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…
Continue Reading 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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500-Year-Old Inca Mummies and Feathered Nobles Unearthed Near Lima, Peru Thousands of Inca mummies, some of them bundled together in groups of up to seven, have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in Peru. Believed…
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Viking-Era Child’s Remains Discovered Near Dublin Castle in Ireland RTÉ reports that the remains of a child and an iron buckle or fastener were uncovered in Dubh Linn, a dark tidal pool where the River Poddle enters the River Liffey…
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The Remarkably Preserved Tomb of the Lord of Sipán, Peru’s Mochican Warrior Priest In 1987, at an archaeological site in Huaca Rajada near Sipán, on the north coast of Peru, an immense complex of unplundered Moche cultural tombs was uncovered.…
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Mysterious Secret Tunnel Discovered Beneath Ancient Pyramid in Mexico Hidden passage to the underworld could just have been found, at least according to the mysterious ancient civilization that built it. A secret tunnel leading down a chamber deep underneath the…
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Archaeologists Discover 59 Ancient Coffins and Mummies in Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis The Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquity said on Saturday that archaeologists discovered dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis in the South of Cairo. Khalid el-Anany said…
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1902 New York Times Article Claimed Giant Skeletons Were Discovered in New Mexico Researcher Graham Hancock coined the phrase, ‘we’re like a species with amnesia,’ and it’s true. Even though it seems the story of human history is well uncovered,…
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Potential Royal Statue Fragment Unearthed at Shaftesbury Abbey in England The Guardian reports that a team of researchers led by archaeologist Julian Richards unearthed a carved stone head at the site of Shaftesbury Abbey, which was founded as a religious…
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After 3,300 Years, King Tut’s Coffin Leaves His Tomb for the First Time Ever The outermost coffin that once held the body of King Tutankhamun had never left the 3,300-year-old tomb since the time he was first laid to rest.…
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