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Luxor discovery: 'Ancient Egypt's Pompeii' found as archaeologists uncover 3,400-year-old 'lost golden city'

Experts describe the site as "ancient Egypt's Pompeii" due to how well it has been preserved - despite lying unseen for centuries.

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This Wooden Sculpture Is Twice as Old as Stonehenge and the Pyramids

New findings about the 12,500-year-old Shigir Idol have major implications for the study of prehistory

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Gold prospectors first discovered the so-called Shigir Idol at the bottom of a peat bog in Russia’s Ural mountain range in 1890. The unique object—a nine-foot-tall totem pole composed of ten wooden fragments carved with expressive faces, eyes and limbs and decorated with geometric patterns—represents the oldest known surviving work of wooden ritual art in the world.

For comparison, as far as wooden artifacts go, the oldest known boat "The Pesse canoe" was constructed during the early mesolithic period between 8040 BC and 7510 BC. It is now in the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands.

 

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Bronze Age treasure found in Swedish forest by mapmaker

A man stumbled on ancient jewellery while surveying a forest for his orienteering club.

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Crowland WWII Buffalo LVT dug up after 74 years underground

The craft is in "fantastic" condition despite its subterranean stay says the man behind the dig.

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Crowland WWII tank recovered after 74 years underground​

 

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Cancer rates in Medieval Britain were 10 times worse than thought

ARCHAEOLOGISTS examining the skeletal remains of Medieval-era Britons have found between nine and 15 percent of the population had cancer at the time of their death.

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New research at the University of Cambridge has challenged the previously held belief less than one percent of the population had cancer. Until now, the archaeological record of cancer rates in medieval Britain has been limited by the available technology. But the first study to combine CT scans and x-rays has exposed worrying levels of malignant cancer among pre-industrial populations.

 

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Dartmouth: WW1 submarine wreck given protection

Historic England says the contents of a submarine used in World War One must remain in place.

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A region beneath the rough waters of the North Sea, known as Doggerland, holds archaeological clues to the past. Watch how researchers are using advances in mapping and leads from dredging sites to piece together the history of this vanished landscape.

 

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Complete DNA from a 35,000 years old woman sequenced

Skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived in today's Romania 35,000 years ago..Photograph: Mattias Jakobsson For the first time, researchers have

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For the first time, researchers have successfully sequenced the entire genome from the skull of Peştera Muierii 1, a woman who lived in today’s Romania 35,000 years ago. Her high genetic diversity shows that the out of Africa migration was not the great bottleneck in human development but rather this occurred during and after the most recent Ice Age. This is the finding of a new study led by Mattias Jakobsson at Uppsala University.

 

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The Leitha (Lajta) monitor.

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Giant figure etched into English hillside could be 1,000-year-old portrait of a naked god

A giant carved into an English hill could be a pagan reaction to Christian domination, but scientists think it more likely the giant received his most flattering modification in recent years.

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The Cerne Abbas Giant has been likened to many diverse figures from Hercules to Oliver Cromwell.

 

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Giant figure etched into English hillside could be 1,000-year-old portrait of a naked god

A giant carved into an English hill could be a pagan reaction to Christian domination, but scientists think it more likely the giant received his most flattering modification in recent years.

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The Cerne Abbas Giant has been likened to many diverse figures from Hercules to Oliver Cromwell.

Typical middleagers, drawing knobs on anything they can find!

 

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Typical middleagers, drawing knobs on anything they can find!

 

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Pyramid-shaped mound holding 30 corpses may be world's oldest war monument

A huge burial mound holding the corpses of at least 30 warriors in Syria could be the oldest war memorial ever discovered, dating back at least 4,300 years at the now submerged site of Tell Banat.

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The memorial is the first example of a particular type of monument described in ancient inscriptions from Mesopotamia in which the bodies of either enemies or local battle dead are piled up to form a highly organized structure.

This discovery also shows "that ancient people honored those killed in battle, just as we do," Anne Porter, a professor of ancient Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto, said in a statement. "We do not know whether they were the victors or the losers of that battle. We do know that they [the people from Tell Banat] took the bodies of the dead from some other place, perhaps long after the event, and interred them in a huge mound that was visible for miles around," Porter said in the statement.

 

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Two Viking relatives reunited in Denmark after 1,000 years

Separated for 1,000 years, two Viking warriors from the same family were reunited on Wednesday at Denmark's National Museum, as DNA analysis helps shed light on the Vikings' movements across Europe.

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One of the Vikings died in England in his 20s in the 11th century, from injuries to the head. He was buried in a mass grave in Oxford.
The other died in Denmark in his 50s, his skeleton bearing traces of blows that suggest he took part in battles.

DNA mapping of skeletons from the Viking era—from the eighth to the 12th century—enabled archaeologists to determine by chance that the two were related.

 

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Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery

Chinese researchers unveil an ancient skull that could belong to a completely new species of human.

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Covid man

 

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This 5,000-year-old man had the earliest known strain of plague

The oldest strain of Yersinia pestis -- the bacteria behind the plague that caused the Black Death, which may have killed as much as half of Europe's population in the 1300s -- has been found in the remains of a 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer. A genetic analysis reveals that this ancient strain...

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Archaeologists baffled by Viking discovery in UK

ARCHAEOLOGISTS are baffled by a set of Viking-age stones discovered in the UK that appear to be "earlier than similar monuments in Norway".

www.express.co.uk

Does this mean the UK can annex Norway Putin style

 

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9th Century Anglo Saxon home discovered by archaeologists | ITV News

The Anchor Church Caves near Foremark in South Derbyshire had previously been thought of as 18th Century. | ITV National News

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Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets

The land mass that linked Britain to continental Europe was rich in early human life until it flooded

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Restoration work wipes smile off the face of Dutch vegetable seller

Painting reclaims former glory as English Heritage rights the wrongs of 19th-century additions

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