Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,000-year-old ‘service station.’ This ancient rest stop sits in Gloucestershire, near …
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed the discovery of 6,000 exoplanets, planets that exist outside our Solar System. Researchers say the search for these distant worlds will…
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Experts think the enormous fish probably died in a predator attack. The sawfish, which is guitar-shaped, hasn’t been seen in this region since the 1990s. Locals believed the species was…
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The ancient Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Before this tragic event, the city was home to more than 20,000 people.…
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Researchers at the Cyprus Institute (CyI) uncovered a male portrait hidden for centuries beneath Titian’s 1570 painting Ecce Homo (“Behold the Man”). This artwork depicts Jesus Christ before his crucifixion…
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Leonardo da Vinci famously experimented with the materials he used to prepare grounds and paint layers. A new study has identified a mixture of toxic pigments in the iconic painting…
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Thanks to advances in imaging and chemical analysis, researchers can now hunt for surprises in the paint of “The Night Watch” (1642). Recently, a team from scientific centers across Europe…
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Who was Christopher Columbus? Most people learned his name in school, and the first thing many think of is America. Columbus’s arrival in the Americas was one of the most…
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A 16th-century trading vessel was discovered by researchers using an underwater drone at a depth of 2,567 meters. Arnaud Choma, head of the underwater archaeology department at the French Ministry…
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The ancient city of Los Abuelos (Spanish for “ancestors”) sits deep in the jungle, about 21 kilometers from the archaeological site of Waka in the northern Petén department. The Guatemalan…
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Czech authorities announced that hikers in the Krkonoše Mountains made an extraordinary discovery. A group of tourists stumbled on a 15-pound hoard that included 598 gold coins, a silver wallet,…
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A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona and the National Institute of Archaeology in Morocco may have just rewritten history. Their recent discovery at the archaeological site of…
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Archaeologists uncovered a massive 3,000-year-old settlement during excavations at the Escaut Valley business park in Onnen. They believe the settlement served as an important community hub where large feasts and…
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Professor Joseph Wegner, an Egyptologist at the University of Pennsylvania who leads the excavations, says tombs of pharaohs are now found extremely rarely. Researchers are unsure which pharaoh is buried…
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An international team of researchers has uncovered the oldest evidence of human presence in the tropical forests of Africa. This discovery indicates that those regions were inhabited as far back…
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A Second Pharaoh’s Tomb Found Near Thutmose II — but Archaeologists Still Can’t Reach It
A joint Egyptian-British archaeological team led by Pearce Litherland of the University of Cambridge announced a rare find near Luxor: the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II of the 18th Dynasty.…
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The secret underground passages sketched in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have finally been found—hidden beneath Milan’s Sforza Castle. A team from the Polytechnic University of Milan, working with the Sforza…
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Archaeologists have uncovered a lavish private bath in Pompeii, buried almost 2,000 years ago beneath layers of volcanic rock and ash. The team studying the site in Italy’s Campania region…
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The skull long thought to be Cleopatra’s sister belonged to a boy from Italy or Sardinia
The Octagon, built at the end of the 1st century BC, was a monumental eight-sided mausoleum made of white marble, standing 13 meters tall. Keil examined the skull and concluded…
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Despite 50 years of excavations, archaeologists continue to uncover surprises about the Terracotta Army. Researchers discovered a richly adorned figure in the mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang in Shaanxi…
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7,000-Year-Old Clay ‘Alien’ Head Unearthed in Kuwait — First of Its Kind in the Persian Gulf
A 7,000-year-old discovery has surprised archaeologists — the little clay head looks like what many would call an ‘alien’. Researchers unearthed the tiny “extraterrestrial” head during excavations at the Bahra…
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While swimming in Poland’s Supraśl River, museum employee Szczepan Skibiński discovered a sword dating to the 9th or 10th century. This rare artifact is one of the few swords of…
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Researchers led by Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martinez, who has spent 20 years searching for Cleopatra’s burial site, have announced a significant discovery. The team believes the queen may have found…
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Scholars long believed the first alphabet was created by the ancient Egyptians. However, a new discovery challenges that idea and pushes the timeline for the earliest alphabetic writing back by…
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The city, discovered by chance in Mexico’s southeastern state of Campeche, has been named Valeriana after a nearby lagoon. Archaeologists uncovered pyramids, ballcourts, causeways linking different areas, and amphitheaters. Valeriana…
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The discovery by archaeologists from France and Saudi Arabia sheds light on the gradual transition from a nomadic lifestyle to urban living thousands of years ago. The ruins of a…
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Childhood works by William Blake (1757–1827) had long been hidden from researchers in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. The artist bequeathed the engravings to the library in…
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Secret 2,000-Year-Old Tomb Found Beneath Petra’s Treasury — One Skeleton Clutched a ‘Grail’ Cup
Researchers have uncovered a 2,000-year-old, previously unknown tomb under the rock-cut temple of Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan, containing the remains of 12 people and burial artifacts. They found it using…
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Farmer Mehmet Emin Sualp stumbled upon an ancient 84-square-meter mosaic floor while planting seedlings in his field in the village of Salkaya. The floor is unusually well preserved. The find…
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A new study finds the altar stone of the monument—a central bluestone weighing six tons—probably traveled more than 700 kilometers. For more than a century archaeologists have known that Stonehenge’s…
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The ruins of Viroconium are located in the English village of Wroxeter. Founded in the late 1st century AD, this city was the fourth largest in Roman Britain, with a…
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A 2,000-Year-Old Mummy and a Herbal Preservative Turn Up in the ‘Tomb of Cerberus’ Near Naples
About a year ago, builders laying a water pipeline in a field stumbled upon what has been dubbed the “Tomb of Cerberus.” The scientific community was taken aback by the…
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Researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences uncovered a long-lost altar inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site traditionally believed to be the place of Jesus’ burial and…
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of a 1,800-year-old ring bearing the image of the goddess of war and wisdom in an ancient quarry. The ornament, likely made…
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Researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) say they’re closing in on the room where the Last Supper took place more than 2,000 years ago. It is believed to be…
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Researchers accidentally discovered a rare artifact in the collections of the Carl von Ossietzky State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany. For many years, a papyrus containing Greek text from…
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While working in his garden in Coventry, England, a 55-year-old geography teacher stumbled upon a small rectangular stone. It was later revealed that this artifact is over 1,600 years old.…
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A team of researchers from the University of North Carolina Wilmington discovered an ancient river buried under desert sand that helped Egyptians build more than three dozen pyramids at Giza.…
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A team of archaeologists from the University of Córdoba (Spain) has uncovered ancient sherry preserved in liquid form inside a Roman tomb. The oldest wine in the world, discovered in…
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A team from the Archaeological Project of Cultural Landscapes Ukupé has uncovered a temple and theater that predate Machu Picchu by about 3,500 to 4,000 years. They were built long…
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Twenty-seven volumes by the Brothers Grimm have turned up in a Polish university library, and researchers say the books may have been moved there during post-war relocations of library collections.…
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The discovery is 15 kilometers from Naples, in Italy’s Campania region. Builders working on a children’s playground and recreation area were the first to stumble on the ruins of an…
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Researchers from the University of Alcalá and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have clarified a discovery first made in the 19th century. They confirmed that this pair of esparto grass…
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest example of woodworking, created nearly half a million years ago. This remarkable find provides clear evidence that Stone Age people began constructing…
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During excavations in the small town of Nordlingen in southern Germany, archaeologists uncovered an astonishing piece of ancient weaponry. An incredibly rare Bronze Age sword has left even experts in…
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For decades, people credited Christopher Columbus with “discovering” the Americas after his 1492 voyage. But in the 1960s, researchers uncovered a Viking settlement in North America. Located on Newfoundland, part…
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A team of scientists found a brand-new blood type in a 68-year-old woman from the French overseas region of Guadeloupe. They announced the finding at the International Society of Blood…
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The flower with “glass-like” petals was named Spiranthes hachijoensis, honoring the genus Spiranthes and Hachijo Island (Tokyo Prefecture), where researchers found it. The white-pink petals of this previously unknown orchid…
