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Scientists are x-raying the Amazon, unlocking a lost human history
Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.
Archaeologists hike up a cliff and find 20,000-year-old stone tools
A team of archeologists in South Africa had to climb to new heights to find an important set of tools made by humans about 20 ...
Locals notice dusty items in empty lot — and find 500-year-old treasures in Peru
On the outskirts of Lima, Peru, locals stumbled upon some dusty items in a vacant lot. They didn’t know it at the time, but ...
Older Than Stonehenge? Groundbreaking Discovery at “Unusual” Ancient Burial Site Rewrites Neolithic History
New research reveals that Flagstones in Dorset dates back to 3,200 BC, offering new insight into the origins of monumental ...
A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
Indian Defence Review1d
60 Years Later, a Hidden Medieval Treasure Resurfaces Beneath a Norwegian Church
A childhood discovery beneath a Norwegian church has resurfaced decades later as a historical treasure. What seemed like a ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Archaeologists Uncover a ‘Monumental’ Hunting Kit in Texas That May Be the Oldest Found in North America Yet
The artifacts discovered in a cave—which include dart tips, a boomerang and a spear-throwing tool—were dated to as far back ...
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Lost City of the Samurai
Archaeologists rediscover Ichijodani, a formidable stronghold that flourished amid medieval Japan’s brutal power struggles ...
4,000-year-old musical instrument unearthed in Oman. See the ‘rare’ finds
While sifting through the ruins of an ancient building in Oman, archaeologists unearthed a pair of green-blue discs. The ...
Archeologists find ancient child remains inside Maya altar
Remains of other children were also found on three sides of the altar. Lorena Paiz, the archaeologist who led the discovery, ...
A Student Had a Hunch About a Stone Circle. Turns Out a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site Was Beneath It.
A six-foot-tall standing ceremonial stone in a Derbyshire forest had one archaeology enthusiast searching for more. Well, ...
‘Rare’ lost tomb of Roman gladiator found 2,000 years later in ‘extraordinary’ discovery: scientists
Researchers made the “extraordinary” find while excavating a 1,600-square-foot necropolis — an ancient cemetery with ornate tomb monuments — located near the location of the ancient settlement of ...