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Neanderthals Wore Makeup, Jewelry

Our Neanderthal cousins apparently picked their knuckles off the ground long enough to dabble in makeup and baubles, leading researchers to suggest they were no less intelligent than our direct...

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'Lost' Since 1885, Tomb Found Near Cairo

Archaeologists have discovered the 3,300-year-old tomb of the ancient Egyptian capital's mayor, whose resting place had been lost under the desert sand since 1885, when treasure hunters first carted...

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18th-Century Ship Unearthed at Ground Zero

Workers excavating at the World Trade Center site have unearthed the 32-foot-long hull of a ship likely buried in the 18th century. The vessel probably was used along with other debris to fill in land...

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Lost Pyramids Spotted From Space

An American Egyptologist thinks she’s discovered 17 buried pyramids, more than 1,000 lost tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements, using satellite photos and infra-red imaging. Ancient Egyptian structures...

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Markings Puzzle Israel Archaeologists

Peculiar, unexplained stone carvings created thousands of years ago and recently unearthed in Jerusalem are baffling archaeologists, reports AP . Israeli excavators discovered them in the floor of a...

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World's Oldest Fish Trap Found Near Sweden

Marine archaeologists have discovered fishing traps they think were constructed around 9,000 years ago. "This is the world's oldest find when it comes to fishing," says one expert. The researchers...

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Earliest Matches Found at Dig Site

Archaelogists say a set of peculiar, ancient artifacts might just be the earliest known matches. The cylindrical objects, fashioned from stone and clay, date back nearly 8,000 years. At first,...

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Archaeologists Find 16 Severed Hands in Egypt

Archaeologists digging up an ancient palace in Egypt uncovered a grisly stash of 16 severed human hands. The bones, dating back around 3,600 years, all belonged to right hands, and they were buried in...

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Richard III Might Be Buried Under Parking Lot

British drivers may be parking their cars on top of a king's bones. Archaeologists believe that Richard III, monarch of England from 1483 to 1485, could be buried underneath a parking lot in the city...

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Archaeologists Stumped by Sea of Galilee Mystery

What Israeli archaeologists know: A bigger-than-Stonehenge structure submerged in the Sea of Galilee is man-made, made of stones that originated nearby, and weighs about 60,000 tons. What they don't...

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World's Oldest Calendar Discovered in Scotland

The oldest calendar known to exist was created some 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia—but it's looking positively youthful in the face of a new find in northern Scotland. A dig at Warren Field in...

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Ancient Tomb's Warrior Prince Might Actually Be Princess

It’s a case of mistaken identity nearly 3,000 years in the making. Last month archaeologists in Tuscany, Italy, discovered what they believed to be the 2,600-year-old skeleton of an Etruscan prince in...

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Vandals Carve Initials in 1K-Year-Old Rock Art

It's called one of Utah's most prominent pieces of rock art. But as visitors made their way past the "Pregnant Buffalo" petroglyphs in Nine Mile Canyon on Memorial Day weekend, vandals decided to make...

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Rome's Colosseum Was Once a 'Condo'

If only these walls could talk. Rome's iconic Colosseum, built nearly 20 centuries ago in 72 AD, has long been known as the site of gory gladiator battles and animal slaughter. Now, archaeologists who...

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New Evidence: Alexander the Great's Dad in Greek Tomb

Remains found in an ancient tomb at Vergina nearly 40 years ago belong to none other than Alexander the Great's father, Greek researchers say. Their evidence: The bones and cremated remains show signs...

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Archaeologists Search for Slain Playwright's Remains

A Spanish official describes finding the remains of playwright Federico Garcia Lorca "like finding a needle in a haystack"—and the search for that needle has begun. Archaeologists yesterday kicked off...

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Newly Found Roman God Stumps Experts

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient sculpture of a bearded man standing in a plant—and while they say it's most definitely a god, they have no idea which one. Found at the site of a Roman temple...

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Archaeologists' '1M Mummies' Claim Was Way Off: Egypt

When researchers claimed to have found a million burials at a dig site in Egypt, the supposed news was widely reported—including on this site . But officials in the country say the claim is false, and...

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Near Irish 'Little Pompeii,' an Even More Ancient Site

The settlement of Dunlace on Northern Ireland's craggy North Coast is thought to have been founded in 1608, but was eventually abandoned after a fire destroyed much of it in 1642. The settlement, first...

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Mummified Remains Found in Indiana

Workers exploring the site of an intended quarry in rural Indiana stumbled upon a mummified body that experts say could be anywhere from 500 to 2,000 years old, the Times of Northwest Indiana reports....

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