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Hasmonean-Era Jewish Town Possibly Discovered In Mount Hebron
Near Mount Hebron a Hasmonean town is slowly being found
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Eight Ancient Shipwrecks Found Off The Coast Of Greek Island
Near the Greek island of Naxos 8 shipwrecks were found with amphorae.
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Indonesian island found to be unusually rich in cave paintings
The island of Kisar in Indonesia contains 28 sites of cave paintings in a new exploration
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Medieval Bronze Ring Depicting St. Nicholas Found By An Israeli Gardener
A possible Crusader ring bearing the image of St. Nicholas was discovered by a gardener in Israel as he tended a plot in his farming community.
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Diver Accidentally Discovers 7,000-Year-Old Native American Burial Ground Submerged In Florida
What a diver thought was a neat souvenir off the coast of Florida turned into the Manasota Offshore Key archaeological site.
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Copper Age Iberians 'exported' their culture -- but not their genes -- all over Europe
The spread of the Beaker culture throughout Europe now seems to have been mainly cultural and not through migration according to a study by the Spanish National Research Council of 400 prehistoric cultures.
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Historic Findings: Ile-Ife Glass
The glass found in Ile-Ife last year has now been confirmed to be African in origin and nature.
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ISIS Blew Up This Temple And Accidentally Revealed Something Amazing
In the remains of the destroyed Tomb of Younis, courtesy of ISIS, researchers have actually discovered the remains of inscriptions, carvings and other materials from the reign of the Neo-Assyrian King Esarhaddon, father of Ashurbanipal and one of the last kings of the kingdom.
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Ottoman-era ceramics, coins found during construction work in western Turkey
A collection of Ottoman-era coins along with some ceramics in the Çanakkale province.
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Experts may have found a long lost Viking settlement in North America
A long lost Viking settlement that featured in sagas passed down over hundreds of years, may have been located on the east coast of Canada.
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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 banquet hall found in temple compound in Japan
A series of pits were discovered in Nara which dated back to the Asuka period of Japan. The pits were believed to outline a banquet hall used by the ancient peoples.
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LiDAR scans are finding hidden Roman roads and cutting crime
Plans are afoot to map the whole of England using LiDAR by 2020
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2,700-Year-Old Seal Belonging To City Governor Found In Old Jerusalem
A 2700 year old seal belonging to a governor of the city of Jerusalem during Israel's First Temple period was discovered.
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Trump signs bill recognizing Virginia Indian tribes
President Trump signed a bill federally recognizing the Chickahominy, Eastern Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Rappahannock, Monacan and Nansemond tribes of Virgina.
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Turkish agency restores 5 Ottoman-era legacies in Albania
The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency is starting restoration of 5 Ottoman-era mosques in Albania.
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The USS Lexington wreckage was found off Australian coast
The USS Lexington was discovered in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Australia (by 800 km). The ship took part in the Battle of the Coral Sea and will actually be left on the ocean floor since the US Navy considers it a war grave.
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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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Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg, author of Sea Monsters, explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.
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Is It Possible To Fit the Civil War Into a Single Chart? Here's One Beautiful Attempt.
This chart, digitized by the Library of Congress, depicts major battles, troop losses, skirmishes, and other events in the American Civil War....The “Scaife Synoptical Method,” advertised at the top of the timeline, aimed to fit as much information as possible into a single chart.
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