Incredibly Well-Preserved 1,000-Year-Old Wooden Ladder Discovered In The UK Archaeologists in the UK have made many fascinating discoveries while excavating at a site known as Field 44 near the village of Tempsford in Central Bedfordshire. Some weeks ago, archaeologists working…
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The Prehistoric Rock Art of Tassili N’Ajjer, Algeria Just Outside the Desert Oasis of Djanet, Algeria, there’s a national park brimming with pieces of the past. A trip through the alien-like landscape of Tassili n’Ajjer is like stepping into an open-air…
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Oldest Ever Fly With Stomach Full Of Food Found After 47 Million Years When scientists investigated a 47-million-year-old Fossilized Fly found at the Messel Pit fossil site in Germany, they noticed it looked a bit chonky. So they took a…
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This Wooden Phallus Might Be a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Dildo Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a rare example of an ancient sex toy carved from wood, found in a Roman fort known for a plethora of phallic motifs. The ruins…
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More than 4,500 Skeletons Discovered in Islamic Necropolis in Spain CNN reports that more than 4,500 graves have been identified at a cemetery in northeastern Spain, in an area thought to have been largely untouched by the Arab invasion of the…
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A mysterious 520 million-year-old sea monster with tentacles coming out of its mouth discovered Recent research finds that the discovery of a fossil demonstrating an underwater marine monster with 18 tentacles surrounding its mouth has helped solve a modern-day puzzle…
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A 2,100-year-old statue of Cybele the Anatolian mother goddess unearthed in northwestern Turkey An approximate 2,100-year-old Cybele’s rare marble statue, Anatolia’s mother goddess, has been discovered in excavations on the Black Sea coast of Northern Ordu province. The historic sculpture of Cybele sitting…
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Images of Jesus and Other Biblical Figures Found in a 1,000-Year-Old Bible Discovered in Turkey The nearly thousand-year-old bible has been recently discovered by171 the Turkish Police when smugglers tried to sell the priceless book to undercover officers. Police in…
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Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Gold Mask In China Belonging To A Mysterious Ancient Society A 3,000-year-old ceremonial gold mask has become an unexpected social media sensation in China after its recent discovery in Sichuan province. The artefact was one of 500…
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Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago Long before the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, Bronze Age Europeans were tuning in and dropping out on hallucinogenic drugs. While archaeologists have long had their suspicions, a new…
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