Reading about Gobekli Tepe reminds me of an old fascination of mine: namely that we still don't know how the heck ancient peoples moved and precisely placed the 800-1000 ton Temple of Baalbek Trilithon stones. I mean, it would be incredibly hard/maybe impossible to move those things *today*.
Tales of collapse may be imperial propaganda.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-great-myth-of-empire-collapse
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Different Neanderthal clans had their signature dishes, among them rotten meat with maggots.
A series of recent investigations suggests that the first human communities passed on their particular culinary traditions between generations.
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**Archeologists find surprise signs of British rule in Florida**
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French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the Ségognole 3 cave, located in the famous sandstone massif south of Paris. This engraving, dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, could be the oldest three-dimensional map ever found. The research, published in the Oxford Journal of Archae