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Boys, Beers & Betting: Two-Up Is Australia’s Age-Old ANZAC Day Tradition
Every April 25th, crowds of hundreds storm to their nearest pub to pay respects to the fallen ANZACs and indulge in a game of Two-Up.
A Prehistoric Tool Discovery May Have Just Rewritten Human History
New research suggests a sudden "revolution" in human history that allowed our species to thrive and spread was a longer and more complex process.
There Are ‘Lost Civilizations’ Under the Sea. Scientists Want to Find Them Before It’s Too Late.
“We know almost nothing” about ancient peoples whose lands were submerged by rising seas, scientists say, and we must investigate before it's impossible.
3 Students Reveal Secrets of 2000-Year-Old Scroll In Breakthrough Discovery
A PhD student, a robotics student, and a 21-year-old CompSci student used AI to reveal text on an ancient scroll badly damaged by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Scientists Discover Stunning Evidence of Multiple Lost Prehistoric Societies
Researchers analyzed more than 100 pieces of prehistoric jewelry and found that the ancient past was more complex than we imagined.
Archaeologists Keep Finding Strange Ancient Objects With a Mysterious Purpose
Amateur archaeologists unearthed the latest example of a mysterious Roman "dodecahedron," objects which have baffled historians for centuries.
Archaeologists Have Discovered Massive Lost Cities In the Amazon Jungle
Researchers report the discovery of 15 sites in the Amazon containing 6,000 structures, ancient roads, ceremonial complexes and more.
Elephant-Sized Apes That Once Roamed the Land Mysteriously Vanished. Now, Scientists Have an Answer.
The sudden extinction of giant apes is an "enigma in paleontology," one scientist said, but new research proposes an answer to why they disappeared.
Archaeologists Keep Finding Evidence of a Mysterious Ancient Cult In Europe
The discovery of a gilded belt buckle depicting a snake eating a frog was thought to be unique. However, similar evidence is popping up across Europe.
Scientists Just Made a 1.75 Billion-Year-Old Discovery About the Origin of Life
Newly-discovered 1.75 billion-year-old bacteria fossils shed new light on the Great Oxygenation Event, which led to the emergence of complex life.
Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn't What We Thought, Study Reveals
The Mongolian Arc, an under-studied section of the Great Wall in modern-day Mongolia, wasn't a defensive structure. Its true nature remains enigmatic.
Ancient Inscribed Bricks Contain Evidence of Mysterious Magnetic 'Anomaly,' Scientists Find
Scientists analyzing ancient Mesopotamian bricks have discovered traces of the Levantine Iron Age geomagnetic anomaly that shed light on its strength.