Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice When dinosaurs roamed the Earth 90 million years ago, the planet was much warmer, including Antarctica at the South Pole. But in a surprising twist, researchers have discovered evidence that Antarctica…
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‘Sleeping Beauty’ Mummy Discovered 2,000 Years After Death Wearing Skirt And Clutching Make-Up Box Archeologists hail the extraordinary find of a suspected ‘Hun woman’ with a jet gemstone buckle on her beaded belt. After a fall in the water level,…
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9,000-year-old Site near Jerusalem is the “Big Bang” of Prehistory Settlement A huge 9,000-year-old Neolithic settlement — the largest ever discovered in Israel, say archaeologists — is currently being excavated outside Jerusalem, researchers said in mid-2019. This site, located near…
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Archaeologists Unearth the ‘Golden Man’ of the Saka Burial Mound in Kazakhstan Last week, Ancient Origins reported on the fascinating discovery of a golden treasure left by the ancient Saka people in a burial mound in Kazakhstan. It was called…
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In Mexico’s Caribbean, archaeologists find a more than 200-year-old shipwreck QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO— BBC reports that an eight-foot cannon, anchor, and pig-iron ingots thought to have been used as a ship’s ballast were spotted by a fisherman in the Caribbean Sea…
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Unusual Gallo-Roman horse and human skeletons were discovered in France’s Evreux (Eure) A team from the Institut National d’archéologie preventive (Inrap) has discovered a mortuary practice hitherto unknown in Roman Gaul. The archaeologists are working in an area of 200m2…
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New Evidence Of Ancient Child Sacrifice Found From Bronze Age Mesopotamia About 5,000 years ago, the Mesopotamians buried two 12-year-olds — a boy and a girl — and surrounded their slender bodies with hundreds of bronze spearheads and what appears…
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Great white shark-sized ancient fish discovered by accident from fossilized lung A 66 million-year-old fossilized lung from a previously unknown species of ancient fish, as large as a great white shark, has recently been uncovered in Morocco. Researchers believe the…
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Romanian archaeologists found an ancient human skeleton that dates back 3,000 years A 3,000-year-old human skeleton was recently discovered at an archaeological excavation site in the village of Drăguşeni, Botoşani county. The skeleton dates back to the beginning of the…
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Genetics Cracks Origins of Two Mysterious People: Scythians and Basques Genetic analysis is all the rage and two separate studies have provided new insights into two peoples: the Scythians of yore, and the Basques of today. The story of the Scythians is one of…
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