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The corpse of a noble woman who lived in the 17th century also wore preserved clothes that were nearly intact, discovered by French archaeologists in a coffin of lead, b…
Natural sea pearls excavated in an Australian archaeological site in 2011 dating back 2,000 years.
A music professor said he found a rare image of the artist Leonardo da Vinci in an ancient 500-year-old painting.
Coming to Santana do Cariri Museum of the City of Cariri in the Brazilian state of Ceara these days, visitors will admire the oldest fossil discovered in this country an…
Recently, excavated archaeologists have been fossilized by a dinosaur whose monstrous face resembles a Marvel comic character.
French archaeologists said the condition of the mummy is well preserved. Shoes, skirts and hats buried under the deceased are intact after more than 3 centuries.
The first time Grigory Kessel held an ancient book over 1,000 years old, he was suspicious because he looked familiar.
Recently, British archaeologists have uncovered new evidence of the prehistoric golden artifact of 4,500 years ago, between Devon, Cornwall (England) and Ireland.
Excavation projects at the Canadian dinosaur fossil park have collected tens of thousands of fossil specimens of 45 different dinosaurs.
Experts also discovered countless precious jewels buried with this beautiful sparkling remains.
The scientists discovered residual traces of red blood cells and connective tissue in dinosaur fossil foundations of 75 million years old.
Archaeologists have discovered an ancient skeleton in the Copacabana peninsula of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. Research shows that brain surgery has been performed since prim…
Scientists have found fossils of a new carnivorous dinosaur on Wales beach, in the UK. It was identified as a relative to Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex), a giant carnivorous…
Egyptian scientists first discovered the complete fossil of a Basilosaurus whale 40 million years old, inside is another whale.
British scientists believe that Dreadnoughtus, the longest dinosaur in the neck, weighs only 40 tons. While the scientific world previously thought it weighed 60 tons.