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Archaeologists find ancient necropolis in Egypt
Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry announced on Saturday the discovery of an ancient necropolis near the Nile Valley city of Minya, south of Cairo, the latest discovery in an area known to house ancient catacombs from the Pharaonic Late Period and the Ptolemaic dynasty. The large cemetery is located north of Tuna al-Gabal area, a vast archaeological site on the edge of the western desert. It hosts a range of family tombs and graves.
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Neanderthals – not modern humans – were first artists on Earth, experts claim
More than 65,000 years ago, a Neanderthal reached out and made strokes in red ochre on the wall of a cave, and in doing so, became the first known artist on Earth, scientists claim. The discovery overturns the widely-held belief that modern humans are the only species to have expressed themselves through works of art.
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Famed Archaeologist 'Discovered' His Own Fakes at 9,000-Year-Old Settlement
A famed archaeologist well-known for discovering the sprawling 9,000-year-old settlement in Turkey called Çatalhöyük seems to have faked several of his ancient findings and may have run a "forger's workshop" of sorts, one researcher says.
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Ancient Humans Weathered the Toba Supervolcano Just Fine
Volcanic eruptions can be bad for more than the unlucky people living in their shadows—in 1816, ash from the eruption of Mount Tambora in the Philippines blotted out the sun and led to a “year without a summer” as far away as Vermont. The massive eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia in 1883 lowered summertime temperatures across the world and disrupted weather patterns for years. But those eruptions—and pretty much any others—pale in comparison to Toba, a volcano that erupted on Sumatra in Indonesia 74,000 years ago. It was believed the disruptions caused by the super-eruption likely pruned a few branches off the early human family tree.
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A Deserted, Pristine Stretch of the Amazon was Home to a Million Humans
At twice the size of India, the Amazon is massive. But although it constitutes the world’s largest remaining tropical rainforest and hosts 10 percent of the world’s biodiversity and over 30 million humans, 95 percent of it remains unexplored. The terre firme is uncharted, and, according to a new paper, it hides many archaeological secrets.
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Satellite Images Reveal 81 Pre-Hispanic Settlements in the Amazon
The discovery adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests settlements in the Amazon were far more wide-ranging than scholars once thought
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1,500-Year-Old Onion Discovered in Sweden
According to a report in The Local, a burned lump recovered near a fireplace at Sandby Borg on the island of Öland is a 1,500-year-old onion. However, archaeologist Helena Victor explained that onions were not grown in Scandinavia at the time. She thinks the vegetable may have been imported from the Roman Empire as an exotic vegetable. “An onion doesn’t sound very interesting,” Victor said, but she notes that the next-oldest onion to have been found in Scandinavia dated to A.D. 650.
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Viking Age treasures connected to legendary Danish king found on German island
Archaeologists have made an extraordinary discovery on the island of Rügen: they have recovered coins and jewellery which date back to the reign of the well-known Danish king Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson (910-987). At the weekend archaeologists from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania excavated an area of about 400 square metres in an open field near the Rügen village of Schaprode.
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Boy unearths lost treasure of 10th century Danish king
A 13-year-old boy and an amateur archaeologist have helped to uncover a unique stash of lost treasure thought to be associated with the legendary Danish King "Harry Bluetooth," who brought Christianity to Denmark in the 10th century.
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Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre
Archaeologists in Sweden have uncovered startling evidence of a massacre more than 1500 years ago, when the inhabitants of a small village were struck down in their houses or as they fled along the street, and their bodies left to rot where they fell – with their treasures including beautiful jewellery and Roman gold coins. At Sandby Borg on the shore of Öland island, off the south-east coast of Sweden, there was no escape.
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Ancient human-sloth hunt hinted at in 15,000-year-old footprints
Find adds credence to the idea that people helped drive giant mammals to extinction
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Largest child sacrifice in history discovered in Peru
More than 140 children were unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, in what may be the largest child sacrifice in history.
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Egypt Says There Are No Hidden Rooms in King Tut's Tomb After All
New radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms inside King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber, Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Sunday, bringing a disappointing end to years of excitement over the prospect. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said an Italian team conducted extensive studies with ground-penetrating radar that showed the tomb did not contain any hidden, man-made blocking walls as was earlier suspected. Francesco Porcelli of the Polytechnic University of Turin presented the findings at an international conference in Cairo.
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Remains of ancient horse discovered at Pompeii
For the first time ever, archaeologists have been able to cast the complete figure of a horse that perished in the volcanic eruption at Pompeii. The "extraordinary" discovery was made outside the city walls, in Civita Giuliana to the north of Pompeii proper, the site's directors announced this week. Excavation in the area revealed what archaeologists identified as a stable, complete with the remains of a trough.
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Scientists discover 'oldest footprints on Earth' in southern China dating back 500 million years
Scientists in China have discovered what they claim are the oldest fossilised animal footprints ever found. The parallel tracks were formed in mud up to 551 million years ago in southern China's Yangtze Gorges. They potentially date to 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion, when arthropod and other animal life rapidly flourished, and when creatures with pairs of legs capable of leaving such footprints were thought to have arisen.
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How Easter Island’s stone heads got their huge hats
The people of Easter Island may have adorned their monumental statues with massive stone ‘hats’ by rolling the headgear up gentle ramps. The iconic statues of Easter Island, which is also known as Rapa Nui, were built after people reached the island in the thirteenth century. Sean Hixon at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and his colleagues sought to understand how the hats — the heaviest of which weighs nearly 12 tonnes — were hefted onto the lofty statues.
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Boy, 11, finds ‘1,000 year old message’ written in runes on pendant made of mammoth bone
Pavel Yakovlev makes ‘great scientific discovery’ near his village in Yakutia.
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Archaeologists unearth a mysterious sarcophagus in Egypt
Egyptian archeologists have unearthed a rare find -- an enormous black granite sarcophagus said to be the largest ever found in Alexandria, Egypt. And they don't know who or what lies inside. The 6-foot tall (185 cm) coffin was found buried about 16 feet (5 meters) underground, along with an alabaster head of a man whose features were worn beyond recognition.
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Crowdfunded archaeology: 'Dig Hill 80' explores the WWI Ypres Salient battlefield
Raising over €200,000 from the public, volunteer archaeologists have explored a German World War I trench fortress that was about to be bulldozed for a housing development. They found more than 100 fallen soldiers.
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Archeologists discover that bread was part of the real paleo diet
Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, thousands of years before they developed agriculture.
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