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Roman-Era ‘Mega Villa’ Bigger than the Taj Mahal Discovered in England The remains of a huge Roman villa dated to 99 AD have been discovered in Oxfordshire, the second largest Roman villa that has ever been found in England. Archaeologists excavated the remains of the historic building, which is believed to be bigger than the …
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A Massive Roman Villa Has Been Found In Oxfordshire, England In Oxfordshire, the second largest Roman villa ever found in England, the remains of a huge Roman villa dating back to 99 AD have been discovered. As part of a four-month excavation project, archeologists excavated the remains of the historic building, which is believed to …
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An oldest hand-written Roman document discovered in London Archeologists announced the findings of a dig in London as the first ever written roman record in a recent discovery. The record is handwritten and is Britain’s oldest written roman document discovered. The nature of the contents of the documents was revealed after The Museum of London …
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Bones of Handless Man Found Near Mysterious Medieval Dolphin Burial The body of a man without hands thought to have been buried hundreds of years ago has been found by archaeologists on a rocky islet off the coast of Guernsey, one of the British Channel Islands — just a few feet from where a mysterious …
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Two Ancient Egyptian Kingdom Tombs Opened in Luxor, Egypt Two tombs of unidentified officials dated to Egypt’s New Kingdom era have been opened at Luxor’s Draa Abul-Naglaa necropolis years after they were initially discovered by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp in the 1990s. The opening of the tombs was announced at an international conference attended by …
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Lost medieval village discovered in Denmark Traces of three courtyards surrounded by a ditch marks out an area, which archaeologists have interpreted as the center of a village dating back to the Middle Ages in Tollerup, East Denmark. Historical sources suggest that the farms belonged to the village rulers. A cellar in the largest farm …
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Archaeologists Discover Another Buried Sphinx In Egypt Egyptian archaeologists working on a groundwater reduction project at the Kom Ombo Temple in Aswan have discovered a sandstone sphinx, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities on Sunday. The discovery comes as a surprise as in the last few months, archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered the …
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An English Teacher of History and a 9000-year-old cheddar man have the same DNA Separated by 10,000 years but linked by DNA! A 9,000-year-old skeleton’s DNA was tested and it was concluded that a living relative was teaching history about a half mile away, tracing back nearly 300 generations! Four years before, when Adrian Targett, …
Mystery Of The 100 Ton ‘Boxes’ At The Serapeum Of Saqqara Located North West of the Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara, we find the Serapeum of Saqqara. According to archaeologists, it was the burial-place of the Apus Bulls, literally speaking the living manifestations of the Egyptian God Ptah. This necropolis found near Memphis, Egypt is …
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Prehistoric Skulls With Bullet Holes: An Unsolved Ancient Mystery – Who Shot Them? In 1922, a very peculiar Neanderthal skull was found near Kabwe (also known as Broken Hill), Zimbabwe. The skull discovered by Swiss miner Tom Zwiglaar was exceptional because on the left side of the cranium was a small, perfectly round hole. At …
