Scotland’s 17th-Century Sand-Covered Settlement Explored According to a report in The Scotsman, Gerry Bigelow of Bates College and his colleagues have found evidence that someone returned to live in the Shetland island settlement of Broo after it was buried under more…
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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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12,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found at White Sands National Park Footprints are a common theme at White Sands. Every day, people from all over the world visit and leave traces of their comings and goings. The white dunes of the Tularosa…
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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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2,500-Year-Old Greek City of Phanagoria Reveals Stele of Persian King Darius I — One-Third Now Underwater The Foundation Oleg Deripaska Volnoe Delo and the Russian Academy of Archaeology uncovered parts of marble stele with inscriptions of ancient Persian King Darius…
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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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Hundreds of 12-Million-Year-Old Prehistoric Animals Discovered in Nebraska’s Volcanic Ashfall Fossil Beds The watering holes attracted prehistoric animals among Nebraska’s tall grasslands. From horses to camels and rhinoceroses, with wild dogs looming nearby, animals roamed the savanna-like region. Then, one…
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Century-Old Coffin Mystery Solved: Child Identified After 140 Years Beneath Historic Home In the 1800s the mysterious girl, whose body was found under a house in San Francisco, her body entombed in a small lead and bronze coffin and her…
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China’s Atlantis: Ancient Underwater City Shi Cheng Beneath Qiandao Lake Revealed Shi Cheng, Chun’an County, Zhejiang, China. An ancient city, established approximately 1300 years ago, now lies at depths ranging from 26 to 40 meters underwater. The city and the valley…
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3,600-Year-Old Figurine Discovered in Greece’s Prehistoric Akrotiri Village — Clues to Lost Theran Civilisation A 3,600-year-old marble figurine of a woman is among a treasure trove of artefacts found in a prehistoric village on the Greek island of Santorini. Archaeologists…
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