Ancient Germanic Lord Buried with Six Women Discovered in Germany In Saxony-Anhalt, close to Brücken-Hackpfüffel Archaeologists have discovered the complex grave of a Germanic lord or prince who lived 1,500 years ago during the Great Migration. Experts claim that for 40…
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3,000-Year-Old Olive Tree in Crete Still Produces Olives Today One day about 3,000 years ago, at a time when the Minoan civilization still ruled over Crete and long before the rise of Classical Greece, an olive fell to the ground…
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Ancient Salome Burial Cave in Israel Reveals Rare Pilgrim Treasures Ahead of opening a burial cave dedicated to Salome, the midwife of Jesus, to the public, archaeologists have recently uncovered a number of priceless artifacts from its courtyard, the Israeli…
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Experts Examine Newly Discovered Leonardo da Vinci Drawing of Jesus Italian scholars credit a recently found drawing of Jesus Christ to Leonardo da Vinci. Biblical figure’s red chalk drawing has been locked in a private collection for decades. Art historians…
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Prague Astronomical Clock: 600-Year-Old Medieval Wonder Still Ticks One of the most compelling of landmarks in the Czech Republic is the Astronomical Clock in Prague. Legend dates the clock back to the 15th century when Hanus, a clock master with…
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Rare 17th-Century Shakespeare Book Discovered in Spanish Library BBC News reports that John Stone of the University of Barcelona has found a 1634 printing of The Two Noble Kinsmen, a play written by William Shakespeare with John Fletcher, a house playwright for…
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700,000-Year-Old Petralona Skull Found in Greece Sparks Debate on Human Origins The “Petralona Man,” or “Petralona Archanthropus” is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which…
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500-Year-Old Inca Mummies and Feathered Nobles Unearthed Near Lima, Peru Thousands of Inca mummies, some of them bundled together in groups of up to seven, have been unearthed from an ancient cemetery under a shantytown near Lima in Peru. Believed…
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Archaeologists Discover 59 Ancient Coffins and Mummies in Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis The Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquity said on Saturday that archaeologists discovered dozens of ancient coffins in a vast necropolis in the South of Cairo. Khalid el-Anany said…
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Qasr Al-Farid: The Lonely Nabataean Tomb Carved in the Saudi Desert Among the Dozens of ruins located in the archaeological playground of Mada’in Saleh, one literally stands alone. Carved into a massive boulder, Qasr al-Farid, or “The Lonely Castle,” is…
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