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Europe's 1st humans were likely wiped out by a sudden freeze 1.1 million years agoEurope underwent "extreme cooling" about 1.1 million years ago, which coincides with a gap in hominin habitation, a new study finds.
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400-year-old 'vampire child' found buried with its foot padlocked to stop it rising from the graveThe child was buried face-down and with an iron padlock on its foot.
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29 lost burials archaeologists have yet to find (and 1 they did)The burials of famous people provide enduring archaeological mysteries. Here are 30 of the most acclaimed "lost" tombs.
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What are the origins of the Nazi swastika?The Nazi symbol is not the same as the ancient Hindu symbol.
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Ancient Roman boat from empire's frontier unearthed in Serbian coal mineCoal miners found the remains of a Roman boat that likely supplied an ancient frontier city and military headquarters.
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4,000-year-old cemetery discovered at future rocket launch site in UKArchaeologists think the burial site dates from about 4,000 years ago, during the Bronze Age.
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3,000-year-old untouched burial of 'charioteer' discovered in SiberiaThe discovery implies horse-drawn chariots were once used in the region, but none have been found.
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Evidence of Roman-era 'death magic' used to speak with the deceased found near JerusalemResearchers think the morbid practice originated with pagan people who settled in the region after the Romans drove out the Jews.
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Elite Bronze Age tombs laden with gold and precious stones are 'among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean'The obvious wealth of the tombs was based on the local production of copper, which was in great demand at the time to make bronze.
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Metal detectorists find buried WWII aircraft in Ukraine while disarming wartime bombThe aircraft were sent to the Soviet Union in 1941 to help the Allied war effort, but they were dumped to avoid payment.
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Viking sword from warrior's grave unearthed in family's yard in NorwayThe Viking Age weapon was discovered by a homeowner clearing land for an extension.
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Roman aqueduct and 'luxurious' burials unearthed during construction of underground parking garage in SerbiaThe finds in Belgrade date from the period when the city was a regional center of the Roman Empire.
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Complete Bronze Age town with elite tombs discovered in northern ChinaThe site is one of the largest ever discovered dating from China's early Shang Dynasty.
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Enigmatic Anglo-Saxon ivory rings discovered in elite burials came from African elephants 4,000 miles awayHundreds of elite Anglo-Saxon women were buried with mysterious ivory rings. Now, researchers know the ivory came from elephants living about 4,000 miles away from England.
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1,000-year-old wall in Peru was built to protect against El Niño floods, research suggestsThe research found flood sediments only on the eastern side of a desert wall built almost 1,000 years ago.
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Vast cemetery of Bronze Age burial mounds unearthed near StonehengeThe cemetery was built at the same time as most of Stonehenge.
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Top-secret special-ops submarine from World War II discovered after 20-year searchA veteran Greek diver announced that he'd discovered the wreck of HMS Triumph after searching for more than 20 years.
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Broken pagan statue of Greek god Pan unearthed at early church ruins in IstanbulA marble statue of the Greek god Pan was found in "backfill" at an archaeological site in Istanbul that probably came from elsewhere in the ancient city.
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AI identifies 3 more 'Nazca Lines' figures in PeruThe deep-learning system is 21 times faster than a human at finding ancient "geoglyphs" in aerial photographs of Peru's Nazca Desert.
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2,300-year-old Buddhist elephant statue from India is one of the oldest knownArchaeologists in eastern India have unearthed an elephant statue thought to date to the third century B.C., when the region was mainly Buddhist.
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150-year-old mystery of strange half-circles from Paleolithic site in France finally solvedHurling spear-thrower projectiles at archery targets revealed that these loops may have been finger grips.
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Hidden tunnel and rooms unearthed under 1,500-year-old church in IstanbulArchaeologists have excavated subterranean rooms and a tunnel under an early church in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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What was the longest-lasting civilization?Is the longest-lasting civilization China, ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia? Here's a look at the evidence for each of these enduring cultures.
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2,700-year-old leather saddle found in woman's tomb in China is oldest on recordThe elaborate leather saddle is dated from between roughly 700 B.C. and 400 B.C. and may be the earliest ever found.
