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An ancient skeleton with a prosthetic eye was discovered 15 years ago Believe it or not, fake eyes have existed for thousands of years. Besides improving the physical appearance of the patient needing the artificial eye, fake eyes also prevent tissues in the eye socket from overgrowing and prevent foreign debris from entering the eye …
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A 3,700-year-old burial site suggests female rule in Bronze Age Spain Archaeologists in Spain have determined that the 3,700-year-old remains of a woman found beneath a Bronze Age-era ruin may well be the first case of an ancient female ruling elite in Western Europe. The discovery at the La Almoloya site in Murcia, Spain, dates to around …
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Archaeologists have discovered a large burial mound in the Siberian “Valley of the Kings” dating to more than 2,500 years ago. Valley of the Kings archaeologists unearth treasures in Siberia dating back 2,500 years. Archaeologists have discovered a large burial mound in the Siberian “Valley of the Kings” dating to more than 2,500 years ago. …
Unusual Find – Headless Skeletons Discovered In A 7000-Year-Old Mass Grave In Slovakia Archaeologists excavating in Slovakia have made an unusual find. The remains of 38 individuals were found in a ditch surrounding the settlement of Vráble. Their well-preserved skeletons were jumbled together and all of them were missing their heads, with the exception of …
7,000-Year-Old Ibex Remains Found Under The Ice In Italy Are 1,700 Years Older Than Ötzi! This summer, a group of climbers made an interesting discovery, but only now have experts confirmed their incredible findings. In July, four mountaineers, Stefan Pirpamer, Tobias Brunner, Arno Ebnicher, and Luca Mercuri , last July found the remains of at …
Preserved by Nature: Studying the Spectacular Salt Mummies of Iran In 1993, miners at the Chehrabad Salt Mine in the Zanjan province of Iran discovered a body. Clearly a man, the body had flowing white hair and a beard, and was sporting a single gold earring. Though he didn’t initially appear that old, carbon dating …
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3.5 billion-year-old rock structures are one of the oldest signs of life on Earth A new study says that some of the oldest life on Earth was found in layered rocks in Western Australia. The fossils in question are stromatolites, which are layered rocks made by the waste of microbes that make food from sunlight. …
Three Thousand-Year-Old Statue Found in Cappadocia, Turkey On April 26, 2021, a Facebook user posted a picture of a “three-thousand-year-old statue unearthed in Cappadocia.” The post had a picture and some words, but no other information. If a Facebook account was set to English by default, it would show two captions, one in Portuguese and …
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Mini Golden Coffin Found in Crypt May Hold Skull Bone of Buddha In 2008, when archaeologists were digging at the Grand Bao’en Temple in Nanjing, China, they found something important: a relic that was connected to Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. The artifact was a piece of a skull bone that was found in an underground shrine. …
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Archaeologists unearth hidden tunnels under the 3,000-year-old temple complex Archaeologists have discovered a system of hidden tunnels beneath the 3,000-year-old Chavn de Huántar temple complex in the Ancash Region of Peru. The tunnels contain unique architectural features never seen before, made by the Indigenous Chavín people. The Chavín de Huántar temple complex has been a …
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