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'Cyber-archaeology' salvages lost Iraqi art (BBC, 2015)

Middle Egyptian Grammar by Dr. Gabor Toth -- texts, vocabulary, exercises, etc

Volcanic eruptions may have contributed to war in ancient Egypt (SMH, 2017)

Viking expert raises doubts over research claiming famous warrior was actually a woman (ABC, 2017)

Egypt had an unusually powerful 'female king' 5,000 years ago, lavish tomb suggests (Livescience, October 2023). Meret-Neith, wife of the First Dynasty pharaoh Djet. It's not clear if she reigned in her own right.

Ancient Egyptian papyrus describes dozens of venomous snakes, including rare 4-fanged serpent (Livescience, October 2023).

4,500-year-old Sumerian temple dedicated to mighty thunder god discovered in Iraq (Livescience, February 2023). The god in question is Ningirsu.

Falcon shrine with cryptic message unearthed in Egypt baffles archaeologists (Livescience, October 2022). "An ancient falcon shine in Berenike, an old port city in Egypt, has flummoxed archaeologists who aren't sure what to make of its headless falcons, unknown gods and cryptic message that reads, 'It is improper to boil a head in here.'"

500 Year-Old Love Letter Found Buried with Korean Mummy (IBT, 2013)

Ancient Viking warrior given a hero’s burial may have actually been ‘transgender, non-binary or gender fluid’, researchers say (Pink News, 2020) | Archaeologists say it’s not scientific to assume gender of ancient human remains (Pink News, 2022) -- not just gender, but sex, which can't always be accurately determined and may not dictate how someone lived, which is why there are multiple "Oops! Warrior was not a man!" news stories | 1,000-year-old skeleton may have been non-binary medieval warrior, say archaeologists (Pink News, 2021)

The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (Sci Am, November 2023) | Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’ (Science, June 2023)

Lost Ethiopian town comes from an ancient empire that rivalled Rome (NS, 2020) ie Aksum

Oldest legible sentence written with first alphabet is about head lice (NS, 2022)

Where was the first city in the world? (NS, nd)

Powerful photo by Pacific Indigenous artist reveals truth about 1899 painting (CNN, 2022). "Kihara also believes that Gauguin’s models may not be cisgender women, referencing the research of Māori scholar Dr. Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, who has written that the “androgynous” models he painted were likely Māhū – the Indigenous Polynesian community that, like Samoa’s Faʻafafine, are considered to be a third gender and express a female identity."

Egypt unearths 'world's oldest' mass-production brewery, dating back to era of King Narmer, more than 5,000 years ago (ABC, 2021)

Third Gender: An Entrancing Look at Mexico's Muxes (YouTube, 2017)

The Hidden Girls of Afghanistan (YouTube, 2017) | Inside the Lives of Girls Dressed as Boys in Afghanistan (NG, 2018) | I'm a Woman Who Lived as a Boy: My Years as a Bacha Posh (Time, 2014) | Bacha Posh: An Afghan social tradition where girls are raised as boys (The News Minute, 2018) | She is My Son Afghanistan's Bacha Posh, When Girls Become Boys (YouTube, 2018)

Did Aboriginal and Asian people trade before European settlement in Darwin? (ABC, 2018)

History of chocolate rewritten by cacao traces found on ancient pottery unearthed in Ecuador (ABC, 2018)

Earliest roasted root vegetables found in 170,000-year-old cave dirt (NS, 2020)

Religion from nature, not archaeology (Starhawk, 2001). Still an important document.