2,000-Year-Old Roman Gladiator Helmet Found at Pompeii The centerpiece of today’s presentation in Melbourne is a gladiator’s helmet, left in the ruins of Pompeii. The 2,000-year-old bronze helmet is one of 250 items brought together at the Melbourne Museum to…
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6,000-Year-Old Marble Caves Carved by Waves in Patagonia The Cuevas de Mármol is situated on a strong marble island on the edge of the General Correra Lake on the Patagonian Andes, an outlying glacial lake that stretches across the border…
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Mount Vesuvius Eruption Turned a Victim’s Brain Into Glass According to a new analysis of their bones, the remains of those trapped by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius tell a story of tragic suffering. The Vesuvius erupted and buried cities…
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Medieval Priest Buried With Chalice and Paten Unearthed at Lincoln Cathedral Over 50 burials unearthed by archaeologists in the Lincoln Cathedral included a remarkable medieval priest burial. A skeleton is believed to be that of a medieval priest found, who had been buried…
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Dragon Bench Carved With a Chainsaw by Artist Igor Loskutow Who would have thought that chainsaw can be used as an artist’s tool? Estonian artist Igor Loskutow is an award-winning master of chainsaw art. Based in Germany, he’s part of…
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1,100-Pound Dinosaur Bone Found in France After 140 Million Years The enormous prehistoric treasures Mother Nature continues to produce, this time in the form of a gigantic thigh bone, once belonging to a massive plant-munching sauropod that roamed the primeval swamps…
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11th-Century Scandinavian Warriors Found Buried in Poland The skeleton of 4 Scandinavian warriors hundreds of miles from their homeland was stunned by Archeologists in Poland. The remains of the 11th century were discovered in a peculiar burial site dubbed by the…
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Meganeuropsis: The Giant Prehistoric Insect with a 65 cm Wingspan Meganeura the largest Flying Insect Ever Existed, Had a Wingspan of Up to 65 Cm, from the Carboniferous period. Its name is Meganeuropsis, and it ruled the skies before pterosaurs,…
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Fossilized Insect Found Preserved in Opal, a Rare 4–7 Million-Year-Old Discovery A piece of opal from Java Island, Indonesia, holds some remarkable cargo: a stunningly preserved insect that may be at least four to seven million years old. Amber has…
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Ancient Irish DNA Reveals Secrets of Newgrange and Neolithic Ireland In the earliest periods of Irish history, archaeologists and geneticists led by those from Trinity have shed new light. The amazing findings of this study include an adult male genome…
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