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Crowds swamp church in Spain after ‘Holy Grail’ claim

Curators were forced to remove a precious cup from display in a church in Spain when crowds swarmed there after historians claimed it was...

AFPMarch 31, 2014

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Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt

Archaeologists on Sunday unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt’s famed temple city of Luxor, adding to an existing pair of...

AFPMarch 23, 2014

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Famed Syria Crusader castle survives fierce battles

Columns are blackened with soot and vaults have crumbled in one of the courtyards of Syria’s the Krak des Chevaliers, a Crusader castle that...

AFPMarch 21, 2014

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3,200-year-old skeleton found with cancer

Archaeologists have found the 3,200-year-old skeleton of a man with a spreading form of cancer, the oldest example so far of a disease often...

AFPMarch 17, 2014

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Australians, Canadians held for stripping at Machu Picchu

Police detained four male tourists, two Australians and two Canadians, for several hours after filming and taking nude photos at Peru’s famed Machu Picchu,...

AFPMarch 12, 2014

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Shilling discovery could rewrite Canadian history

An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in...

AFPMarch 4, 2014

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