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How Peaches Spread Across North America

Peach illustration by Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1885)) UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA—According to a statement released by Penn State University, while peaches were likely first introduced to North America by Spanish explorers, the fruits traveled across the continent along Indigenous networks starting in the early 16th century. Indigenous populations quickly adopted and …

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Some Neolithic Bakers Made Focaccia-Like Bread

‘Focaccia’ experimentally baked with animal fat in a replica husking tray inside a domed oven BARCELONA, SPAIN—According to a statement released by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), researchers from the UAB, Rome’s University La Sapienza, the Milà I Fontanals Institution, and France’s University of Lyon suggest that Late Neolithic …

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Origins of Faroe Island Viking Settlers Examined

Village of Saksun, Faroe Islands TORSHAVN, FAROE ISLANDS—An archipelago of 18 islands lying in the North Atlantic roughly halfway between Norway and Iceland, the Faroe Islands were colonized by Norse settlers sometime between a.d. 872 and 930. According to the Færeyinga Saga, a later literary account of that event, a …

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Pylon of Ptolemaic Temple Found at Athribis

CAIRO, EGYPT—The National News reports that a joint Egyptian-German archaeological team led by Mohamed Abdel Badie of the Central Administration for Upper Egypt Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen unearthed a temple pylon on the western side of the main temple at the site of Athribis in …

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Looted Etruscan Sarcophagi Recovered

ROME, ITALY—Italian police seized an array of third-century b.c. Etruscan artifacts that looters had found on their own land in the Umbrian town of Città della Pieve and had attempted to sell on the black market, according to a report in The Straits Times. Two sarcophagi, eight stone urns carved …

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