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Climate change and the collapse of Angkor Wat

Drill core samples give insight to the pre-industrial city's downfall

Lost Viking trade route revealed by melting ice

1,000-year-old horseshoes, sleds, and tools are emerging from a shrinking ice patch in Norway, telling the story of the rise and fall of a mountain pass and the people who traveled along it.

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Assyrian Treasures in Iraq Site Blown Up By ISIS

German archaeologists have explored an ancient palace in Iraq that they could only access after the area was blown up by the Islamic State...

Origin of the first known interstellar object ‘Oumuamua

'Oumuamua, the first object known to have come from beyond the solar system, might have gotten its oblong shape when a planet was shredded by a faraway star.

Oldest ever piece of string was made by Neanderthals 50,000 years ago

In a new twist on Neandertals’ Stone Age accomplishments, our close evolutionary relatives wound bark fibers into strings that could have been used to...

3,300-Year-Old Figurine Of Canaanite God Unearthed in Israel

A rare figurine of the Canaanite god Baal and a bronze calf statue are among the fascinating finds which Macquarie University archaeologists have uncovered in Israel.

Evidence of 10,000-Year-Old Terraforming Found in the Amazon Rainforest

Findings from Bolivia show plants were domesticated in Amazon rainforest shortly after last ice age. As early as 10,000 years ago, an ancient society transformed the Amazonian rainforest creating as many as 4,700 forest islands.

Child’s shattered skull may be oldest Homo erectus fossil on Earth

The 2-million-year-old skull fragment was mixed among fossils of two other extinct human species in Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind'

Elaborately decorated eggs predate Easter by thousands of years

The intact eggs were all discovered in a burial site known as the Isis Tomb in Vulci, Italy, that was uncovered in 1839 by Napoleon Bonaparte’s brother, Prince Lucien. The tomb dates to about 600 B.C.E. and was filled with other luxury items
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