Medieval College Building Found in Oxford, England A “lost” Oxford University college has been unearthed during the construction project for new student flats. The former St Mary’s College was founded in 1435 but had already fallen into disrepair 100 years…
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Terracotta Warriors Discovered in China Near Emperor’s Tomb Archaeologists have uncovered more than 20 new Terracotta Warriors, life-size figures built to protect the first emperor of China in the afterlife. The Terracotta Army is thought to consist of 8,000 sculpted…
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Ice Age Megafauna Remains Discovered in Devon Cave Dating Back 60,000 Years The development of Sherford began in 2015 and appeared rather promising. A new town in Devon, England, it would have 5,500 homes and sit near the bustling port…
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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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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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