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Received — 5 October 2026 ⏭

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15 Clay Tablets From Ur Reveal Unknown Places, an Ancient Princess Whose Farm Ran on Its Own Rules, and a Village Inhabited by Prisoners of War 5 October 2026 at 16:50

15 Clay Tablets From Ur Reveal Unknown Places, an Ancient Princess Whose Farm Ran on Its Own Rules, and a Village Inhabited by Prisoners of War

5 October 2026 at 16:50

Each of these tablets fits in the palm of a hand. The smallest measures a little over 3 centimetres (1.3 inches) across and the largest 11.5 (4.5 inches), and nearly all of them deal with the least glamorous things a museum can hold: sacks of barley, daily wages, the size of ditches. Read together, though, […]

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Egypt’s Earliest Kings Were Buried Among Hundreds of Servants — Forensics Finally Finds Signs of Violent Deaths 5 October 2026 at 10:15

Egypt’s Earliest Kings Were Buried Among Hundreds of Servants — Forensics Finally Finds Signs of Violent Deaths

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By: Guillermo Carvajal

5 October 2026 at 10:15

Around 5,000 years ago, when writing was in its infancy and Egypt had just been united under a single king, the first pharaohs picked a patch of desert at Abydos, in Upper Egypt (the southern part of the country, upriver on the Nile), as their final resting place. The spot is called Umm el-Qaab, Arabic […]