Archeology
The controversy about the Sphinx in Egypt
The Sphinx on the Giza plateau symbolizes a lion's head creature, protecting the Egyptian pharaoh's tomb.
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The world's largest lion species was eradicated by the ancient people
Cave lions, the largest lion species that ever lived on Earth, may fall into extinction due to human hunting by the skin during the Stone Age.
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Reviving a lion from a corpse intact for 12,000 years
From DNA samples taken from intact frozen baby lions after 12,000 years, international scientists are hoping to revive cave lions that once wandered on Earth in the Ice…
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Ancient Mexican tribe raised lion leopard with human flesh
A group of American scientists found evidence showing ancient Teotihuacan people in Mexico for lion lions to eat human bodies after sacrificial rites.
Archeology
Thousand-year sphinx statue in the tomb of Tang Dynasty
Scientists found a sphinx statue dating back more than 1,000 years in the ancient Tang tomb in northwestern China.
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Detected the double lion's body 12,000 years intact
Under the thousand-year-old ice of Siberia, the corpses of the young cave lion are still as intact as they were when they were full of feathers, skin and internal organs.
Archeology
The intact ancient city of the lake is incredibly beautiful
Do you have a 1,300-year-old city called 'Atlantis of the East' that remains intact at the bottom of an artificial lake?
Archeology
Detecting wooden blocks with strange shapes over 500 years old on the seabed
After a sleep longer than 500 years in the sea,
Archeology
New fossil carnivorous dinosaurs discovered in South America
The fossil of a lion-sized carnivorous dinosaur, which specializes in eating smaller species of it, was discovered in a volcanic valley in Venezuela.
Archeology
Detecting debris from a 40-thousand-year-old mammoth ivory statue
Archaeologists from the University of Tubigen (Germany) found ivory fragments belonging to an animal statue dating to about 40,000 years.
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City of thousand years old at the bottom of the lake
An ancient city built in China from 1,300 years ago still retains many intact structures despite being located deep below the artificial lake.
Archeology
Detecting Hue Bien fossils on Dong Van stone plateau
During the survey to develop the development plan of the Geopark, Professor Autur Sa of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Portugal discovered Hue Bien fossil in the area of …
Archeology
Discovered 3000-year-old stone lion in Turkey
The leading archaeologists working at the University of Toronto, Canada, discovered a complex city gate decorated with stone sculptures, including a stone lion ...
Archeology
The link lacks the origin of seals, sea lions and walruses
New research shows that Puijila is the missing link in the evolution of a group of animals today, including seals, sea lions and walruses.
Archeology
Bagged lions once existed
Australia today lacks large predators who live on land, but only about 30,000 years ago this continent was the territory of the Thylacoleo carnifex - a lion with a bag.