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The oldest nail in the world
Archeology

The oldest nail in the world

According to the American Journal of Athropology, the world's oldest nail, 55.8 million years ago, belongs to a species of extinct primitive named Teihardina brandti.

December 17, 2018
Peru exhibits more than 200 ancient mummies
Archeology

Peru exhibits more than 200 ancient mummies

Museum Leymebamba, Peru has just exhibited more than 200 mummies from Chachapoyas culture. The show took place last Saturday. Chachapoyas is a tribe living in the Amazon…

December 17, 2018
Found fossil lizard 120 million years old
Archeology

Found fossil lizard 120 million years old

A 120 million-year-old fossil has just been found in rocky mountains in northeastern China. This is the first fossil of a pregnant lizard found.

December 17, 2018
Finding dinosaur fossils are pregnant
Archeology

Finding dinosaur fossils are pregnant

Scientists at the University of London discovered in China that a female dinosaur has more than a dozen embryos growing well in the abdomen.

December 17, 2018
Discovering strange ancient insects
Archeology

Discovering strange ancient insects

Scientists from the German Museum of Stuggart, Germany have discovered a new class of insects, living in South America at the beginning of the White Rabbit era, Global S…

December 17, 2018
Join hands to decode ancient documents
Archeology

Join hands to decode ancient documents

Hundreds of thousands of pieces of papyrus were discovered more than 100 years ago in a warehouse in the city of Oxyrhynchus, Egypt, which was posted on the internet in…

December 17, 2018
Discovered a 1,000-year-old baseball player
Archeology

Discovered a 1,000-year-old baseball player

Recently, a group of Mexican archaeologists have found the statue of an intact baseball player, 1.75m high, dating back over 1,000 years, deep underground 1.5m at a stad…

December 17, 2018
The archaeological discovery of the Romans
Archeology

The archaeological discovery of the Romans

A sewer system and some skeletons have been found by archaeologists in the city of Herculaneum, India, helping answer the diet and lifestyle of the Romans who lived 2,00…

December 17, 2018
8-year meal of prehistoric people
Archeology

8-year meal of prehistoric people

Two Dutch biology archaeologists have just published studies of a grilled beef beef meal dating back to 7,700 years of prehistoric people ...

December 17, 2018
Found a cemetery for 1,000 years in Mexico
Archeology

Found a cemetery for 1,000 years in Mexico

On June 30, Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) announced that a group of archaeologists from the country had discovered a cemetery that ident…

December 17, 2018