Archeology
Discover the most original 4-legged fossil fossils
Scientists have unearthed a skull of the oldest four-legged creature in history, in the stone class of Latvia. This whole specimen has intermediate characteristics betwe…
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The discovery of the mammoth elephant fossil bone in Mexico
Archaeologists from Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered in La Piedra, Queretaro state, bordering the Mexican state to the north, a preh…
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Arab genes in the Iron Age tomb of Denmark
An ancient Danish with an Arab gene group - part of a DNA study - shows that Scandinavian people 2,000 years ago are more genetically diverse today.
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The location for drawing stone paintings is chosen based on music
According to a new analysis of the Paleolithic caves in France, prehistoric people choose places with natural echoes to paint their famous cave sketches.
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The strange hypothesis about the origin of pharaoh Akhenaten
Scientists discovered in pharaoh Akhenaten - the father of Tutankhamun reputation - a few strange mutations.
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Musical instruments from pre-Columbian times
Scientists were stunned by the discovery of a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay skull whistle in each hand.
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Phishing Art: The truth about crystal skulls
Only three months after the Quai Branly Museum in Paris discovered a cherished crystal skull was a mysterious Aztec masterpiece, a fake, the British Museum and the bitte…
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Qin Shihuang's terracotta army was painted with eggs
The collection of 7,000 terracotta statues of soldiers and horses in China's Qin Shihuang tomb was once covered with eggs, above the bright colored paint.
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Pharaoh Seti I's grave is bigger than people think
Egyptian archaeologists have discovered that the pharaoh's tomb is powerful Seti I - the largest tomb in the Valley of the Kings - bigger than anyone ever thought.
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Secrets of the separation process of the ancient supercontinent
In an article published in Geophysical Journal International, Dr. Graeme Eagles of the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway - University of London revealed how…
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New assumptions about the relics of Alexander the Great?
Researchers say an ancient Greek tomb once thought to be of Alexander the Great's father actually belonged to his half-brother.
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Egyptian pyramid is full of shells
Many famous works of ancient Egypt, such as the Sphinx and Cheops pyramid, contain hundreds of thousands of sea fossils, most of them intact, lying dormant in walls, a n…
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Humans are almost extinct
With more than 6.6 billion people living on the planet today, who knows that 70,000 years ago, harsh droughts continued to dramatically depress human populations and pus…
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Ancient plant compounds discovered in salt walls of waste treatment sites
It has just been discovered that cellulose dating back 253 million years along with some perhaps ancient DNA samples in salt crystals under a ground of nuclear waste in…
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Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten is affectionate
The ancient Egyptian emperor Akhenaten was not a true man, though he was the father of at least half a dozen children. In fact, his body is quite feminine, with an egg-s…