Ruins of Ancient Temple for Zeus Unearthed in Egypt’s Sinai Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the ruins of a temple for the ancient Greek god Zeus in the Sinai Peninsula, antiquities authorities said Monday. The Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said in a…
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3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe: Early Artistry in Prosthetics Revealed Almost two decades ago, archaeologists working in a burial chamber in the Sheikh ´Abd el-Qurna necropolis west of Luxor, Egypt, found something unexpected: An exquisitely crafted prosthetic big toe fitted to the…
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Rare 1000-Year-Old Maya Canoe Found in Yucatan Cenote Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool…
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Researchers Discover Huge “Dinosaur Dance Floor” in China In China, researchers have found many dinosaur footprints in an area of 1,600 square meters described in the literature as a “dinosaur dance floor.” So far, 8 kinds of dinosaur footprints have…
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Secrets Unearthed: The Underground City of Giant Skeletons Discovered in the Grand Canyon In the early 20th century, chance led us to the gate of the underground town of the most prominent giants of that period. This was an unprecedented…
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DNA Analysis Reunites Viking Relatives in Denmark After 1,000 Years The 150 bones have been lent to the Danish Museum by the Oxfordshire Museum in Britain for three years. Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family…
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Mummified 30,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Discovered in Canadian Gold Fields A gold miner found a mummified baby woolly mammoth in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory in Yukon, Canada. According to a press release from the local government, the female baby mammoth has been named…
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Burial Mounds in Serbia Reveal Skeletons of 5,000-year-old Painted Men Archaeologists have discovered dye-coloured bones dating back around 5,000 years at a burial site in southeastern Europe where unusually tall men were laid to rest. The burial site, located in…
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Timber From 17th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Discovered In Caves Off Oregon’s Coast In 1693, the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Manila galleon loaded with silk, porcelain and beeswax, set sail from the Philippines on a trading expedition to Mexico. But the…
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6,000-Year-Old Mesolithic Settlement Found Near Stonehenge: Rewriting British History The culture that built Stonehenge might be much older than previously thought. In research that could “rewrite” long-established British history, University of Buckingham archaeologists have discovered a 6,000-year-old Mesolithic settlement located…
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