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Archaeologists have discovered a massive 6th-century Indian pyramid beneath the site of a centuries old re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ.
Built on a hillside by the mysterious Teotihuacan culture, the pyramid was abandoned almost 1,000 years before Catholics began re-enacting t...
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Topaz
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The Fall Denver Show and Topaz Mountain Colorado Collecting Trip, September, 2006 Read more
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Arthropods
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Surprising New Branches on Arthropod Family Tree Any way you look at it -- by sheer weight, species diversity or population -- the hard-shelled, joint-legged creepy crawlies called arthropods dominate planet Earth. Because of their success and importance, scientists have been trying for decad...
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Chinese Arctic expedition
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Chinese Arctic expedition team returns home China's seventh Arctic expedition using the Chinese icebreaker Xuelong returned to its research base in Shanghai on Monday after a 78-day mission.Xuelong set out from Shanghai on July 11 and has since traveled 13,000 nautical miles to explore marine...
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Antikythera Mechanism
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A working reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek computer which was found at the bottom of the ocean in 1900 has been unveiled and is on display at the Technopolis museum, in Athens.
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Ancient mariners
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Archaeologists excavating the seabed off Cyprus have discovered the tools of ancient mariners, which they believe were used by foragers more than 10,000 years ago - before the island had permanent settlements. The underwater discovery of what archaeologists said were the oldest materials reco...
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Dun Deardail
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The fort of Dun Deardail was probably built in the first millennium BC or first millennium AD. Its first ever archaeological excavation took place in late 2015 as part of the Dun Deardail project which aims to increase our understanding of the hillfort and protect it for the future. Read more
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Ancient Settlements
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Australian researchers studying declassified spy satellite images have found widespread remains of ancient human settlements dating back 130,000 years in Syria.
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Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor
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Arctic Sea-Ice Monitor by AMSR-E Aug 16,2007Next» See more
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Thylacine
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Tasmanian Tiger Extinction Mystery A University of Adelaide project led by zoologist Dr Jeremy Austin is investigating whether the world-fabled Tasmanian Tiger may have survived beyond its reported extinction in the late 1930s. Dr Aus...
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Bubonic plague
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The Black Death continues to cast a shadow across England. Although the modern English population is more cosmopolitan than ever, the plagues known as the Black Death killed so many people in the Middle Ages that, to this day, genetic diversity is lower in England than it was in the 11th century, acco...
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Egyptian radiologists who performed the first-ever computed tomography (CT) evaluation of King Tutankhamun’s mummy believe they have solved the mystery of how the ancient pharaoh died. The CT images and results of their study were presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of N...
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Hunter gatherers
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Evidence from ancient European graves raises questions about ritual human sacrifice A fascinating new paper from the June issue of Current Anthropology explores ancient multiple graves and raises the possibility that hunter gatherers in what is now Europe may have practiced ritual human sacri...
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Mammoth hunters
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Study into Jersey Neanderthal mammoth hunters Archaeologists are investigating the truth behind the story that Ice Age Neanderthals in Jersey would push mammoths off cliffs in St Brelade for food. About 30 years ago, evidence suggested early residents of what is today the island of Jersey chased...
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Hala Sultan Tekke
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Finds in Bronze Age city confirm long-distance trade The Bronze Age city Hala Sultan Tekke (about 1600-1100 BC) in Cyprus is much larger than previously thought, and new finds suggest that its inhabitants were involved in trade reaching far beyond its immediate neighbours. Last summer, a Swedish...
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