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Hungary: Discover an ancient forest of 8 million years old
Archaeologists have discovered a swamp forest (taxodium) of more than 8 million years in Bukkabrany, northeast of Hungary.
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Discover the world's oldest chewing gum
Sarah Pickin, 23, a Scottish archaeologist, found a piece of 5,000-year-old chewing gum on an experimental trip on the Finnish coast - something she initially thought is…
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Diamond 4 billion years old
Australian scientists have dug a diamond that is up to 4 billion years old, equivalent to the age of the earth. Diamonds are found in the Jack Hills area in western Aust…
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Found honeycomb 3,000 years old in Israel
Recent archaeologists working in northern Israel have discovered the vivid evidence of the ancient beekeeping industry including beeswax, bees and what is called the
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Germany: Detects an 35,000-year-old ivory mammoth
German archaeologists for the first time discovered an intact mammoth statue in southern Germany. The ivory statue, 4cm long and 7.5g in weight, is dated to the Ice Age…
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Egypt: Identify the identity of mummies more than 3,000 years old
On June 27, Egyptian archaeologists in Cairo said they had identified the identity of the more than 3,000-year-old mummy discovered in 1903. That's the female mummy coug…
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Discover the mummy of a young mammoth
After thousands of years buried in permafrost in northwest Siberia, the tiny mammoth is now put to the surface, and may be the best specimen of this genre. Confirmation…
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Secret under the old latrine
It turns out, the place where the old, crumbling latrine for 130 years is the
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Japan: Found melon ... 2,100 years old
Japanese archaeologists have found a piece of melon skin about 2,100 years old. This is considered the oldest melon peel that archaeologists ever discovered.
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Discovered a 1300-year-old Tiwanaku tomb
On May 2, archaeologists unearthed a tomb of the ancient Tiwanaku civilization inside a pyramid in western Bolivia. The corpse inside this tomb may have been a king or a…
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Researching human ancestors with a tomography machine
A very high resolution tomography machine called XtremeCT was originally designed to study osteoporosis in astronauts, which has been used to study the teeth and teeth o…
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Tyrant dinosaurs are brothers with chickens
Tiny pieces of protein taken from a 68 million-year-old dinosaur bone have provided the first genetic evidence that suggests that the tyrant dinosaurs are distant relati…
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Paris: Auction for 15,000-year-old mammoths
Christie Paris collectibles group has just opened an auction of huge Siberia mammoth skeleton with a life of over 15,000 years. The owner of this precious skeleton spent…
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Discovered the statue of the goddess Hera
Greek archaeologists on March 1 announced they have found a 2,200-year-old statue of Hera god built in the wall of a city at the foot of Mount Olympus, home to the gods…
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4,800-year-old artificial eyes found in Iran
Archaeologists working in the historic city of Burnt (southeastern Iran) have discovered an artificial eye - used by a very young woman at the time - who was about 4,800…