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Archaeologists say they uncovered King David's Palace
Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered two large buildings fit for a king. Not just any king they say; but the palace of Biblical King David.
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Unearthed Mayan Tablet Tells of Power Struggle
A large stone monument dating to A.D. 564 tells a tale of a royal struggle for the throne of the ancient Mayan empire.
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Sunken WWI U-Boats a Bonanza for Historians
British archaeologists recently discovered more than 40 German U-boats sunk during World War I off the coast of England. Now they are in a race against time to learn the secrets hidden in their watery graves.
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72 million-year-old dinosaur tail unearthed in nearly perfect condition
The fossilized remains of a truly ancient dinosaur have been discovered in the north-Mexican state of Coahuila. Remarkably preserved for their estimated age of 72 million years, the 50 vertebrae that were dug up once formed the basis for a 15-foot tail that was attached to a 40-foot dinosaur.
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Eggs From Giant, Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Found
Huge meat-eating dinosaurs that stalked a vast floodplain some 150 million years ago in what is now Portugal left behind traces of their progeny: eggshells.
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Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
Telltale blade sharpeners may be smoking guns in the quest for the New World's second known Viking site.
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Lost Egyptian City Discovered Beneath The Sea After 1,200 Years
Originally called ‘Heracleion’ by the Greeks but named ‘Thonis’ by the ancient Egyptians, the existence of the mythical city was confirmed to be true when in 2000, Dr. Frank Goddio (an underwater archaeologist) made one of the most important discoveries of the 21st century.
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The largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found (pic)
The world-famous fossil known as “Sue” is the largest, best-preserved, and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever found. Sue measures 42 feet long from snout to tail and 13 feet tall at the hip.
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8 Ruined Cities That Remain a Mystery to This Day
The world is full of ruined cities, but some have such mysterious rises and falls that they haunt our imaginations. Even if we know who built them, certain aspects of the city may simply defy comprehension in the modern age. Here are 8 ancient cities that we may never fully understand.
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4 Amazing Things Hiding On Earth (That We Just Discovered)
Because of such technological marvels as Google Maps (and the many volumes of Where's Waldo?), you'd think that every inch of planet Earth has been thoroughly documented by this point. But the truth is, science pulls mind-blowing finds out of its cavernous, all-knowing ass more or less every 15 minutes. Here are four amazing discoveries that just occurred while the rest of civilization was bingeing on Teen Mom and waffle tacos.
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Archeologists in Brazil find 200,000 items, including toothbrush thought to be emperorâs
An ivory toothbrush thought to have belonged to Brazil’s Emperor Pedro II and a minty toothpaste made by a European chemist for the Portuguese queen are among more than 200,000 pieces dating from the 17th through 19th centuries that archeologists have unearthed from a site in Rio de Janeiro being used for an extension the city’s subway lines.
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Penis Fossils Show How Extinct Bear Mated
Penis bones offer the first hard evidence of how an extinct species of bear lived and mated, a new study says.
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Roots of ancient flowers reach back to dinosaur times
Newfound fossils hint that flowering plants arose 100 million years earlier than scientists previously thought, suggesting flowers may have existed when the first known dinosaurs roamed Earth, researchers say.
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Backhoe cuts into dinosaur's tail, revealing rare fossil find
It's like a scene out of a Flintstones comic. Fred is running a backhoe and drops its shovel right on top of a dinosaur's tail. It happened in Canada this week when the backhoe laid bare an extremely rare find, the fossil of a dinosaur millions of years old.
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The Oldest Alcoholic Drinks on Earth
A long-preserved historical artifact always carries an air of heady mystery with it. You're touching something that people touched hundreds of years ago. But when it's an alcoholic beverage, preserved for centuries, that head-spinning feeling has the potential to become real. Here are the oldest drinks still in existence.
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Human brain boiled in its skull lasted 4000 years
It may look like nothing more than a bit of burnt log, but it is one of the oldest brains ever found. Its discovery, and the story now being pieced together of its owner's last hours, offers the tantalising prospect that archaeological remains could harbour more ancient brain specimens than thought. If that's the case, it potentially opens the way to studying the health of the brain in prehistoric times.
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Archaeologists unearth Sweden's own Pompeii
Swedish archeologists have uncovered the remains of a brutal fifth century massacre at a remote island fort, described as being 'frozen in time' like the ruins of the Roman city of Pompeii. Bodies of victims slaughtered in the violence on the island of Öland, just off the Swedish coast, have remained untouched for centuries, and were found to resemble a modern day crime scene.
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Scientists Find Evidence Of Prehistoric Recycling
If you thought the green movement was a 21st century phenomenon, you’re off by about half a million years. Research shows our prehistoric, cave-dwelling ancestors also lived by the apothegm of the Three Rs (reduced, reuse, recycle).
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Blood-filled mosquito is a fossil first
Insect’s bloated abdomen carries traces of blood molecules that are 46-million-years old.
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Brits were the first to eat frogs’ legs - not the French
Discovery close to Stonehenge means that the French - far from being the inventors of the amphibious delicacy - may have stolen it from British cuisine
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