Saharan Africans. We can see this interpretation portrayed in Michael Jackson’s 1991 music video for “Remember the Time" from his "Dangerous" album. The video, a 10-minute mini-film, includes performances by Eddie Murphy and Magic Johnson. 
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USING THE LARGEST SET OF RADIOCARBON DATES EVER OBTAINED FROM A SINGLE MAYA SITE, ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE DEVELOPED A HIGH-PRECISION CHRONOLOGY THAT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON PATTERNS LEADING UP TO THE TWO MAJOR COLLAPSES OF THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATION.
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For the first time Japanese archaeologists have unearthed ancient Roman coins at the ruins of an old castle.
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Early writings found under office block being cleared for new Bloomberg HQ give glimpse of Roman London
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This is the text of a presentation I made yesterday at a wonderful Columbia University symposium called Insuetude (still ongoing), which is bringing media archaeologists together with stones-and-bones archaeologists. I started my talk with a bit of film, as a way of time-traveling to the middle of my theme, in part for the pleasure of taking a jarring step back out. Please watch the first 90 seconds or so of The Last Angel of History, a brilliant 1996 documentary by John Akomfrah. You can catch it in this clip. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
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Only five or fewer woolly mammoths have been uncovered so extensively in Michigan Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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Earlier this year, the remains of 95 people were found just outside Houston at a construction site for a new school. After analyzing the remains, archaeologists announced on Monday that newly discovered bones belonged to former enslaved African American who were still forced to work on plantations post-emancipation.
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Archaeologists discovered a previously unknown ancient city in central Greece north of Athens, and could date some remains back to 500 BC. Via Fernando de la Cruz Naranjo Grisales
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Archaeologists using satellite imagery discover a huge, ceremonial monument at the Petra World Heritage site in southern Jordan.
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Archaeologists at the University of York have undertaken pioneering scans of the highest prehistoric paintings of animals in Europe.
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The calcite-encrusted skeleton of an ancient human, still embedded in rock deep inside an Italian cave, has yielded the oldest Neanderthal DNA yet, molecules up to 170,000 years old. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
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