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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Underground City of Giant Skeletons Discovered in the Grand Canyon – Mystery of the 1909 Kinkaid Expedition In the early 20th century, chance led us to the gate of the underground town of the most prominent giants of that period.…
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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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3,500-Year-Old Minoan Rock Crystal Vase Discovered at Zakros Palace Ideally situated in a sheltered gulf surrounded by mountains, Zakros (or Kato Zakros) in south-eastern Crete, was the fourth largest Minoan settlement after Knossos, Phaistos and Malia. The ancient name has…
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2-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor Preserved Tissue Maybe the oldest skin ever discovered The remains of six skeletons are believed to have uncovered fossilised skins of an ancient human ancestor, who lived two million years ago. Anthropologists believe they have found the…
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4,000-Year-Old Lost Capital of the Hurrian Kingdom Discovered in Syria One of the most ancient cities known to exist on earth is Urkesh. Its exact location was a mystery until the 1990s when, after ten years of painstaking excavations, archaeologists…
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39,000-Year-Old Cave Bear Found Frozen With Fur and Internal Organs Scientists at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia, announced the discovery of a well-preserved cave bear on the New Siberian island of Bolshyoy Lyakhovsky, Anna Liesowska reports for the…
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Lost Dark Age Kingdom of Rheged Unearthed at Trusty’s Hill in Scotland Archaeologists started excavations at Trusty’s Hill, they have discovered ancient, picturesque patterns etched into a rock surface near the site entrance. The sculptures were rare in the area,…
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