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US news
fromwww.npr.org
3 days ago

Opinion: An ancient, sophisticated palate

Ancient people 5,000-8,000 years ago in northern Europe prepared sophisticated, carefully selected meals combining hunted fish, gathered plants, roots, and berries, suggesting deliberate culinary practices rather than simple subsistence eating.
History
fromArs Technica
5 days ago

Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar

The Ychsma kingdom maintained a sophisticated long-distance trade network spanning hundreds of kilometers across the Andes to import live parrots from the Amazon rainforest centuries before the Inca Empire.
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

3,300-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals How Ancient Egyptians Fixed Drawing Mistakes

Ancient Egyptian artists used a white pigment mixture of calcite and huntite to correct and reshape painted figures on a 3,300-year-old papyrus.
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