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You can imagine that popping maize kernels was first discovered by accident. Some maize probably fell into a cooking fire, and whoever was nearby figured out that this was a handy new way of preparing the food. | Photo Credit: pexels.com You have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods…
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Gabriel Zuchtriegel, director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park. File | Photo Credit: AFP Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii near the city of Naples have uncovered charcoal sketches drawn by children as young as six years old, depicting possibly violent fights they may have witnessed. The sketches of gladiator stick figures were discovered…
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Researchers uncover wooden artefacts on the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia, near where the oldest-known use of wood in construction was found, in this handout image taken in July 2019. | Photo Credit: Reuters Along the banks of the Kalambo River in Zambia near Africa’s second-highest waterfall, archaeologists have excavated two logs of…
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Archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Venture stock items of pottery of a three,000-year-old tomb which they consider may have honoured an elite spiritual chief within the Andean nation some 3 millennia in the past, in Pacopampa, Peru August 26, 2023. | Photograph Credit score: Reuters Archaeologists in northern Peru have unearthed a three,000-year-old tomb which…
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