300-Year-Old “Exceptional” Gold and Copper Prosthesis Discovered in Poland Something novel has been discovered by Polish archaeologists excavating the Church of St. Francis of Assisi in Krakow; it is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.…
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490-Million-Year-Old Trilobites Reveal Gondwana’s Ancient Geography The humble trilobites may be extinct, but even as fossils, they can teach us much about our planet’s history. Indeed, ancient arthropods from nearly half a billion years ago, including ten newly discovered species, …
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Homeowners Find 14th-Century Lincoln Imp Carving Above Toilet in Lincoln Tracy and Rory Vorster living in Lincoln, England, have discovered a trapdoor in their bathroom with a grotesque face bearing a striking resemblance to the local icon, the Lincoln Imp.…
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Ancient Elite Tomb From the 6th Century Discovered Beneath Parking Lot in Japan Shrubbery intended to illuminate a corner of a nondescript parking lot in Japan’s Nara prefecture turned out to be hiding the tomb of an elite figure from…
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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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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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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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Babylonians Used Advanced Maths to Predict Jupiter’s Path 1,400 Years Before Calculus Analysis of an ancient codebreaking tablet has revealed that Babylonian astronomers had calculated the movements of Jupiter using an early form of geometric calculus some 1,400 years before we thought…
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Evidence Unveiled: 3,800-Year-Old Megaquake Triggered 66-Foot Tsunamis in Chile Archaeologists have found evidence of the largest known earthquake in human history — a terrifying magnitude-9.5 megaquake that caused a 5,000-mile-long (8,000 kilometres) tsunami and prompted human populations to abandon nearby…
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