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Submerged man-made structures 9,500 years old – Near Dwaraka

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Submerged man-made structures 9,500 years old – Near Dwaraka

Marine scientists in India say an archaeological site off India’s western coast may be up to 9,000 years old. Lets revisit the original article posted by the BBC on January 16th, 2002...

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Lost Mayan cities discovered in Mexican jungle

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Lost Mayan cities discovered in Mexican jungle

In the 1970s, an American explorer named Eric Von Euw explored a forest at the base of the Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula near the border of Guatemala called the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve...

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Cambodia: Behind the discovery of a new Khmer city

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Cambodia: Behind the discovery of a new Khmer city

A jungle-clad royal city, once the subject of local legend and with links to Angkor Wat, was recently identified to much excitement in Cambodia. Stéphane de Greef tells us about his part in mapping the ruins...

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Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

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Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

The BBC Reports–Seventeen lost pyramids are among the buildings identified in a new satellite survey of Egypt. More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements were also revealed by looking at infra-red images...

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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear

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Myth of pristine Amazon rainforest busted as old cities reappear

Dreamscape: the Amazon was once lined with fields and plazas (Image: Mario Tama/Getty) The first Europeans to penetrate the Amazon rainforests reported cities, roads and fertile fields...

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