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Maya people use chocolate as spices
Archeology

Maya people use chocolate as spices

Archaeologists have discovered traces of 2,500-year-old chocolate on a plate on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico). That said, cocoa may have been used by the Mayans not onl…

December 17, 2018
Evidence of Samson legend
Archeology

Evidence of Samson legend

A small stone seal found in Israel may be the first archaeological evidence of Samson, the strongest man ever described in the Bible.

December 17, 2018
A new race will show up
Archeology

A new race will show up

Meave Leakey, a paleontologist of Kenya's Turkana Institute, and colleagues discovered fossil bones and jaw bone of people near the Koobi Fora region in northern Kenya i…

December 17, 2018
Found the Roman ship almost intact
Archeology

Found the Roman ship almost intact

A nearly intact Roman ship was discovered in the waters off the town of Varazze, about 30 km from Genoa and Italy.

December 17, 2018
Find 2 missing Egyptian pyramids
Archeology

Find 2 missing Egyptian pyramids

Images taken by the Google Earth satellite map show that this is probably the evidence of two long-lost Egyptian pyramid complexes.

December 17, 2018
Humanity comes from the mountain forests?
Archeology

Humanity comes from the mountain forests?

The nearest ancestor of a human lineage may have lived through the day by eating leaves, berries and bark of mountain forests instead of a grass-based menu as other exti…

December 17, 2018
DNA research from Jesus Christ
Archeology

DNA research from Jesus Christ

The bones of about 200 soldiers who died from Jesus are still in good condition under peat, allowing experts to hope for their ability to study DNA.

December 17, 2018
Detecting ancient texts during the Nguyen Dynasty
Archeology

Detecting ancient texts during the Nguyen Dynasty

In the afternoon (July 4), Mr. Ho Bach Khoa, Head of Management Board of Nguyen Du relic (Tien Dien commune, Nghi Xuan, Ha Tinh) said that in the process of carrying out…

December 17, 2018
Detecting giant bones as high as 3m
Archeology

Detecting giant bones as high as 3m

Scientists have discovered they have discovered very tall human skeletons dating back 24 to 25 thousand years in the Borzomsky ravine (Georgia). Experts claim it is the…

December 17, 2018