Archeology
Occupation as a gladiator in Roman times
Enlightenment in Roman Empire is a inhuman pastime, very strange to today's society. However, in reality the feeling of competition is also a highly professional sport l…
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Ancient Egyptians love to eat pork
Ancient Egyptians, unlike Muslims, preferred pork. Pathologist Fabrizio Bruschi at the University of Pisa, Italy, and his colleagues have discovered the oldest case of p…
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Ancient eagle eats people
An American researcher believed he had deciphered the mystery of why one of the most important ancestors of humanity died two million years ago. An eagle killed a child…
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Unique outfit with bark
Quang Tri Province has discovered and collected unique ancient costumes. It is a set of 7 shirts made of bark, dating back hundreds of years. Mr. Ho Ta Khu, 70 years old…
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Discover an old kitchen in Indiana
Construction workers in Charlestown, Indiana, USA Park have discovered traces of a 4,000-year-old kitchen that American Indians can use to make winter dishes. Bob McCull…
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The capital of Van Lang is exposed at Lang Ca monument
The Ca Mau village excavation has just ended after 2 months. An additional 22 burials belonging to the Hung Vuong period were discovered, confirming that this place is t…
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Mysterious grave under Roman square
Scientists excavating underneath the Roman square found a 3,000-year-old tomb, a few hundred years earlier than the appearance of Rome. The tomb is shaped like a deep we…
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The first animals on the earth breathed with ears
Swedish studies on fossils of a fish that lived 370 million years ago have shown that hearing organs also grow as respiratory organs. Per Ahlberg of Uppsala University,…
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Scientists rewrite the evolutionary history of reptiles
A comprehensive analysis of the genetic relationship between snakes, lizards and other reptiles has produced a new genealogy diagram of this animal, a group of researche…
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Discovered turtles from the period of dinosaurs
The first prehistoric creature like modern modern turtles was discovered in a British quarry. Researchers have found a 120-million-year-old reptile with thick-legged mem…
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Traces of the horrific massacre of Maya
A millennium has passed, but the bloody massacre of Maya still left a creepy feeling: a king and queen of Cancuen dynasty, more than 30 nobles and pregnant women were at…
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The secret behind the mummy of ancient children in Chile
Living in a barren desert north of Chile's Pacific coast more than 7,000 years ago, the Chinchorro tribe began mysteriously embalming children's carcasses - removing org…
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The oldest Western map
Scientists have found a piece of earthenware as black as a stamp, depicting the Italian heel. It is called the Soleto map and dates back to 500 BC. The map depicting the…
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Are our ancestors joking?
Scientists have learned that the first jokes in the human world were born about 2 million years ago. Researching the ancient comedy drawings on the cave shows that the a…
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Excavation of giant water scorpion fossils
A Scottish scientist has discovered traces of a water scorpion that lived 330 million years ago, almost human in size. This is the first creature of this family to be di…