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A romantic message engraved on a piece of bone over 900 years ago was found in Sweden.
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A romantic message engraved on a piece of bone over 900 years ago was found in Sweden.
Recent archaeologists have discovered a special burial site containing the skeletons of 12 dogs from the 14th century.
An ancient city built in China from 1,300 years ago still retains many intact structures despite being located deep below the artificial lake.
Italian researchers are taking DNA samples to find the true image of the Mona Lisa.
A Malaysian university on February 19 discovered the teeth of a fish-eating dinosaur that existed at least 75 million years ago.
Israeli archaeologists recently discovered traces of houses and many household belongings belonging to an ancient village 2,300 years ago.
Pushed into the path of extinction tens of thousands of years ago, the Neanderthals still have the opportunity to avenge by inheriting a dangerous disease for modern peo…
Swedish archaeologists have recently excavated many antiques located under the Baltic Sea in northern Europe, believed to belong to an ancient residential area from the…
An intact skull of a strange-headed dinosaur lived more than 70 million years ago in Canada.
The land on the surface of the globe was once incorporated as Rodinia's supercontinent, and now experts say it has found its remains buried under the Indian Ocean.
A couple living in Northern California, the United States was fortunate to discover a treasure with 8 jars filled with gold coins in their yard.
The mysteries associated with a 9 million-year-old whale graveyard in the Atacama desert located next to the Pan-American highway in Chile were finally revealed.
A recent study published in the journal PLoS ONE (February 26, 2014) reveals the heavenly facts about a mysterious mummy of an Inca woman tortured brutally in a murder r…
The oldest piece of cheese in the world, dating to over 3,600 years, was discovered on the neck and chest of intact mummies in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China.
The mysteries surrounding the Anglo-Saxon warrior king promise to be discovered soon, after a piece of his remains was finally found.