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5,000-year-old burial of man with battered skull found in kiln in Germany — and he may have been a human sacrificeAn injured man from the Corded Ware culture was buried in a pit previously used as a kiln, and he may have been sacrificed.
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Wreck of World War II Japanese 'hellship' that sank with more than 1,000 Allied POWs on board discovered off the PhilippinesThe remains of a Japanese "hellship" that was torpedoed in 1944 and sank with more than 1,000 POWs on board has been found off the coast of the Philippines island of Luzon.
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Lavish Roman villa discovered outside Rome's walls may have been frequented by Hadrian and Marcus AureliusThe villa, which came to light because it was illegally excavated, was found in an area frequented two millennia ago by the emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
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'Melted in a pot somewhere': Vikings used Islamic silver coins to make their early pennies, study findsThe silver in a Viking Age hoard found in Denmark was from melted-down coins from the faraway Islamic world, a new study finds.
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Mask of Mictlantecuhtli: A 500-year-old mask of the Aztec god of the underworld, who tore apart the dead as they entered his realmAstonishing Artifacts This skull-shaped mask was made to be used in a ritual involving the Aztec god of death.
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Bow-Wow, Ding-Dong, Pooh-Pooh: Expert explains early theories of how human language evolved — and their silly namesThere are many theories as to how human language first evolved. But none completely explains why it happened.
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'Political motivations' of Inca emperor led to the sacrifice of 3 children on a snow-capped volcano over 500 years ago, study suggestsAn analysis of corn, cassava and coca plants discovered with sacrificed Inca children reveals they died during the reign of one of the last Inca emperors.
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Complete skin of an adult horse found with 10th-century woman and newborn in rare Siberian burialArchaeologists found a rare medieval burial of a woman, newborn child and horse in southern Russia.
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2,000 years ago in Scotland, people removed a corpse's brain and fashioned the arm bones into toolsA new analysis of 2,000-year-old skeletons found in northern Scotland has revealed an unusual funeral ritual involving the manipulation of dead bodies.
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