300k-Year-Old Cave Site Explored in Northern Israel(archaeology.org)

28 points by andsoitis 3 months ago | 1 comments

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

106 points by marojejian 4 months ago | 46 comments

A 12,000-year-old obelisk with a human face was found in Karahan Tepe(trthaber.com)

394 points by fatihpense 1 year ago | 165 comments

TRT Haber Turkish-language photo gallery reporting the discovery of a 12,000-year-old standing stone with a human face at Karahan Tepe.

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

250 points by hilux 1 year ago | 187 comments

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

97 points by taubek 2 years ago | 27 comments

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found(nytimes.com)

480 points by bookofjoe 9 months ago | 249 comments

News article reporting that 430,000-year-old wooden handheld tools found at Marathousa 1 in Greece's Megalopolis Basin are the oldest known.

12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed(arkeonews.net)

327 points by khole 3 years ago | 196 comments

Arkeonews article on new finds at Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe, including a roughly 12,000-year-old human statue with a realistic facial expression.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege(reuters.com)

562 points by pseudolus 11 months ago | 224 comments

Reuters article on US court filings alleging Meta buried internal causal evidence that its social media platforms harm users; page showed a captcha verification.

Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved(newsingermany.com)

336 points by janpot 3 years ago | 164 comments

News article reporting that archaeologists in Germany found an exceptionally well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword.

Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics(ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com)

158 points by viraj_shah 27 days ago | 201 comments

Substack post analyzing Burning Man 2026 deaths against age-standardized national death rates, arguing its historically low rate reflects selection bias.

Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)

545 points by avinassh 1 year ago | 175 comments

Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.