Comparison Of American Languages Detects Waves Of Migration Indigenous people entered North American at least four times between 12,000 and 24,000 years ago, bringing their languages with them, a new linguistic model indicates. The model correlates with archaeological, climatological and…
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Oldest Known Human Viruses Discovered In 50,000-year-old Neanderthal Remains Researchers from the Federal University of São Paulo have managed to uncover the oldest known human viruses in a set of Neanderthal bones dating from over 50,000 years and they could…
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Historic 3,000-year-old olive tree still producing olives to this day The oldest olive tree in the world is located in the village of Ano Vouves of Kissamos in Chania, Crete, Greece. The ancient tree is 3000 years old, as determined…
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Bronze Age burial chamber discovered on Dartmoor, England Excitement has been felt among archaeologists over the discovery of a Bronze Age burial chamber on Dartmoor, which may provide fresh light on Devon’s prehistoric past. This “enchanting” discovery could rival the…
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Lost 14th-century Century Church Discovered under a Tennis Court in Hungary During an archaeological excavation in Visegrád, a fortified medieval castle on a hill overlooking the Danube in northern Hungary, the ruins of the Church of the Virgin Mary, built…
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Mummified remains of an Incan ‘Princess’ who died 500 years ago finally returned to Bolivia A 500-year-old mummy of an Incan girl has been returned to Bolivia, some 129 years after it was donated to the Michigan State University Museum,…
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New Thoughts on the “Lead Lady” of the Netherlands The remains of a rich Roman woman in a grave found during works in the centre of Nijmegen in 2001 could turn out to belong to a menial worker, closer inspection…
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A 2,700-year-old leather saddle found in a woman’s tomb in China is the oldest on record Archaeologists have unearthed an elaborate leather horse saddle — possibly the oldest ever found — from a grave in northwestern China, according to a…
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Archaeologists uncover ‘astonishing’ remains of horses buried 2,000 years ago Archaeologists in France have uncovered nine “astonishing” graves containing the skeletons of 28 horses that were buried about 2,000 years ago, though their precise cause of death remains a mystery.…
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Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy. The Italian Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, visited the site on Tuesday, describing the ancient city…
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