Cats and Babies: Ancient Mummies Unearthed in Aksaray, Turkey Cat, baby and adult mummies in Aksaray, the gateway to Cappadocia with its historical cultural riches and known as the first settlement of Central Anatolia, have been enchanting visitors at a museum…
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1,000-Year-Old Surgical Kit Unearthed in Sican Tomb, Peru The remains of an individual who served as a surgeon during the Middle Sican period (900-1050 AD) were found by experts from the Sican National Museum in the southern necropolis at the Mausoleum Temple…
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Excavation of Byzantine Shipwreck in Aegean Reveals 5th-Century Ceramics Excavations of a Byzantine shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Samos have revealed that the ship and its contents likely date to some time between 480 and 520 AD,…
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14th-Century Sarcophagus Unearthed at Fire-Damaged Notre Dame Cathedral The discovery was made as maintenance crews were preparing to install scaffolding before restoring the spire of the 800-year-old cathedral, which survived a huge fire in the spring of 2019. French archaeologists…
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3,700-Year-Old Burial Site Suggests Female Rule in Bronze Age Spain Archaeologists in Spain have determined that the 3,700-year-old remains of a woman found beneath a Bronze Age-era ruin may well be the first case of an ancient female ruling elite…
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Eastern European Newcomers Settled in Ancient Serbia 5,000 Years Ago Bones of tall men covered with a red dye, discovered by researchers including Polish archaeologists in two burial mounds in Vojvodina (northern Serbia) probably belonged to people who had come…
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Ancient Skeletons Unveil History of Worm Parasites in Britain Britons have suffered from worms since the Bronze Age, new research shows, with parasite infections peaking during the Roman and Late Medieval periods. Things began to get better during the Industrial…
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Ruins of Ancient Temple for Zeus Unearthed in Egypt’s Sinai Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday. The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a…
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3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe: Early Artistry in Prosthetics Revealed Almost two decades ago, archaeologists working in a burial chamber in the Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna necropolis west of Luxor, Egypt, found something unexpected: An exquisitely crafted prosthetic big toe fitted to the…
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Rare 1000-Year-Old Maya Canoe Found in Yucatan Cenote Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool…
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