Unique ‘Excalibur’ Sword Found Upright in Ground Unearthed in Spain Holds Islamic Origins Researchers have finally unraveled the mysteries of the historical sword discovered in Spain 30 years ago, which they named ‘Excalibur’ because of its location, which evokes similarities…
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First Complete Roman Funerary Bed Found In Britain During an excavation near the Holborn Viaduct in London, UK, archaeologists discovered a remarkably rare Roman funerary bed. This find, according to MOLA archaeologists, is the first complete funerary bed ever found…
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Face of a 75,000-year-old Neanderthal woman revealed by scientists She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. Particularly given that her skull was smashed into 200 pieces, possibly by a rockfall, before it was meticulously pieced together by scientists over…
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First Complete Roman Funerary Bed Found In Britain During an excavation near the Holborn Viaduct in London, UK, archaeologists discovered a remarkably rare Roman funerary bed. This find, according to MOLA archaeologists, is the first complete funerary bed ever found…
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A couple renovating a 115-year-old building discovered two 60-foot-long hidden murals What started out as a couple’s renovation project to convert a historic building into a bar has turned into an effort to restore decades-old artwork in a small Washington town. Nick…
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7,000-Year-Old Native American ‘Bog Burial’ Found Off the Coast of Florida The 167 bodies discovered in a pond in Windover, Florida started to stir up excitement in the archaeological world only after the bones were declared very old, and not…
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Earliest Buddha Statues in China Unearthed in Shaanxi: Eastern Han Dynasty Discovery Reveals Gandhara Influence The two copper-tin-lead alloy Buddha statues discovered in northwestern Shaanxi Province became the earliest Buddha statues of this kind unearthed in China. Two alloy Buddha…
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The Great Sphinx of Giza May Be a Natural Wind-Carved Formation The theory, occasionally raised by others, that the Great Sphinx of Giza may have been a lion-shaped natural landform that the ancient Egyptians modified to form the stone-faced feline has been…
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Lost 14th-century Century Church Discovered under a Tennis Court in Hungary During an archaeological excavation in Visegrád, a fortified medieval castle on a hill overlooking the Danube in northern Hungary, the ruins of the Church of the Virgin Mary, built…
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Newly Discovered Human-Sized Dinosaur Footprint Is The Largest Ever Found Australian researchers digging in the area known as “Australia’s Jurassic Park” have found the world’s biggest dinosaur footprint yet to be discovered. According to their findings published in the Journal…
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