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Discovered dinosaurs never known in Argentina
Archeology

Discovered dinosaurs never known in Argentina

Paleontologists from the National University of La Matanza, Argentina yesterday announced the fossil discovery of lizard foot dinosaurs that lived 110 million years ago…

December 17, 2018
Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind
Archeology

Elephant birds are nocturnal and blind

Researchers at the University of Texas say the bird, once living in Madagascar, is a nocturnal species and is likely to be blind, based on studying its brain shape.

December 17, 2018
Trails have to touch 60,000 ancient tombs
Archeology

Trails have to touch 60,000 ancient tombs

200 archaeologists have been invited to participate in the construction of the HS2 train line - a new high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham (England).

December 17, 2018
What did humans eat from 8,000 years ago?
Archeology

What did humans eat from 8,000 years ago?

An international team of researchers from the Department of Human History at the University of Iena (France), Freie University Berlin and York University have identified…

December 17, 2018
Discovered a thousand-year-old wine in China
Archeology

Discovered a thousand-year-old wine in China

Chinese archaeologists have recently found an ancient copper jar of 2,000-year-old age in an ancient tomb containing an equivalent age-specific wine.

December 17, 2018
Find the body of the
Archeology

Find the body of the

V1 is the unmanned, predecessor of today's guided missile. It was one of thousands of German

December 17, 2018