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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Gobekli Tepe: The Oldest Temple on Earth?
Image: © Berthold Steinhilber Eleven thousand years ago, men with no modern tools or other help set to work building a set of megaliths in Southeastern...
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How Our Seafaring Ancestors Made Specialized Tools for Marine Hunting
Photo: University of Oregon Back in the days of the Pleistocene era, our ancestors were not just hunting mammoths and other large game; evidence shows they...
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11,500 Year Old Ice Age Child Found in Prehistoric Alaskan Home
Photo: courtesy of Ben PotterResearchers and scientists working on excavation at the Upward Sun River site in Alaska. An archaeological dig in Alaska has resulted in...
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