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The mystery of India’s other golden temple: Archaeologists begin hunt for fabled hoard of treasure
As a boy, Ram Sagar listened to legends about untold riches that were said to lie beneath the very ground he was now clearing with a shovel. The stories said there was an enormous hoard of gold, the lost treasures of a king who had risen up against British rulers and been hanged for his dissent.
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Archaeologists Found Lost Site of the Last Neanderthals
Archaeologists found geological deposits in the Channel island of Jersey which they believed may be the lost site of the last Neanderthals. Their discovery suggests that the Homo Sapiens became extinct later than we thought.
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Zenobia: Empress of the East, How a Prince Became a Princess
Quick Sex Change in Etruria
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Lasers, Drones, and Future Tech on the Front Lines of Archaeology
James Newhard is Director of Archaeology at the College of Charleston, where he works to bring 3D imaging, mobile technology and geographic information systems to a field more popularly associated with shovels and dusty brushes. Gizmodo got in touch with Dr. Newhard to learn how he uses emerging tech to dig deep into ancient societies.
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1,700-Year-Old Roman Child's Coffin Unearthed In British Field
A group of intrepid treasure-seekers in England have stumbled across what is believed to be the coffin of a young child dating back to the time of the Romans. Metal detectorists from the Digging Up The Past Metal Detecting Club discovered the child-sized coffin last weekend in a ploughed field a few miles west of Hinckley, in Leicestershire, England, reports the Leicester Mercury.
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Palaeontology: The truth about T. rex
Even one of the best known dinosaurs has kept some secrets. Here is what palaeontologists most want to know about the famous tyrant.
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Australia’s Oldest Bird Footprints Are 100-Million-Years-Old
A recent discovery in Australia proves that there were birds living alongside other kinds of dinosaurs on the continent 100 million years ago. Australia’s oldest bird footprints, from the Early Cretaceous period, were found in a slab of rock recovered from the cliffs of Dinosaur Cove, a fossil-rich area on the coast of southern Victoria near Melbourne. The finding of the ancient bird tracks helps paleontologists better understand Australia’s prehistoric timeline.
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1,800-year-old Roman eagle sculpture found by archaeologists in London
A superb Roman eagle in near pristine condition, serpent prey still wriggling in its beak, has been found by archaeologists in the City of London. A symbol of immortality and power, it was carefully preserved when the aristocratic tomb it decorated was smashed up more than 1,800 years ago – and is regarded as one of the best pieces of Romano-British art ever found.
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The kraken rises! New fossil evidence revives sea monster debate
Did a giant kraken troll the Triassic seas, crushing ichthyosaurs and arranging their bones into pleasing patterns? It sounds like a Halloween tale, but researchers who first suggested the existence of this ancient sea monster in 2011 say they now have more evidence backing up their controversial theory.
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Viking Graves Yield Grisly Find: Sacrificed Slaves
A Viking burial in Norway contained the bodies of Viking masters and their slaves, who were probably beheaded and offered as grave gifts.
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Ancient builders slid 100-ton rocks on ice paths to construct China's Forbidden City
On a first-time trip to Beijing for an engineering conference last year, Howard Stone visited the Forbidden City, the seat five centuries of dynastic rule since the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century A.D., and a historical site today. After stopping by several intricately carved, massive, single-rock structures, someone in Stone's group marveled at the skill and smarts needed to haul such massive rocks into place.
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The New Golden Age of Archaeology Is Right Now
Forget Indiana Jones -- there's a new crop of archaeologists using space tech to uncover the world's mysteries.
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Rare Life Dating Back 3.5 Billion Years Found
Gloppy mats of microscopic life left the same signature on coastal and river bank sediments 3.48 billion years ago that they do today. Earth scientists recently discovered that signature, known as a “microbially induced sedimentary structure” (MISS), on rocks from 300 million years earlier than any previously known MISS fossils.
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Oldest Big Cat Fossils Discovered in Tibet
The earliest known big cat lived in what is now China between 5.9 million and 4.1 million years ago, newfound fossils of the ancient prowler suggest.
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Dogs likely originated in Europe more than 18,000 years ago, biologists report
Wolves likely were domesticated by European hunter-gatherers more than 18,000 years ago and gradually evolved into dogs that became household pets, UCLA life scientists report.
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'Duelling dinosaurs' for auction
Two dinosaurs thought to have been locked in combat when they died are to be auctioned in New York next week. Thomas Lindgren, of auction house Bonhams described the pair as being "so important to science because of the fact they were found in a context that appears to be they killed each other."
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Ancient DNA links Europe to America
Scientists have mapped the genome of a four-year-old boy who died in south-central Siberia 24,000 years ago.
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Rare skull sparks human evolution controversy
Fragments of humans' ancient relatives are scattered across the globe. Sometimes a tooth or a few bones are all we have to tell us about an entire species closely related to humans that lived thousands or millions of years ago.
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Archaeologists discover largest, oldest wine cellar in Near East: 3,700 year-old store room held 2,000 liters of strong, sweet wine
Archaeologists have unearthed what may be the oldest -- and largest -- ancient wine cellar in the Near East, containing 40 jars, each of which would have held 50 liters of strong, sweet wine.
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Aged to perfection? Found -3,700-year-old cellar housed 'luxurious' wine
A 3,700-year-old palatial cellar packed with jars once filled with a wine-like brew has been discovered at an archaeological site.
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