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ANCIENT remains of a suspected ‘Amazon warrior’ have been identified as a girl no older than 13 years old.

The Battle of Visby was a violent medieval battle near the town of Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland, fought between the inhabitants of Gotland and the Danes, with the latter emerging victorious.

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The reconstructed face of Pharaoh Thutmose IV is startlingly life-like, and makes you wonder what secrets the ancient king still hides.

Scientists this week unveiled a 16 million-year-old fossil skull unearthed in Peru of a river dolphin that once swam in waters that are now the Amazon, and whose closest living relative is the South Asian river dolphin in India’s Ganges River. A fossil of the skull of the largest dolphin in history that inhabited the […]

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This is no fluke. There are thousands of such brains well-preserved by natural processes.

The newest coin dates to 1265 AD and the oldest to 175 BC

Bridging the past and the future, ultraviolet light exposes a long-lost Biblical translation.

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After they revisited photos of ancient human skeletons first exhumed in Portugal’s Sado Valley in the 1960s, archaeologists now believe that the 8,000-year-old remains went …

A unique Roman cavalary helmet has been restored 20 years after its discovery. It’s now on display.

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Archaeologists have recovered a Roman funerary altar which was found partially buried in the Torree river in the municipality of San Vito al Torre, Italy. …

In the heart of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, a Spanish research team, led by Martina, embarked on an expedition to uncover the mysteries surrounding

Mummified remains of a woman buried 900 years ago have been found with her eyelashes and hair still intact.

In central Ireland, beneath the looming presence of Croghan Hill, lies a mystery shrouded in history. Known simply as the Old Croghan Man, his true name remains a riddle lost to time. Archaeologists named him after the very bog where he was found. This location hints at his significance, for Croghan Hill once served as the epicenter of an ancient Irish Kingdom.  A peculiar aspect of Croghan Man’s identity lies in his well-manicured fingernails. Unlike the toiling hands of laborers, his bore no scars or calluses. These immaculate hands suggest a life devoid of manual labor, signifying a high social status.

Technology is changing almost every aspect of our lives. It is also transforming how we understand and relate to our past and heritage. A new initiative, ‘My Colorful Past’ is using facial recognition technology to reconstruct the faces of people from history. This project has just reconstructed the face of one of the greatest of all the pharaohs, Seti I, who played an important part in the story of Moses.