78,000-year-old footprints from Neanderthal man, child and toddler discovered on beach in Portugal
A view of the Neanderthal trackway found on the northern cliff of Monte Clérigo beach in Portugal, with 2 research study authors for scale. (Image credit: Carlos Neto de Carvalho(…
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300,000-Year-Old Wooden Tools Discovered in China
Archaeologists have actually discovered an assemblage of 35 wood tools– digging sticks and little, total, hand-held pointed tools– at the Early Paleolithic website of Gantangqing in southwestern China. This discovery…
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125,000-year-old ‘fat factory’ run by Neanderthals discovered in Germany
Neanderthals, the closest extinct relative of contemporary people, drawn out grease and bone marrow from animal bones 125,000 years earlier in what is now Germany. (Image credit: imageBROKER.com by means…
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Archaeologists Find 3,500-Year-Old Traces of Rice in Guam
Rice was a staple crop in the ancestral Austronesian areas of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia, however it was unidentified in any of the Pacific Islands at the time of…
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40,000-year-old mammoth tusk boomerang is oldest in Europe — and possibly the world
2 views of a boomerang constructed out of massive ivory that was found in Obłazowa Cave in Poland. (Image credit: Talamo et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0) An uncommon…
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1,000-year-old Viking Age hoard has a pendant that may be a cross or Thor’s hammer
A newly found Viking Age stockpile in Germany has about 200 artifacts, consisting of a pendant that might be a cross or an incomplete Thor’s hammer. (Image credit: © ALSH…
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2,800-year-old royal tomb discovered near King Midas’ home in Turkey
Entryway to the Midas Mound at Gordion in Turkey. (Image credit: Alamy) Archaeologists have actually found an eighth-century-B.C. royal burial place of a relative of King Midas in the ancient…
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20,000-Year-Old Whale Bone Tools Found in Spain
Archaeologists have actually taken a look at a big sample of worked bone items from 26 Paleolithic cavern and rockshelter websites in the Cantabrian area of Spain and southwestern France….
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Ram in the Thicket: A 4,500-year-old gold statue from the royal cemetery at Ur
One of 2 “ram in the thicket” statuettes found in the ancient city of Ur in contemporary Iraq (Image credit: Getty Images) Call: Ram in the Thicket What it is:…
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2,300-year-old gold ring found in Israel was likely buried by a betrothed girl
The 2,300-year-old gold ring set with a red gems was discovered in the City of David, a historical site in Israel. (Image credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David) Archaeologists in…
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