The 5,000-Year-Old Pyramid City of Caral: America’s Oldest Known Civilization Seventy thousand years ago, people lived all over South America. Six thousand years ago, people began to construct cities around pyramids, in places like Mesopotamia and China. The first of…
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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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Ancient Roman Graves With Funerary Festival Evidence Discovered in Southern France Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling ancient Roman cemetery in southern France containing 1,430 graves and evidence of funerary banquets held in honor of deceased family members. Excavations of the…
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10,000-Year-Old Mysterious Tunnels Discovered in Brazil: Unsolved Ancient Enigma Research teams in South America have found many gigantic burrows that are so massive and neatly constructed that you’d be forgiven for thinking humans dug them as a passageway through the forest.…
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2,000-Year-Old ‘Mini Pompeii’ Discovered in France: Uncovering Ancient Roman Secrets This find took place in the district of Sainte-Colombe, southern Lyon, and was dubbed a Mini Pompei by its similarity to the Roman town buried in Naples after the Vesuvius…
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Israeli Archaeologists Discover Hidden Geometric Pattern at Göbekli Tepe, World’s Oldest Temple Archeologists believe the neolithic hunter-gatherers who built huge monoliths in central Turkey 11,500 years ago had knowledge of geometry and a much more complex society than previously thought, archaeologists…
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Discovering 40 Ancient Shipwrecks in the Black Sea: A Maritime Archaeological Marvel A group of maritime archeologists studying sea levels in the Black Sea have uncovered over 40 shipwrecks as a “complete bonus.” Scientists have discovered a rare collection of…
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Ancient Jewish Ritual Bath Discovered Under Israeli Home in Jerusalem Sunday, Israeli authorities said they identified a rare, well-preserved 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath hidden beneath the floorboards of a Jerusalem home. The discovery in the Ein Kerem neighborhood in Jerusalem,…
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Lost City of Alexander the Great Discovered in Iraq Using Old Spy Footage The ‘lost city’ of Alexander the Great was a mystical place where people drank wine and naked philosophers exchanged wisdom, ancient accounts claim. Now, nearly 2,000 years…
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4,300-Year-Old Figurines Unearthed in Central Anatolia Hurriyet Daily News reports that a team of researchers led by Fikri Kulakoğlu of Ankara University uncovered more than a dozen 4,300-year-old figurines thought to depict gods and goddesses at the Kültepe mound in central…
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