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Britain’s Atlantis: Scientific study beneath North Sea could revolutionise how we see the past

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Archaeologists are searching for the lost tribes of prehistoric Britain – at the bottom of the North Sea. In a unique and ground-breaking operation, scientists plan to search for evidence of Stone Age human activity on Britain’s very own ‘Atlantis’ – a vast prehistoric land, once located between England and southern Scandinavia, which was engulfed […]

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Cracking the Maya Code: Timeline of Decipherment

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When the Spanish conquered the Maya empire in the 16th century, they forced their new subjects to convert to Christianity and speak and write in Spanish. But long before the Maya used the Roman alphabet, they had created their own rich and elegant script featuring more than 800 hieroglyphs. Sadly, the glyphs’ meanings were lost […]

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BBC News: Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing

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BBC News: Breakthrough in world’s oldest undeciphered writing

This from an article written by the BBC By Sean Coughlan on 25 October 2012. Let’s revisit this… The world’s oldest undeciphered writing system...

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Scottish team to digitally scan ancient Indian landmark

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Scottish team to digitally scan ancient Indian landmark

One of India’s most historic landmarks is to be digitally recorded by a group of Scottish experts in an effort to preserve its every detail. The team, from Glasgow School of Art and Historic Scotland...

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Lost city found off Indian coast

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Lost city found off Indian coast

Back in April 2002, an expedition team jointly sponsored by Great Britain’s Scientific Exploration Society (SES) and India’s National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) made the discovery of a submerged complex...

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