Archaeology student finds pristine 1,000 year-old figurine during dig in Peru
Despite having no luck finding anything during a dig in Peru, Harvard archaeology student Caroline Coolidge kept on brushing away dirt. And her persistence paid...
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Archaeologist looks to space to make new discoveries on Earth
Imagine being an archaeologist and looking at the Earth landscape through satellite imagery as if it were a puzzle on a table-top. That’s how Sarah...
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Young Chinese Boy Finds Nest Filled With 66-million-year Old Dinosaur Eggs
Zhang Yangzhe is ten years old and lives in the Guangdong Province of China. He was recently playing along an embankment near the Dong River...
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Archaeologists explore a tunnel in a Scottish monastery where William Wallace was educated
Paisley Abbey in Scotland is a medieval monastery that has withheld a secret from archaeologists since the early 1990s when an underground tunnel built in...
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Rare Roman writing instrument featuring a joke found where journalists work today in London
Bloomberg’s European headquarters in London is the site where over 200 Roman styluses and ancient writing tablets were found, dating back to 70 AD. It’s...
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Did ancient people or giants create these giant sculptures, tombs, and shrines on Sardinia?
The Island of Sardinia, west of the Italian Peninsula in the Mediterranean Sea, holds many ancient secrets. Today, ancient astronaut theorists are most interested in...
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Medieval murder victim from 1,400 years ago was likely a member of the Scottish royal family
In 2016, a team of investigators with the Rosemarkie Caves Project were searching along the coast of the Black Isle, far up the the Scottish...
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Oldest frescos ever found in the Mediterranean region feature the Tree of Life
A team of archaeologists excavating an ancient palace in Lebanon came across some stunning wall paintings that include a depiction of the Tree of Life...
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Evidence of 2,000-year-old brain surgery found in Russia
Archaeologists announced they found the remains of a Samaritan warrior who likely died as a result of brain surgery that apparently failed. Brain surgery is...
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The elaborate grave of a mystery warrior who fought against Caesar’s invasion of Britain
It’s an ancient Gallic grave that archaeologists are calling “the most elaborately equipped warrior grave ever found in England,” and it’s about to be put...
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Veterans uncover amputated limbs at the Battle of Waterloo archaeological site
Archaeologists working at the Belgian site where the Battle of Waterloo took place made a gruesome discovery recently that just goes to show how serious...
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Ax-wielding woman Viking warrior may have been found in Viking cemetery
The popular “Vikings” television series on History Channel depicts female warriors fighting and dying alongside men, but did Viking women warriors actually exist? A recently...
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‘It’s almost like it sank yesterday’: Perfectly-preserved ship found from the time of Columbus, Da Vinci
Maritime archeologists recently found a incredibly well-preserved ship from the Age of Discovery in the Baltic Sea, and were amazed the 500-600 year old vessel...
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Researchers find evidence confirming early accounts of the First Crusade in 1099
The Crusades were a series of attempts by European Christians to recapture the Holy Land, which began in 1096 with the First Crusade that ended...
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Legendary sunken city gives up more astonishing archaeological treasures
Ever since the legendary city of Heracleion was found by archaeologists who were diving for “French warships,” it’s been giving up its secrets of the...
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Biblical hometown of Goliath uncovered in Israel, and the ruins are giant-sized
Piecing together biblical history is not an easy job, but archaeologists are doing it every day in Israel. And another piece of the puzzle came...
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Scientists discover that the plague evolved as it killed millions during the first recorded pandemic
Known as the Justinian plague named after Emperor Justinian I, the Y. pestis outbreak of 541 is the world’s first recorded pandemic that killed millions...
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Archaeologist finds rare Roman glass in Britain, two years later they complete the picture
It took two years to identify, but the story of a rare piece of Roman glass discovered at the site of a Roman villa in...
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Space, the final frontier…for archaeologists?
Over fifty years ago on July 20, 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the...
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Study of Viking community reveals that half of population were immigrants
Known as the oldest town in Sweden, Sigtuna was a Viking community, but researchers have discovered through DNA testing that half of the population were...
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Archaeologists discover 115,000 year-old bone engravings possibly created by Denisovans
The oldest human bone engraving has just been unearthed by an international team of archaeologists in China, shedding light on an ancient human species that...
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Archaeologists may have found the Church of the Apostles by the Sea of Galilee
In what could be one of the most significant discoveries made by archaeologists in the region to date, a team in Israel may have just...
