The Ancient Origins News Desk

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At Ancient Origins we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ou... more

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December 30, 2025 Rice Beer Was Consumed in Sacred Rituals 9,000 Years Ago in China | Ancient Origins
Research in China has found beer drinking was going on thousands of years earlier than previously proven, and also found some of the oldest pottery artwork.
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7min
December 29, 2025 Bronze Age Burial Reveals Ancient Chinese Red Rice Wine Recipe | Ancient Origins
Bronze Age pottery from Mogou cemetery reveals ancient Chinese red rice wine made using qu fermentation with Monascus mold and rice, consumed in burial rituals 4,000 years ago, and still used today!
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4min
December 29, 2025 Ancient Horse Bone Skates Reveal Winter Innovation | Ancient Origins
Archaeologists uncover ancient horse bone skates on Russia's Taman Peninsula, revealing ingenious winter transportation methods used by Bosporan Kingdom communities to cross frozen waterways.
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5min
December 29, 2025 Black Bones of a Polish Princess Modeled by Tech Geniuses | Ancient Origins
Archaeologists thought the blackened bones of a Polish ‘princess’ couldn’t be reconstructed in a 3D model but some tech wizards overcame the challenge.
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4min
December 28, 2025 Excavation of Roman Bath Complex Challenges Lifestyle Beliefs | Ancient Origins
An excavation in Greece has found a collection of edifices that are challenging previously held beliefs of the lifestyle and production in the Roman Empire.
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6min
December 28, 2025 Stitching the Story of Cutwork Embroidery, One of the Most Luxurious Goods in Europe | Ancient Origins
Different types of embroidery are known in the history of every single civilization.
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7min
December 28, 2025 Ancient Art Therapy? Chinchorro Mummification as Emotional Healing | Ancient Origins
New research suggests Chile's 7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummies originated as art therapy, helping ancient hunter-gatherers cope with infant mortality through elaborate artistic mortuary practices.
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10min
December 27, 2025 Early Humans Out of Africa: 1.8 Myo Tooth Found in Orozmani, Georgia! | Ancient Origins
Georgia’s Orozmani site was already famous, but now it has become the location of the oldest human remains outside of Africa, with the discovery of a 1.8-mya human tooth.
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5min
December 27, 2025 Scientists Say that One of the Legendary Six Pagodas of Mahabalipuram Has Been Discovered | Ancient Origins
The ruins of a temple were glimpsed during the 2004 Asian Tsunami when the shoreline receded in Mamallapuram (also kn
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4min
December 27, 2025 Two Species Left Africa Together 1.8 Million Years Ago | Ancient Origins
New analysis of Dmanisi fossils suggests two distinct hominin species migrated from Africa together 1.8 million years ago, challenging traditional Out of Africa theory with Skull 5's primitive features.
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6min

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