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A glimpse of lost language

• Americas • Ancient Writing • Archaeological Sites Tags Lost Language • Blog • Chimú • Discoveries • El Brujo Archaeological Complex • Lambayeque • Lost Languages • Magdalena de Cao Viejo • Moche culture • Peru • Pescadora • preceramic • pyramids • Quechua • Quingnam • Sacred Texts • Señora de Cao

A glimpse of lost language

In the early 1600s in northern Peru, a curious Spaniard jotted down some notes on the back of a letter. Four hundred years later, archaeologists dug up and studied the paper, revealing what appear to be the first traces...

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Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images

• Africa • Ancient Explorers • BBC • Blog • Discoveries • Dr Sarah Parcak • infra-red images • Khemit • pyramids • satellite survey • Tanis • underground

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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Underground Pyramid-shaped Structure Found in Italy

• apsidal structures • Blog • bucchero • cave • cavitá • Claudio Bizzarri • Etruscan pyramids • hypogeum • Italy • labyrinth • Orvieto • Prof. David B. George • pyramids • Roman • St. Anselm College • terra cotta • tuff • tunnels • Umbria • volcanic tuff

Underground Pyramid-shaped Structure Found in Italy

Archaeologists are scratching their heads about an underground pyramid-shaped structure they have been excavating beneath the historic medieval town of Orvieto in Italy...

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