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Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks

13 February 2026 at 05:04
Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant mammals in the Punic Wars.

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A Renaissance-era fresco attributed to Jacopo Ripanda depicting Hannibal on the back of an elephant during the Second Punic War, in the third century B.C.
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Rebuilding the Lighthouse of Alexandria, Block by Virtual Block

6 February 2026 at 08:42
An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious archaeological project aims to reassemble it in 3-D.

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A 19th-century engraved depiction of the Pharos of Alexandria.

430,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Are the Oldest Ever Found

26 January 2026 at 17:40
The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought.

Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution

7 January 2026 at 11:01
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins.
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