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Unearthing A Thousand Year Old Burial Crypt At Santa Rita
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 30 days ago - 7newsbelize.com
All this week, conservatory work at Santa Rita slowed as under this tent site workers made what's being called "an incredible discovery." It's only what's known as a stair block, the site manager saw tell-tale signs
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Byzantine Site in Israel Yields Church-Shaped Lantern
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, discovery, interesting, humans, research, study, lantern, Israel )

Giana
- 30 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
A church-shaped lantern found near a Byzantine wine press casts flickering crosses of light.
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8 Mummy Finds Revealing Ancient Disease
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Marty
- 31 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Whether laid to rest in a simple grave or a grand tomb, the human body rarely survives the sweep of time. But in a few places where people deliberately mummified their dead, or the environmental conditions were right--very dry or wet--flesh and bone are
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Emperor Yang Of Sui Tomb Possibly Found In Yangzhou, China
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Marty
- 31 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
Archaeologists have found a tomb in eastern China that may be the grave of the notorious Emperor Yang of Sui, according to news reports.
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New Studies Shake Up Human Family Tree
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Giana
- 37 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Everybody knows "Lucy." For nearly four decades, this famous partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis, dated to 3.2 million years ago, has been an ambassador for our prehistoric past.
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10 Unbelievable Dinos That Really Existed
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Giana
- 38 days ago - news.discovery.com
Dinosaurs by their nature seem bizarre, larger than life -- mysterious. And the history of dinos is constantly rewritten. Here we present to you 10 dinos that are furrier, freakier and more colorful than we previously thought possible.
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Mysterious Stone Structure Found Beneath Sea of Galilee
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, Ben-Gurion University, discovery, humans, interesting, International Journal of Nautical Archae, investigation, Israel Antiquities Authority, news, research, science, world )

Dan
- 40 days ago - science.nbcnews.com
It's made of unhewn basalt boulders, weighs 60,000 tons, is 32 feet tall with a diameter of 230 feet, may be over 4,000 years old, and has archaeologists puzzled as to its origin. Logged in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
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Ancient Mysteries Revealed in Turkmen Desert Sands
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Marty
- 44 days ago - france24.com
Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.
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Bringing Babylon Back From the Dead
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 45 days ago - cnn.com
Babylon was one of the glories of the ancient world, its walls and mythic hanging gardens listed among the Seven Wonders
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Huge Find Throws New Light on Ancient Iraq
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Marty
- 46 days ago - phys.org
University of Manchester archaeologists have started the excavation of an enormous building complex in Iraq, thought to be around 4,000 years old.
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Byzantine Winepress, Unique Lantern Unearthed in Dig
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Marty
- 46 days ago - timesofisrael.com
Archaeologists digging near a spa in southern Israel have uncovered Byzantine-era remains that include a large wine-press and a unique clay lantern decorated with crosses.
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Dwarf Whale Survived Well Into Ice Age
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery, animals )

Marty
- 46 days ago - phys.org
Research from New Zealand's University of Otago detailing the fossil of a dwarf baleen whale from Northern California reveals that it avoided extinction far longer than previously thought.
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Shark Tooth Weapons Reveal Missing Shark Species in Central Pacific Islands
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 47 days ago - eurekalert.org
Sharks were culturally important to the Gilbertese Islanders; historic records indicate a complex ritual system surrounding shark fishing and making fishing gear and weapons from shark teeth
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UC Research on Maya Village Uncovers 'Invisible' Crops, Unexpected Agriculture
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 47 days ago - uc.edu
The research on the well-preserved plant remains found in a Maya village that was destroyed by a volcano's fury will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
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Jaw Bone May Be From Modern Human/Neanderthal Hybrid
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 49 days ago - archaeology.org
Silvana Condemi of the University of Ai-Marseille and her colleagues claim that a jaw from the Riparo di Mezzena rock shelter in northern Italy is from the first-known Neanderthal/modern human hybrid. "From the morphology of the lower
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