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Divers Found The World’s Largest Underwater Cave, And It’s Full of Maya Secrets
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History’s 1st Emoji? Ancient Pitcher Shows a Smiley Face
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ISIS Destroys Ancient Theater, Tetrapylon In Palmyra, Syria Says
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Ancient ‘House of the Dead’ discovered in Wiltshire
A ‘House of the Dead’ has been discovered in Wiltshire dating back 5,000 years by University of Reading archaeologists and students, and could contain...
Amazon Warriors – Myth to Reality
Four female warriors buried around 2,500 years ago with weapons have been discovered in western Russia. For the first time, archaeologists found a magnificent...
Stonehenge Discovery Radically Changes Understanding of Ancient Monument
Researchers from the Universities of Birmingham and Ghent have identified thousands of pits around the ancient monument of #Stonehenge. Archaeologists combined the first-ever electromagnetic...
Ancient Fossils Reveal the First Humans Emerged 170,000 Years Earlier than We Thought
The first modern humans may have emerged up to 350,000 years ago—170,000 years earlier than previously thought. Analysis of ancient DNA has allowed scientists...
Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80,000 years ago
By Helen Davidson
Artefacts in Kakadu national park have been dated between 65,000 and 80,000 years old, extending likely occupation of area by...
Castle of the Sealand kings: Discovering ancient Iraq’s rebel rulers
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