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Submerged Greek Village Discovered off the Coast of Greece

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A sunken Bronze Age village dating to perhaps 2,500 B.C. has been discovered by researchers diving off the coast of Greece. A diver picks through the ruins of the city at Lambayanna beach. University of Geneva A team from the University of Geneva was undergoing diving training in 2014 at Lambayanna beach in Kiladha Bay, […]

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32 Victims of Human Sacrifice at Cahokia Were Locals, Not ‘Foreign’ Captives, Study Finds

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32 Victims of Human Sacrifice at Cahokia Were Locals, Not ‘Foreign’ Captives, Study Finds

The practice of human sacrifice in America’s largest prehistoric city was more subtle and complex than experts once thought, new research suggests. Recent studies into the remains of sacrificial victims at the ancient city of Cahokia reveal that those who were killed were not captives taken from outlying regions, as many archaeologists had believed. An […]

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Great Blue Hole off Belize yields new clues to fall of Mayan civilisation

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Research supports theory that drought and climate conditions reduced Mayans from a regional power to survivors abandoning cities to virtual extinction. A massive underwater sinkhole surrounded by reefs, caves and sharks has provided archaeologists with clues in the mystery of the fall of the Mayan civilization, according to new research. Scientists from Rice University and […]

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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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French archaeology students find 560,000-year-old tooth

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French archaeology students find 560,000-year-old tooth

Two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in south-western France, a discovery praised by archaeologists as the oldest human body part ever discovered...

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