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Detecting insane mad graveyards
Archeology

Detecting insane mad graveyards

Many skeletons have just been discovered in an ancient graveyard of about 450 years, located deep underground, just below Liverpool Street Station - now the largest buil…

December 17, 2018
China: discovered 5,000-year-old writing
Archeology

China: discovered 5,000-year-old writing

Chinese archaeologists say they have found some at least 5,000 year old texts on fragments of two ancient stone axes that have been excavated.

December 17, 2018
2,000-year-old tomb in Mexico
Archeology

2,000-year-old tomb in Mexico

Scientists have discovered a tomb containing 30 sets of remains and part of the remains of a 2,000-year-old pyramid east of Mexico.

December 17, 2018
Fertilizers were used 8,000 years ago
Archeology

Fertilizers were used 8,000 years ago

During the Stone Age around 6,000 years BC, farmers knew how to use cattle manure such as cows, sheep, goats and pigs as a slow-release fertilizer for plants.

December 17, 2018
Unique discovery in ancient Po Dam tower
Archeology

Unique discovery in ancient Po Dam tower

Binh Thuan Museum in collaboration with the Archaeological Center (belonging to the Southern Institute of Sustainable Development) unearthed the group of temples Po Dam…

December 17, 2018
Lettuce - the sexual
Archeology

Lettuce - the sexual

Not only is the popular salad ingredient, lettuce (lettuce) once considered by the ancient Egyptians as an aphrodisiac herb and used as a symbol for the penis, follows a…

December 17, 2018
Giant fish of dinosaurs
Archeology

Giant fish of dinosaurs

Scientists have discovered a fish longer than 16m, twice as heavy as a double-decker bus and lived 160 million years ago.

December 17, 2018
Game of the King of Maya time
Archeology

Game of the King of Maya time

A stone column that seemed to be inanimate was still enough to convey thrilling details about the power struggle through many generations of ancient Maya.

December 17, 2018
Israel found traces of ancient roads in Jerusalem
Archeology

Israel found traces of ancient roads in Jerusalem

The Israeli Archeological Agency (IAA) on June 25 said that in Jerusalem, archaeologists found a vestige of an ancient road from the Roman Empire, which led from Jaffa c…

December 17, 2018
Discover treasures in ancient tombs in Peru
Archeology

Discover treasures in ancient tombs in Peru

Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient royal tomb more than a thousand years ago, they discovered that there were many treasures and mummies of women.

December 17, 2018