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A team of archaeologists has found the most ancient civilization in Europe, near Yunatsite village, Pazardzhik District, in Bulgaria, the archeological teams leader Stoilka Ignatova told.

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An archaeological team has claimed to have found a Neolithic residential area on the Kelar Tepe, a prehistoric mound located in the Kelaradsht region in Irans northern province of Mazandaran.

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Iron age communities were thriving in what is now south east Northumberland, archaeologists have learned.
Earlier this year one of the most complete Iron Age settlements to be excavated in the North East, which consisted of around 50 roundhouses in an enclosed two-hectare area, was unearthed by the Tyne Wear Museums archaeology team at Banks Minings Delhi surface mine on the Blagdon Estate near Seaton Burn.
Now more excavations by the team in advance of opencast mining at Bankss nearby Shotton site have uncovered a further Iron Age settlement, dating from around 2,300 years ago.

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Chandigarh was part of Harappan civilisation 5,000 years ago
Not many people may know that modern-day Chandigarh city, mostly designed by Swiss born French architect and planner Le Corbusier, also has a pre-historic past.
About 5,000 years ago Chandigarh was home to the Harappans. The gently sloping plain, n which the city today exists, was once a part of Himalayas.

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An archaeological dig has revealed traces of a 3,000-year-old later Bronze Age round house in Bognor Regis in West Sussex, UK.
According to a report in the Observer, a large extraction pit, containing a large amount of prehistoric pottery, was also uncovered in this area. The haul included the complete base of a pottery vessel.
The archaeological excavations were carried out last August during the early stages of work on the campus.

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New research has suggested that a fortified settlement with a shrine that stood on a plateau near the eastern Larnaca coast in Cyprus, could have been the original gateway to Pyla, a village located in the eastern part of the island.
According to a report in Cyprus Weekly, earlier theories about the significance of the site at Larnaca coast were confirmed during this years fieldwork at the Pyla-Koutsopetria locality by the identification of a section of the wall, datable to the Late Bronze Age.

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A research paper has suggested that ancient settlements in the Amazon, now almost entirely obscured by tropical forest, were once large and complex enough to have hosted large, urban civilisations.
The paper has been co-authored by anthropologists from the University of Florida (UF) and Brazil, and a member of the Kuikuro, an indigenous Amazonian people who are the descendants of the settlements original inhabitants.

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Adventurers have long scoured Brazil's vast Amazon rainforest for traces of hidden cities buried deep in the jungle. But new research shows the country's dense and inhospitable jungles were once home to an intricate network of towns and roads built by one of the world's earliest urban civilisations.

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A Bronze Age building on Shetland which was moved, stone by stone, to save it from erosion will open to the public today.
The painstaking three-month operation to prevent the structure being claimed by the sea was carried out by archaeologists from St Andrews University, who were assisted by a group of specialists and local volunteers.
The ancient building at Cruester, on Bressay, which dates from the period 1500-1200BC, is significant as it could shed light on the use of another nearby structure.
Each stone was photographed and numbered before being moved to the new site, near Bressay Heritage Centre.

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Centuries-old shards of pottery mingle with spent ammunition rounds on a wind-swept mountainside in northern Afghanistan where French archaeologists believe they have found a vast ancient city.
For years, villagers have dug the baked earth on the heights of Cheshm-e-Shafa for pottery and coins to sell to antique smugglers. Tracts of the site that locals call the "City of Infidels" look like a battleground, scarred by craters.

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