Discover Son Doong Cave: The Largest Cave Passage with its Own Ecosystem The Son Doong Cave in Vietnam is the largest cave passage in the world. This huge and intricate cave system was created by water that percolated down from a rainforest…
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Ancient Irish DNA Reveals Secrets of Inbreeding and Down Syndrome in Early Irish Society 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…
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1,600-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Cargo Discovered off Caesarea Coast In recent times, divers have discovered some rarity of archaeological artifacts on the bottom of the sea off the coast of Israel in Caesarea. The objects that seem to have been…
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2,700-Year-Old Iron Age Loch Village Discovered in Scotland’s Wetlands During a small-scale dig, archaeologists discovered what was initially believed to be a crannog – a loch shelter, a loch-dwelling often found on the banks of a loch or sited on an…
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Massive Ancient Lion Sculpture Uncovered in Cambodia According to a report in The Phnom Penh Post, two pieces of a six-foot-tall statue of a lion were unearthed by mine-clearing experts preparing the site of a new groundwater reservoir along the…
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Archaeologists Uncover 12th Century Medieval Castle in Gloucester, England The greatest archeological and historical discoveries are often found in the most unlikely of places. This was the case in December, when construction laborers were left in awe while renovating a…
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The Secret of 34,000-year-old Artificial Bosnian Pyramids There’s been plenty of literature and conversation around pyramids and even now we have not stopped discovering pyramids around the world. Years of study have revealed that enormous pyramids were built more than…
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Ancient Canadian Village Predates Egyptian Pyramids by 8,000 Years Archaeologists on British Columbia’s Triquet Island have excavated an ancient settlement dating back some 14,000 years, to the last ice age. Archaeologists working with the support of the Hakai Institute began…
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Lost City of Alexander the Great Discovered in Iraq Using Old Spy Footage The ‘lost city’ of Alexander the Great was a mystical place where people drank wine and naked philosophers exchanged wisdom, ancient accounts claim. Now, nearly 2,000 years…
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4,300-Year-Old Figurines Unearthed in Central Anatolia Hurriyet Daily News reports that a team of researchers led by Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University uncovered more than a dozen 4,300-year-old figurines thought to depict gods and goddesses at the Kültepe mound in central…
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