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Child's Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery
  • 12/01/2021 13:14

Child's Bones Buried 40,000 Years Ago Solve a Longstanding Neanderthal Mystery

PETER DOCKRILL

We don't know whether it was a boy or a girl. But this ancient child, a Neanderthal, only made it to about two years of age.

  • 1871
Spooning skeletons: Who were these 3,000-year-old 'Romeo and Juliet'?
  • 04/01/2021 20:41

Spooning skeletons: Who were these 3,000-year-old 'Romeo and Juliet'?

More than 3,000 years ago, a couple at the biblical site of Bethsaida, in Israel, was buried side by side in a spooning position, with the male's arm over the female's body, and the archaeologists who discovered the remains are now calling the couple "Romeo and Juliet."

  • 2055
Hundreds of graves reveal Spanish town’s secret Muslim history
  • 30/12/2020 14:15

Hundreds of graves reveal Spanish town’s secret Muslim history

An archaeological site in northeast Spain holds one of the oldest-known Muslim cemeteries in the country, with the discovery of 433 graves, some dating back to the first 100 years of the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula.

  • 1931
Lost artifact from Great Pyramid was just found in a cigar tin in Scotland
  • 29/12/2020 13:05

Lost artifact from Great Pyramid was just found in a cigar tin in Scotland

Only three items were ever recovered from inside the pyramid

  • 1862
Mummified baboons may identify lost land of Punt, ancient Egypt's trading partner
  • 25/12/2020 10:01

Mummified baboons may identify lost land of Punt, ancient Egypt's trading partner

Baboons illuminate an ancient network of trade.

  • 1956
3,800-year-old baby in a jar unearthed in Israel
  • 24/12/2020 16:33

3,800-year-old baby in a jar unearthed in Israel

It's a mystery why the baby was buried in a jar.

  • 1900
Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision
  • 14/12/2020 12:23

Roman-era Egyptian child mummy scanned with laser-like precision

Highly focused X-ray beams targeted small objects inside the mummy case.

  • 1623
Newfound corpses at Pompeii were a master and servant who died together
  • 07/12/2020 11:15

Newfound corpses at Pompeii were a master and servant who died together

Over 150 years after the first Pompeii victims were found, two more have been discovered.

  • 1883
Mushroom hunter unearths gorgeous Bronze Age sword
  • 03/12/2020 08:58

Mushroom hunter unearths gorgeous Bronze Age sword

A man searching for mushrooms in a forest in the Czech Republic found much more than he was looking for when he uncovered an ancient sword and bronze axe, both thought to date from around 3,300 years ago.

  • 1716
Archaeologists finally peer inside Egyptian mummies first found in 1615
  • 25/11/2020 15:09

Archaeologists finally peer inside Egyptian mummies first found in 1615

The female mummies wore many necklaces, CT scans showed.

  • 1773