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Archaeologists Used Lasers to Reveal Hundreds of Ancient Structures Hidden Beneath the Amazon Rainforest
A new LiDAR study found 396 previously unknown earthworks linked to the ancient Aquiry civilization.
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Scientists Found a Fossilized Food Chain From 100 Million Years Ago
Researchers say the Queensland fossil preserves evidence of a pterosaur eaten by an ichthyosaur later attacked by a larger predator.
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Archaeologists May Have Identified the Earliest Known Scientist in the Americas
A wall at the Maya city of Xultun appears to preserve the name of Sak Tahn Waax alongside astronomical and calendar calculations.
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Andrea Pucci/Getty Images Archaeologists Reconstruct the Face of a Man Killed in Mount Vesuvius Eruption
Researchers used skeletal remains and AI to imagine what one victim of Mount Vesuvius may have looked like.
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Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities وزارة السياحة والآثار What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt
Nobody had ever found anything like it before, and archaeologists are only beginning to understand what they’re dealing with.
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Print Collector/Contributor/Getty Images Researchers Looked Inside Egyptian Mummies Without Unwrapping Them. Here’s What They Found.
They can see so deeply that they can identify diseases and even study mummification techniques, all without physically opening the remains.
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Dr. Michael Eisenberg, University of Haifa The ‘Sarcastic’ Message Archaeologists Found Carved Into This 2,100-Year-Old Bullet Is Pretty Hilarious
Somebody just had to get the last word before the violence started.
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PATSTOCK/GETTY IMAGES What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt
Experts say claims about a buried second Sphinx and an underground “megastructure” at Giza remain unproven.
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DEA Picture Library/Contributor/Getty Images What Archaeologists Found Written on Those 43,000 Egyptian Notes and Receipts
Archaeologists have uncovered more than 43,000 ostraca, aka pottery shards and limestone flakes used for writing, at the Athribis site in Upper Egypt.
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Matt Champlin/Getty Images Poisoned Weapons Are Way Older Than We Thought
A new study revealed that poison arrows were around tens of thousands of years earlier than scientists previously believed.
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Jason Edwards/Getty Images Fossils Discovered in Morocco Could Reveal Humanity’s True Origins
There’s still a lot to learn about where we came from, but with discoveries like this, we are one giant step closer to completing the puzzle.
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