20,000-year-old ‘human’ fossils from Japan aren’t what we thought
A stock picture of a bear fossil. (Image credit: Fabio Di Natale by means of Alamy Stock Photo) The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of “Ushikawa Man,” believed to be a few…
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1,000-Year-Old Hoard of Silver Coins Unearthed in UK
Archaeologists from the Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) have actually found a stockpile of 321 mint-condition silver coins (319 complete cents plus 2 cut halfpence) dating to the 11th century CE…
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2,000-year-old RSVP: A birthday invitation from the Roman frontier that has the earliest known Latin written by a woman
A birthday invite penned on a thin wood tablet was discovered at the Roman fort of Vindolanda in the U.K. (Image credit: The Print Collector/ Alamy Stock Photo ) Call:…
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40-year-old ‘mega’ iceberg — the largest on Earth — is on the move after being trapped in a giant vortex for months
A23a is a massive iceberg with an area more than 3 times higher than New York City. ( Image credit: Samuel J Cole/Getty Images ) The world’s biggest iceberg is…
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4,000-year-old bones reveal ‘unprecedented’ violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain
Skull bones from the historical site of Charterhouse Warren in the U.K. reveal proof of deadly injuries 4,000 years back. (Image credit: Schulting et al., Antiquity ) More than 4,000…
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NASA solves 44-year-old mystery of why Jupiter’s Io is so volcanically active
Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our planetary system. The factor for this activity has actually left astronomers scratching their heads. (Image credit: Image information: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/…
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1,800-year-old silver amulet could rewrite history of Christianity in the early Roman Empire
A little piece of silver foil was practically unrolled utilizing CT scanning to expose an 18-line Christian engraving in Latin dated to the 3rd century. (Image credit: © Leibniz Institute…
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35,000-year-old ‘tortoise shell’ carving may be Holy Land’s oldest evidence of ritual behavior
The grooves intentionally sculpted into the granite stone more than 35,000 years earlier have actually been compared to the pattern on a tortoise shell. (Image credit: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities…
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Traces of 10,000-Year-Old Rice Beer Found in China
The Shangshan culture in ancient China’s Lower Yangzi area is main to comprehending the origins of rice domestication and early alcohol fermentation. To resolve these problems, scientists analyzed artifacts from…
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Rock found by a 6-year-old on a beach is actually a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal ax
Ben is now 9 years of ages and a real fan of archaeology. (Image credit: Emma Witten) 3 years earlier, a then-6-year-old kid called Ben found an unusual rock on…
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