The Mysterious Lapedo Child: Neanderthal-Human Hybrid Discovery A great mystery was unburied in 1998, in the bed of a rock shelter in the Lapedo Valley which lies 85 miles to the north of Lisbon, Portugal. Buried for millennia, archaeologists discovered…
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Rare 1000-Year-Old Maya Canoe Found in Yucatan Cenote Archaeologists have discovered a wooden Maya canoe in southern Mexico, believed to be over 1,000 years old. Measuring over 5ft (1.6m), it was found almost completely intact, submerged in a freshwater pool…
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Secrets Unearthed: The Underground City of Giant Skeletons Discovered in the Grand Canyon In the early 20th century, chance led us to the gate of the underground town of the most prominent giants of that period. This was an unprecedented…
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DNA Analysis Reunites Viking Relatives in Denmark After 1,000 Years The 150 bones have been lent to the Danish Museum by the Oxfordshire Museum in Britain for three years. Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family…
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Timber From 17th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Discovered In Caves Off Oregon’s Coast In 1693, the Santo Cristo de Burgos, a Manila galleon loaded with silk, porcelain and beeswax, set sail from the Philippines on a trading expedition to Mexico. But the…
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6,000-Year-Old Mesolithic Settlement Found Near Stonehenge: Rewriting British History The culture that built Stonehenge might be much older than previously thought. In research that could “rewrite” long-established British history, University of Buckingham archaeologists have discovered a 6,000-year-old Mesolithic settlement located…
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4,000-Year-Old Human Skeletons and Relics Discovered in Pingtung, Taiwan: Archaeological Breakthrough Taipei, July 27 (CNA) Archaeologists in Taiwan confirmed Wednesday that a large number of human skeletons and shell tools unearthed in Pingtung County are about 4,000 years old, which…
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Massive Megalithic Complex, with More than 500 Standing Stones, Discovered in Southern Spain A massive megalithic complex of more than 500 standing stones has been discovered in southern Spain that could be one of the largest in Europe, archaeologists have…
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1400-Year-Old Folding Chair Found in a Woman’s Grave in Germany Archaeologists have made a very unusual find. A Medieval folding chair has been discovered in a woman’s grave. The excavation team unearthed the chair in a woman’s grave in Steinfeld…
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Ancient Roman Sarcophagus Found At London Building Site An ancient Roman sarcophagus has been excavated from a building site in central London. The 1,600-year-old coffin found near Borough Market is thought to contain the remains of a member of the…
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