2,000-Year-Old Iron Age and Roman Treasures Found in Wales Could Point to an Unknown Roman Settlement Several magnificent Iron Age, Roman and post-Medieval artifacts found in Monmouthshire, a county in the southeast of Wales, have been declared a treasure. According…
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900-Year-Old Crypt At Old Dongola: Magical Inscriptions And Mysterious Signs Found Many fascinating archaeological findings have been reported by Polish archaeologists excavating at Old Dongola, the capital of a lost medieval kingdom that flourished in the Nile Valley. Among them…
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Egyptian mummy believed to be of a male priest turns out to be a pregnant woman According to the AFP, X-rays of a 2,000-year-old Egyptian mummy kept at Poland’s National Museum since 1917 showed the remains of a woman with…
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Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought The question of where Human Ancestors came from has fascinated the scientific community for centuries. Fortunately, there have been some incredible discoveries of different skeletons, each of which gives researchers…
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The Largest Fossilized Human Turd Ever Found Came From a Sick Viking The proof is in this Fossilized excrement, which dates back to the 9th century. It was discovered about 40 years ago, and is famous for being the most…
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The world’s oldest smile emoji is on display at an archaeological museum The Gaziantep Archeology Museum will display a 3,700-year-old water bottle with a “smile emoji” on it that was uncovered in the ancient city of Karkamş in the southeastern…
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Archaeologists have found Rare evidence for Neolithic textiles identified on Orkney Archaeologists at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, have identified the impression of woven cloth preserved on a piece of Neolithic pottery, potentially representing the oldest evidence for textiles found…
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Viking sword discovered on Papa Westray, Orkney has ‘many stories to tell A Viking sword found at a burial site in Orkney is a rare, exciting and complex artifact, say archaeologists. The find, made in 2015 on the northeast coast…
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Fossil hunters unearth massive mega-wombat graveyard Australian scientists unveiled the biggest-ever graveyard of an ancient rhino-sized mega-wombat called diprotodon, with the site potentially holding valuable clues on the species extinction. The remote fossil deposit in outback Queensland state is thought to…
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130-Million-Year-Old Proteins Still Present in Dinosaur Age Fossil Microscopic pigment structures and proteins that graced the feathers of a Cretaceous-age bird are still present in its 130-million-year-old fossil, a new study finds. The results, which confirm the oldest evidence of the structural protein…
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