Was King Tut Buried in a Rush?
Photo: Jean-Pierre Dalbera King Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled more than 3,000 years ago. He died at a very young age, and his tomb...
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Incredible Animal Rock Art Discovered in Tibet
Photo: Bradshaw Foundation Lake Namtso, one of two holy lakes in Tibet, forms the centre of the valley floor and is surrounded by the Nyanchen Tanglha...
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Nebra Sky Disk: The Oldest Known Realistic Depiction of the Heavens
Photo: Dbachmann In 1990, two treasure hunters, wandering on Mittelberg Hill, near Nebra, Germany, discovered a mysterious disc. Buried about 3,500 years ago, the disc was...
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Mummies’ False Toes May Be World’s First Prostheses
Photo: The University of Manchester When we think about Ancient Egypt, we might well believe that injuries such as losing a big toe would cripple a...
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The Chauvet Cave Paintings: The Oldest Known Cave Art on Earth
Photo: HTOFour aurochs (left), two rhinoceroses (below) and a panel of four horses (extreme right) When the Chauvet Cave was discovered in 1994, speleologists Jean-Marie Chauvet,...
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Earliest Traces of Humans in the Americas Found in a Submerged Cave
Photo: courtesy Daniel Riordan-Araujo Diving in the pitch black with just their flashlights to light the way, a team of three divers from PET (Projecto Espeleológico...
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The Parthenon: The Ancient Greek Temple Atop Athens’ Acropolis
Photo: linz_ellinas The Parthenon is one of the most recognizable buildings of Ancient Greece still with us today. A symbol of beauty and purity, its ruined...
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Who Built the Ancient Bolivian Ruins of Tiwanaku?
Photo: Theodore Scott Tiwanaku was the capital city of the most powerful pre-Hispanic empire and one of the great civilizations of the ancient Americas. Abandoned for...
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Artifacts Discovered in Texas Predate Earliest Known North Americans by 2,500 Years
Photo: Michael R. Waters For decades scientists and archaeologists believed that North America was populated by people who came from Asia across the Bering Land Bridge....
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The Best Preserved Mummy Ever Discovered
Photo: Chibart Many of us have grown up learning about incredible mummies. But, what if we could see a mummy that didn’t look, well, so dried...
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