Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Gold Mask In China Belonging To A Mysterious Ancient Society A 3,000-year-old ceremonial gold mask has become an unexpected social media sensation in China after its recent discovery in Sichuan province. The artefact was one of 500…
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Ancient Hair Reveals Traces of Hallucinogenic Drugs Taken 3,600 Years Ago Long before the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s, Bronze Age Europeans were tuning in and dropping out on hallucinogenic drugs. While archaeologists have long had their suspicions, a new…
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Archaeologists Find Hidden Ruins of ‘Complete’ Roman-Era City in Egypt Egyptian archaeologists said Tuesday they had discovered a 1,800-year-old “complete residential city from the Roman Era” in the heart of the southern city of Luxor. The city, dating to the second and third…
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Scientists Discover 168 Mysterious Nazca Geoglyphs in The Desert Sands of Peru The Nazca desert in Peru is like an art gallery for the gods above. Yet even with decades of surveillance from the skies, we’ve barely explored a small…
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Sword Mistaken For Replica Is Actually An Ancient 3,000-Year-Old Weapon In the 1930s, a tarnished bronze sword was pulled from the banks of the Danube River that runs through Budapest. It was styled like a Hungarian weapon from the Bronze…
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Remains of man who was ‘vaporized’ by Mount Vesuvius 2,000 years ago discovered The skeletal remains of a man whose flesh disintegrated in the heat from Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago have offered a new glimpse into one of history’s most…
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Bows Were Being Used in Europe 40,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought A cave in southern France has revealed evidence of the first use of bows and arrows in Europe by modern humans some 54,000 years ago, far earlier than…
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Cleopatra’s final resting place: Mummies of two high-status Egyptians discovered The mystery behind Egyptian queen Cleopatra’s tomb is immense because nobody appears to know where she was buried. However, archaeologists in Egypt are in all probability, close to cracking the…
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72-million-year-old perfectly preserved Dinosaur embryo discovered inside a fossilized egg in China. A dinosaur embryo perfectly curled up in its fossilized egg was analyzed by a team of researchers in southeastern China. The rundown: The fossil, estimated to be between 72 and 66 million years old,…
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Archaeologists discovered a 9,000-year-old underground megalithic settlement of Atlit Yam In a groundbreaking discovery, archaeologists have uncovered a skeleton in the ancient underground city of Atlit Yam, which is believed to be around 9,000 years old. The well-preserved city, located…
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