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A recent imaging scan hints at hidden chambers that could offer insights into questions surrounding the life and death of the boy pharaoh and his place in Egyptian history ...

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Giant Siberian unicorn may have existed at the same time as humans, fossil find hints

Our ancestors could have come face to face with the mammoth-sized rhino in Kazakhstan....

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Discovery of Navy Shipwreck Solves 95-Year-Old Mystery

The U.S.S. Conestoga, a Navy tugboat that disappeared in 1921, has been found in shark-infested waters about 30 miles west of San Francisco....

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Science shed new light on the life and death of medieval king Erik

The saint's legend speaks of a king who died a dramatic death in battle outside the church in Uppsala, Sweden, where he had just celebrated mass. But what can modern science tell us about his remains? A research project now reveal...

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Sacred temple from 16th century that was hidden emerges from lake due to severe drought

The severe lack of rain in recent months has meant that the waters of the Benito Juarez Dam are forty per cent lower than their normal level ...

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What lies beneath: Britain's eerie secret 'Atlantis towns' hidden from view by icy water

There are long-lost secrets of towns and villages that were literally flooded to make way for reservoirs in the early to mid 20th century ...

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Why Did Ancient Europeans Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?

Genetic analysis shows some of Europe's earliest inhabitants mysteriously vanished toward the end of the last ice age and were largely replaced by others....

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'Space Archaeologists' Show Spike in Looting at Egypt's Ancient Sites

Scientists used satellite images to monitor pyramids, tombs and buried cities from 2002 to 2013...

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Beaten-Up Dinosaur Lived Through Intense Pain

A large, meat-eating dinosaur endured severe pain for months and possibly years after a violent encounter....

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Mysterious Icon Found at Bethlehem Church

The centuries-old icon, found under layers of plaster, is made of brass, silver, shells and stones....

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What was Earth's first animal? New study finally offers an answer

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago. ...

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The ugliest fossil reptiles who roamed China

Long before the dinosaurs, hefty herbivores called pareiasaurs ruled Earth. Now, for the first time, a detailed investigation of all Chinese specimens of these creatures -- often described as the 'ugliest fossil reptiles' -- has b...

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Bones found at prison may belong to real-life Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Archaeologists discovery could be remains of Martha Brown, whose public hanging was watched by Thomas Hardy. Archaeologists may have unearthed the remains of a woman whose execution had a lasting impact on the writer ...

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500 million-year-old fossils show how extinct organisms attacked their prey

Most fossils preserve the physical remains of organisms and their structure; however, geologists and paleobiologists recently found fossils that show the behaviors of predators preserved as traces in ancient sediments. Thus, fossi...

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Neanderthal-Human Sex Happened Earlier

A Neanderthal woman from Siberia with human DNA may suggest we should no longer consider Neanderthals separate from the human race....

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Fossils Shed New Light on Human and Gorilla Split

The finding could help resolve a controversy over the continent where the ape and human lineages first evolved, according to researchers ...

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Ancient Footprints Discovered in Arizona

The 2,500-year-old footprints of a family strolling through a field are evidence of early agriculture...

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The aftermath of 1492: Study shows how Native American depopulation impacted ecology

Among the Pueblo Indians of northern New Mexico, disease didn't break out until nearly a century after their first contact with Europeans, following the establishment of mission churches in the seventeenth century, a team of resea...

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Massive Mississippi Floods May Have Wiped Out Ancient Civilization

Massive floods in the Mississippi River valley may have wiped out an ancient civilization, according to a new study. Cahokia were the largest prehistoric settlement in the Americas north of Mexico until the year 1200 AD, when the...

Prehistoric Bone-Devouring Worms Fed on Carcasses of Plesiosaurs

Osedax worms, also known as bone worms, zombie worms, or bone-eating worms, were first discovered on a whale carcass in 2002. There are more than 10 species that can be found in oceans across the globe at depths of up to 4 km. ...