Norwegian family finds Viking-era relics while searching for a lost gold earring in their garden
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Archaeologists reveal largest palaeolithic cave art site in Eastern Iberia
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Metal detectorist makes Norway's ‘gold find of century’ – cache comprised nine gold medallions and gold pearls that once formed an opulent necklace, as well as three gold rings
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Archeologists in Norway found an arrow that was likely trapped in ice for 4,000 years
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Archaeologists in Türkiye have identified massive structures below a Roman-era castle
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Researchers have decoded more than half of the characters in the so-called Kushan script by comparing them with inscriptions in a known ancient language called Bactrian
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Ocomtún: A long-lost Maya city that was just discovered
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering
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Medieval gaming piece in soapstone with runic inscription discovered in Trondheim, Norway
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Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn
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Cosmic rays reveal 'hidden' thirty-foot-long corridor in Egypt's Great Pyramid
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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Archaeologists with the Nordjyske Museer in Denmark have found the remains of a large, thousand-year-old homestead, which they believe may have been a Viking hall
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Viking-era sword hilt found near grave of 'Gausel Queen' by amateur detectives – only twenty similar swords of this type have been found in Norway
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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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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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