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  1. Sunday, June 7, 2026

    Ukraine's drones take aerial control over part of land route to Russian-occupied Crimea +++ Pro-Ukrainian partisans sabotage railway infrastructure in Russian city of Voronezh +++ Power returns to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after prolonged outage, IAEA says +++ Russia obstructed evacuations after Kakhovka dam destruction leading to civilian casualties, report says ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  2. Teeth from burial pit in Mongolia trace Han soldiers in the Xiongnu war

    New information on a mass burial found at the Bayanbulag site in Mongolia, which is thought to hold the remains of Han warriors who participated in the Han-Xiongnu War, has been revealed by a recent bioarchaeological study...

    More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/03/bur

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    #archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #anthropology #handynasty #xiongnuwar #ancientChina

  3. Despite increased millet farming, herders in Xinjiang's Keriya Valley #ancientchina stuck to traditional grazing 🐑 #isotope #palaeodiet study reveals. Most animals grazed on C3 plants in oases during #BronzeAge /#IronAge, but some surprising C4 signals in cattle & camel remains. 🏺 #archaeology

    Dietary reconstruction of dome...

  4. #OTD in 202 BCE: Liu Bang 劉邦 (256/47–195 BCE) is declared emperor of the Han 漢 (202 BCE–9 CE; 25–220 CE), known to posterity as Emperor Gao(zu) 高祖/高帝 (r. 202–195 BCE). #EarlyChina #AncientChina #ChineseHistory #HanDynasty