Expert team works to prepare ancient Etruscan exhibit this summer at Legion of Honor

In a quiet lab at the DeYoung Museum, art conservators are combining centuries-old clues with modern technology to prepare an ...

2,000-year-old artifact may be evidence that Romans found New World — a thousand years before Columbus

Was there a New World order we didn’t know about? The discovery of a 2,000-year-old Roman artifact in Mexico could upend our ...
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40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A figurine called Adorant from Geissenkloesterle Cave, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, ...
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Symbols found carved into 40,000-year-old artifacts may be precursor to writing

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 40,000-year-old mammoth figurine bears markings that researchers say might be an early precursor to writing. - Hildegard ...
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40,000-year-old German artifacts may display written language precursor

WASHINGTON — A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 — crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in ...