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French researchers believe they found the remains of famed French Renaissance poet Joachim du Bellay, who died in 1560. The ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNA Child's Skull That Has Long Confounded Archaeologists Might Be a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid, Study Suggests
In 1931, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old remains of a child, among other individuals, in Skhūl Cave on ...
The Maya ruler in question was Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of Caracol, an important Maya city that ruled the southern part ...
Researchers led by Tohoku University’s Motoyuki Sato used GPR—along with a method known as electrical resistivity tomography ...
A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Find 300-Year-Old Shipwreck in What Used to Be ‘One of the Baddest Pirate Lairs on Earth’
Pirates attacked the Portuguese warship, named the "Nossa Senhora do Cabo," and made off with many of the treasures the ship ...
The Roman Empire built 73 miles of wall to fortify its northern border in Great Britain. In AD 122, the Emperor Hadrian ...
About a foot under the tombstone, crews discovered the remains of a coffin holding a full skeleton. Aleksandra Pudlo from the ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNArchaeologists Discover Site Where George Washington Stopped a Friendly Fire Incident by Blocking Muskets With His Sword
In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish ...
British archaeologists recently helped uncover multistory buildings from the ancient Egyptian city Imet in the Nile Delta, ...
If you have ever thought your piece of Douglas County property had an interesting historical story to tell, there’s now a ...
The Mayan city of Caracol has been researched for decades, but archaeologists only recently found a tomb of one of the city's ...
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