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…
Continue Reading 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…
Continue Reading 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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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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