2,600-year-old stone busts of ‘lost’ ancient Tartessos people were discovered in a sealed pit in Spain Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed five life-size busts of human figures that could be the first-known human depictions of the Tartessos, a people who…
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Archeologists in Peru found a 1,000-year-old adolescent mummy wrapped in a bundle Archaeologists have unearthed a more than 1,000-year-old mummy on the outskirts of Peru’s capital, Lima. The mummified adolescent was wrapped in a funerary bundle, with ceramic objects, rope, bits of…
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Archaeology breakthrough as ‘flabbergasted’ researchers make Cerne Abbas Giant Origin find The Cerne Abbas Giant is a 180-foot-tall figure of a naked man wielding a large club, carved with chalk into a hilltop in Dorset, England. The figure’s generously sized…
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1,800-year-old wooden mask likely used in farm festivals found in Japan Archaeologists have unearthed an almost perfectly preserved wooden mask from the early third century at the Nishi-Iwata ruins in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The discovery was announced by the Osaka…
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4,000-Year-Old Hidden Tunnel Discovered in Ancient Castle in Turkey In Turkey, Central Anatolia, a Hittite castle secret tunnel was excavated. The tunnel is about 4,000 years old and is part of the castle of Geval Castle. Nearly 150 meters of…
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Images of Jesus and Other Biblical Figures Found in a 1,000-Year-Old Bible Discovered in Turkey The nearly thousand-year-old bible has been recently discovered by171 the Turkish Police when smugglers tried to sell the priceless book to undercover officers. Police in…
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Ancient Structures in The Arabian Desert Reveal Fragments of Mysterious Rituals We might be getting closer to understanding why hundreds of large stone structures were built across the deserts of northwest Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago. According to an…
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This 1,000-Year-Old Stone Tablet May’ve Been a Maya Sports ‘Scoreboard’ An ancient stone “scoreboard” likely used in a soccer-like ball game was discovered at an archeological site in Mexico earlier this week, archaeologists said. Found at the Maya Chichen Itza…
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3000-year-old trousers discovered in Chinese grave oldest ever found That’s right–1000 years before Christ’s birth these were worn. Archeologists say the two men whose remains have recently been excavated from tombs in western China put their pants on one leg…
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King Tutankhamun’s 3300-Year-Old Gold Coffin to Be Restored After Nearly a Decade From the time that King Tutankhamun’s body was placed, the outermost sarcophagus had never left the 3300-year-old tomb. Even in 1922, following the discovery of the tomb by…
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