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A Strange Case of Dancing Mania Struck Germany Six Centuries Ago Today 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 May 2021 8 2170
Ancient Civilizations of the Americas 6 wnylib May 2021 May 2021 6 2117
Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery 6 Warpy Jun 2021 Jul 2021 11 2185
The secret lives of Neanderthal children 6 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 67 3929
UK court overturns govt go-ahead for Stonehenge road tunnel 6 Judi Lynn Jul 2021 Aug 2021 19 2226
8-foot-tall pagan idol unearthed in Irish bog 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2021 Sep 2021 53 3642
One of the largest-known Norse longhouses discovered near Viking ship burial 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2021 Jan 2022 9 1902
Mysterious lightning phenomenon recorded in ancient medieval text 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2022 Apr 2022 9 1661
3,000 year old excuses for missing work: (Egyptian ostracon) 6 sl8 Apr 2022 Apr 2022 6 2045
An Urartian fortress was discovered at an altitude of 3,300 meters in eastern Turkey 6 Judi Lynn Jul 2022 Jul 2022 7 1834
Oldest human-made structure in the Americas is older than the Egyptian pyramids 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 13 1837
The last person who touched this three-bladed arrowhead was a Viking 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2022 Aug 2022 17 1820
Human Skin Didn't Always Fear The Sun, Not Until A Huge Change 10,000 Years Ago 6 Warpy Sep 2022 Sep 2022 11 2509
Russian asylum seekers who took a boat to Alaska are Indigenous Siberians. 6 elleng Oct 2022 Oct 2022 12 1918
Traces of mysteriously disappeared prehistoric people have been found in Altai 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2023 Jan 2023 18 2654
Flowery Funerals? The Controversial Neanderthal Found In An Iraqi Cave 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2023 Feb 2023 11 1864
Hiker Accidentally Discovers Ancient Roman Shrine To Mountain Gods In The Alps 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2023 Mar 2023 33 3272
Newly Discovered Rock Art Panels Depict How Ancient Ancestors Envisioned Creation and Adapted to Cha 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 2283
Amazing new archaeological wonders unearthed near Stonehenge 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 56 4030
100,000 Soldiers: A Geological Oddity Not Seen Anywhere Else In The World 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2023 Jun 2023 12 2148
World's Oldest Stone Tools Were Made By Ape-Like Hominid 3.3 Million Years Ago 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 15 2185
THE PREHISTORIC WEAPONS MADE FROM CRYSTAL 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 12 1627
Ancient DNA reveals the living descendants of enslaved people through 23andMe 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 34 5444
Huge Ancient Sarayini Underground City Is Twice As Large As Previously Thought 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2023 Aug 2023 13 2152
LOS GUACHIMONTONES 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2023 Sep 2023 9 1520
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of oldest wooden structure--See Date!! 6 cally Sep 2023 Sep 2023 14 7729
Greeks Are Descendants of the Mycenaeans, DNA Study Confirms 6 Judi Lynn Nov 2023 Dec 2023 7 1678
Summary: Researchers argue those with dyslexia are specialized to explore the unknown. This explorative bias has 6 applegrove Dec 2023 Dec 2023 21 2504
A Monumental Prehistoric Discovery In Siberia Rewrites Human History, Scientists Say 6 Jilly_in_VA Dec 2023 Dec 2023 28 2468
Surprising find proves rainy British city was once the centre of the Roman Empire 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 43 2814

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Ted Talk: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe? 6 Ichingcarpenter Nov 2015 Oct 2020 3 3191
'10-foot-tall people' unearthed by archaeologists in Nevada cave 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 23 2998
Tourists stumbled across dead body on mountain that turned out to be 5,300-year-old man 6 Judi Lynn Mar 2024 Mar 2024 32 3144
The odd world distribution of ancient Haplogroup X Mitochondrial DNA 6 Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 Sep 2019 10 10442
Stunning lost city perches at very top of giant rock - baffling archaeologists 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2024 Apr 2024 21 2513
The Day Silbury Hill Collapsed (Youtube video) 6 sl8 May 2024 May 2024 3 1826
Never-before-seen alphabet of lost civilisation unearthed in Spain 6 Judi Lynn Jun 2024 Jun 2024 34 2022
Clovis people used Great Lakes camp annually about 13,000 years ago, researchers confirm 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 19 1852
A Prehistoric Tool Discovery May Have Just Rewritten Human History 6 Judi Lynn Sep 2024 Sep 2024 22 2233
Mysterious white substance smeared on 3,600-year-old mummies is world's oldest cheese 6 Bayard Sep 2024 Sep 2024 10 1652
An Ice Age Infant's 17,000-Year-Old DNA Reveals He Had Dark Skin and Blue Eyes 6 Judi Lynn Oct 2024 Oct 2024 17 2228
Ancient Europeans ate the brains of their dead enemies 18,000 years ago, researchers discover 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2025 Feb 2025 5 1406
Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man 6 Judi Lynn May 2025 May 2025 73 3795
Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 18 2803
Artificial Intelligence identifies unknown human ancestor 6 Judi Lynn Jan 2019 Jan 2019 26 3062
Easter Island's famous moai statues slowly fading away 6 Judi Lynn Apr 2019 Apr 2019 24 4711
Egypt opens 2 ancient pyramids for first time since 1960s 6 Judi Lynn Jul 2019 Jul 2019 10 3022
Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of an Ancient High-Altitude Human Dwelling 6 left-of-center2012 Aug 2019 Aug 2019 13 3202
Neanderthals spent a surprising amount of time underwater 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Aug 2019 12 2355
Toothless Druid Woman's Face Comes Alive in Wax, Wrinkles and All 6 Judi Lynn Aug 2019 Sep 2019 31 3008
Researchers revise timing of Easter island's societal collapse 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 11 2205
Did We Kill Off Another Species of Humans Ten Thousand Years Ago? 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 9 2079
Experts Discover a 'Shrine' of 15,000-Year-Old Animal Carvings and Mysterious Symbols in a Spanish C 6 Judi Lynn Feb 2020 Feb 2020 44 4642
A temple that predates Stonehenge reveals architectural planning may be older than we think 6 left-of-center2012 May 2020 Jun 2020 11 2313
Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas 6 Jim__ Sep 2020 Oct 2020 11 2493
Archaeological proof for 1,700 YearOld Chemical fighting 6 Judi Lynn Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1694
Our Ancestors' Chipped Teeth Are Taking Scientists Further Back in Time Than Ever Before 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 15 1924
1,800-year-old altar to pagan god Pan hidden in a Byzantine church 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2020 Dec 2020 16 2306
When We Took Over the World 6 Uncle Joe Oct 2021 Oct 2021 5 1622
A Staggering Excavation Has Rewritten The Fall Of The Roman Empire 6 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 46 3366

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Seahenge, Norfolk: The ancient Bronze Age circle that lay hidden for 4,000 years 5 Judi Lynn Jan 2021 Jan 2021 23 2080
Israeli archaeologists find 'Biblical royal purple dye' 5 Wicked Blue Jan 2021 Jan 2021 11 2081
Ancient shell horn can still play a tune after 18,000 years 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Feb 2021 7 1619
'Powerful, maybe even frightening' woman with diadem may have ruled in Bronze Age Spain 5 Judi Lynn Mar 2021 Mar 2021 23 2839
Celtic god or 1980s hockey player? Ancient deity statue wears a mullet and mustache 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2021 Mar 2021 2 2628
Ancient settlement 'older than Skara Brae' emerges on Orkney 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 9 1775
Traces of Bronze Age Village Discovered in Switzerland 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 16 1641
'Plain of Jars', one of the most mysterious archaeological sites, reveals its true age 5 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 Apr 2021 13 2322
New Findings on Santorini Point to "Lost Island of Atlantis" Origins 5 Judi Lynn May 2021 May 2021 11 2412
14,000-Year-Old Fossilized Poop Among Oldest Traces of Humans in North America 5 left-of-center2012 Jun 2021 Jun 2021 10 1862
Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows 5 Jilly_in_VA Jul 2021 Jul 2021 6 2037
The Maya's ingenious secret to survival 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Aug 2021 29 2894
Human Remains Amongst Bone Horde Found In Saudi Arabian Ancient Lava Tube 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Sep 2021 5 1420
The Choquequilla Inca Huaca 5 Judi Lynn Aug 2021 Sep 2021 7 1776
Fossil footprints show humans in North America more than 21,000 years ago. 5 elleng Sep 2021 Sep 2021 7 1968
Analysis of ancient teeth questions theory that Native Americans originated from Japan 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2021 Oct 2021 9 1674
What Drove Homo Erectus Out of Africa? 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2021 Oct 2021 14 2046
Noushabad - The Hidden Underground City 5 Judi Lynn Oct 2021 Nov 2021 14 1769
7 Roman inventions: Incredible feats of ancient technology 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 12 1613
The world's oldest pants stitched together cultures from across Asia 5 Judi Lynn Feb 2022 Feb 2022 30 2097
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