2,200-Year-Old Fruit Baskets Found in the Underwater City of Heracleion Fruit baskets — with fruit still inside — that are more than 2,200 years old were discovered recently in the ruins of Thonis-Heracleion, the ancient lost city near Alexandria, Egypt.…
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Priceless Ancient Bronze Statues Unearthed in Etruscan Baths of San Casciano dei Bagni, Italy An “exceptional” trove of bronze statues preserved for thousands of years by mud and boiling water has been discovered in a network of baths built by…
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Roman Era Odeon Unearthed in Crete’s Ancient Town of Lissos Tucked into a mountain-ringed cove in southwest Crete are the ruins of Lissos, an ancient town whose archaeological remains are accessible only by sea or a long hike. Because of…
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3,200-Year-Old Trepanned Skull Unearthed in Eastern Turkey’s Van Province A 3,200-year-old skull was recently uncovered in Turkey’s eastern Van province. This find was made even more intriguing by the skull’s man-made triangle-shaped hole, indicating that the deceased owner had undergone…
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The Remarkable Tale of a 4,000-Year-Old Ancient Sumerian Riverboat Rescued from the Sands of Uruk All that’s left today of an ancient boat discovered in 2018 in what was formerly Uruk is the bitumen, black tar that once coated its…
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3,000-Year-Old Wishing Well Unearthed in Germany: Discover the Intriguing Artifacts Inside Archaeologists in Germering, Germany, have made an astonishing discovery – a 3,000-year-old wooden Wishing well filled with over 100 well-preserved artifacts. Unlike modern coin-filled fountains, this well, with a…
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California Gold Mine Reveals 40 Million-Year-Old Tools Were Found At Table Mountain and other locations in the gold mining region around the middle of the nineteenth century, miners discovered hundreds of stone artifacts and human bones buried deep inside their…
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Tarkhan Dress – Unveiling the World’s Oldest Woven Garment The Tarkhan Dress, a V-neck linen shirt, has been confirmed as the world’s oldest woven garment, with radiocarbon testing dating the garment to the late fourth millennium B.C. Tarkhan is one of the…
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Unveiling the Secrets of the Underground Roman Aqueduct Near Naples Forty years ago, when children in Naples were playing in caves and tunnels under the hill of Posillipo in Italy, they didn’t know their playground was a Roman aqueduct. When…
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Unveiling Ancient Huastec Civilization: Discoveries at El Naranjo in Tamaulipas, Mexico Recent excavations at a site in the state of Tamaulipas included analysis of large earthen mounds that were used for burials and everyday activities. Archaeologists in the northeastern state…
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