Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps(archaeologymag.com)

246 points by secretmark 1 year ago | 248 comments

Mystery as 4k-year-old axe-heads sent to museum(bbc.com)

80 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 80 comments

Neanderthals operated prehistoric “fat factory” on German lakeshore(archaeologymag.com)

250 points by hilux 1 year ago | 187 comments

4K years ago, Mohenjo-daro grew more equal over time(archaeologymag.com)

106 points by marojejian 4 months ago | 46 comments

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones(archaeologymag.com)

154 points by yusufaytas 1 month ago | 43 comments

Archaeology News article reporting the first two intact burials found at Göbeklitepe in Turkey and what they suggest about the site's scattered human bones.

Remains of an ancient Greek structure found in Croatia(arkeonews.net)

97 points by taubek 2 years ago | 27 comments

Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests(phys.org)

55 points by optimalsolver 15 days ago | 79 comments

Phys.org news article on ancient DNA research suggesting Scandinavia's first Neolithic farmers violently replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population.

Why the Bronze Age Collapsed(worksinprogress.news)

3 points by measurablefunc 25 days ago | 2 comments

A Works in Progress essay examining the causes of the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mediterranean civilizations.

Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal(science.org)

97 points by xqcgrek2 24 days ago | 47 comments

Science magazine news article reporting that analysis of uranium cubes shows Nazi Germany's experimental reactor lacked enough uranium and heavy water to succeed.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.

US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles(theguardian.com)

485 points by bloak 3 years ago | 869 comments

Guardian news article on calls for the US to disclose UFO evidence after a whistleblower claimed the government holds intact alien vehicles.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.