3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree in Crete Still Produces Olives Today One day about 3,000 years ago, at a time when the Minoan civilization still ruled over Crete and long before the rise of Classical Greece, an olive fell to the ground…
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Ancient Salome Burial Cave in Israel Reveals Rare Pilgrim Treasures Ahead of opening a burial cave dedicated to Salome, the midwife of Jesus, to the public, archaeologists have recently uncovered a number of priceless artifacts from its courtyard, the Israeli…
Continue Reading Experts Examine Newly Discovered Leonardo da Vinci Drawing of Jesus Italian scholars credit a recently found drawing of Jesus Christ to Leonardo da Vinci. Biblical figure’s red chalk drawing has been locked in a private collection for decades. Art historians…
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Prague Astronomical Clock: 600-Year-Old Medieval Wonder Still Ticks One of the most compelling of landmarks in the Czech Republic is the Astronomical Clock in Prague. Legend dates the clock back to the 15th century when Hanus, a clock master with…
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Rare 17th-Century Shakespeare Book Discovered in Spanish Library BBC News reports that John Stone of the University of Barcelona has found a 1634 printing of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play written by William Shakespeare with John Fletcher, a house playwright for…
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1965 Japanese Antarctic Expedition Emergency Food Found After 60 Years The Asahi Shimbun reports that Japanese researchers have found fragments of a cardboard box and a cache of emergency food dated to 1965 about five miles from Japan’s Syowa Station…
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13-Year-Old Discovers 1,000-Year-Old Viking Silver Hoard Linked to King Harald Bluetooth When someone asked what the coolest thing you accomplished as a newly minted teenager, most people would probably have to confess something like “successfully pulled off a kickflip” or…
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Grauballe Man: The Remarkably Preserved 2,300-Year-Old Bog Body Found in Denmark Two years after the discovery of the Tollund man, another bog body was found on the 26 of April 1952, by local peat cutters in the nearby bog, Nebelgard…
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The 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid City of Caral: America’s Oldest Known Civilization Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The first of…
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700,000-Year-Old Petralona Skull Found in Greece Sparks Debate on Human Origins The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropus” is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which…
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