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A team of international researchers say they have uncovered ancient fossilized elephant footprints.
The researchers say the prints are 7-million-years old.
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A new discovery in Peru suggests early inhabitants ate corn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
An unearthing of ancient corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels were unearthed and date back approximately 6,700 to 3,000 years ago.
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The Kung-Fu Taiwan puppetry known as potehi or budaixi is part of a feature length documentary film titled "PuppetVision: The Movie." Potehi is glove puppet art, a 3,000-year old artistic skill that originated from ethnic Chinese nomads.
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Amman -
Jordanian officials have made a startling claim about a set of ancient “codices”, or books that might be the earliest Christian literature dating from shortly after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.
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Cairo -
As the crisis in Egypt continues, experts have expressed concern that the country’s priceless archaeological heritage could come under threat from vandals and looters, who have already stolen some of the country’s precious antiquities.
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Lima -
A 1,200-year-old royal tomb belonging to the pre-Inca Sican Culture has been discovered in Peru’s coastal Lambayeque region, according to the director of the Las Ventanas archaeological dig.
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Durango -
A report in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology shows ancient Puebloan Indians, also called Anasazi, practiced cannibalism, a claim seen as taboo by many.
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Pliska -
A burial site of the Old Bulgars, described as unique in Europe, has been unearthed near the Black Sea coast at the site of early medieval Bulgaria’s first capital, Pliska.
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An ancient reef found in the South Pacific may help scientists determine how coral could be damaged if sea temperatures rise.
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Manchester -
A British academic says he has found the secret code underlying the works of one of the founders of Western thought. Plato, he says, proved the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics, now revealed.
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Armed robbers steal dozens of priceless artefacts from a Greek museum in Olympia dedicated to the history of the ancient Olympic Games.
An important ancient artefact smuggled from Afghanistan during the civil war has been returned to a museum in Kabul.
'Shieldcroc' is an ancient, extinct crocodile that's been discovered by scientists studying fossils in Missouri in the US.
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