Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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Nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments revealed by laser mapping—many for the first time
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A Swedish orienteering enthusiast working on a map earlier in April stumbled across a stash of some fifty Bronze Age relics dating back over 2,500 years
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The curse of the buried treasure - Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.
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Canadian scuba diver in Mexico accidentally discovers vast, prehistoric industrial complex
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Africa’s biggest collection of ancient human footprints has been found
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Board-game piece from period of first Viking raid found on Lindisfarne – small glass crown thought to be rare archaeological link to raiders
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Thousand year old 12cm-long iron arrowhead was found high up in the mountains near Eidfjord in Norway
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Swedish authorities have announced the first Viking boat grave discoveries in the country in more than fifty years
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New species of ancient human discovered in Philippines cave
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The general was female? ASU professor, colleague uncover 200-year-old mystery from the American Revolution.
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Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists
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First confirmed Denisovan skull piece found
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
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Drone reveals massive Stonehenge-like circular monument in Ireland
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