Ancient seafarers: new evidence of early Southeast Asian sea voyages

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New evidence is being found for early dates of human colonization in Southeast Asia and Australia, including ancient sea crossings. Many researchers now accept a date of 60,000 years ago for the arrival of humans in Australia, but more controversial evidence from Jinmium rock-shelter could put the date back beyond 116,000 years ago. A Dutch-Indonesian team claims to have found traces of humans at Mata Menge on Flores island, Indonesia, just above a stratum dated 730,000 years ago. By 33,000 years ago, humans had traveled by sea to Golo and Wetef caves on Gebe Island in the northern Moluccas.

Australia, Ocean travel, History, Prehistoric peoples, Southeast Asia, Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric, Prehistoric land settlement patterns

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Trajan's glorious forum: one of ancient Rome's preeminent public spaces dazzles on paper as it must have in stone

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Emperor Trajan, who ruled the Roman Empire from AD 98 to 117, ordered construction of a new forum to explain and glorify his wars of conquest to the Roman people. Today, the ruins of this forum do little to suggest its former beauty, symmetry, and scale. A new archaeological map of Trajan's forum, based on prior research combined with modern techniques such as virtual-reality modeling, provides a more complete picture of this ancient complex.

Italy, Cover Story, Biography, Rome (Ancient state), Rome, Italy, Excavations (Archaeology), Trajan, Emperor of Rome

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