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Construction Workers in Italy Uncover a Jar of 5th-Century Gold Coins Potentially Worth Millions

They were found not far from the site of an ancient Roman town.

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Explore Mexico's Ancient Mayan Sites on a New Train Line

The line will run from Cancún to the ancient village of Palenque.

Shipton et. al,

Homo Erectus Might Have Been Really 'Lazy'

All that stood between them and better stone tools was a little hill. And yet.

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Intriguing New Theory Might Explain the Fate of Easter Island's Civilization

It's calling into question what we thought we knew about the mysterious culture.

The Roman dodecahedron Brian Campbell found in East London

The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries

They've been discovered at Roman-era sites, but no one knows what they're for.

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German Court Awards Farmer $1 Million for 2000-Year-Old Bronzed Horse Head Found in His Well

He was originally paid $55,946.

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The Bones of an Early Jamestown Settler May Soon Be Identified

Archaeologists think it's a leading citizen.

Steve Dockrill

Thousand-Year-Old Anvil Still Has the Smith’s Handprints on It

And knee prints, too.

Romano D’Agostini, Giorgio Cargnel, Soprintendenza Speciale di Roma

Utility Workers May Have Found One of Rome’s First Churches

They were doing routine work on a bridge.

Alexis Pantos, University of Copenhagen

Scientists Just Found the Oldest Known Piece of Bread

It's a little like a pita, but grittier.

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Drought Reveals Ancient Sites in Scotland That Can Only Be Spotted From the Air

Surveyors are taking advantage of the uncharacteristic weather.

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Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal the First Color Ever Produced by a Living Thing

And it hasn't gone out of fashion yet.

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New Website Lets You Sift Through More Than 700,000 Items Found in Amsterdam's Canals

The discoveries came from the construction of the city's new metro line.

A 2016 reconstruction of Pӧmmelte, a henge-like structure in eastern Germany that was originally constructed about 4300 years ago.

Human Sacrifice May Have Taken Place at the 'German Stonehenge'

Researchers found the dismembered bodies of 10 women and children who appeared to have been thrown into burial shafts.

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Archaeologists Excavate the Field Where Woodstock Was Held

They found a lot of beer can pull tabs.

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Gold Artifacts Discovered in 19th-Century Shipwreck That Was the ‘Titanic of Its Time’

The wreckage of the <em>Pulaski</em> was lost for almost 180 years.

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$2.5 Million in World War II-Era Cash Discovered Beneath Winston Churchill's Former Tailor's Shop

The hoard would have been worth a fortune in the 1940s.

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A World War II Bomber Lost with 11 Servicemembers Has Been Found After 74 Years

Project Recover tracked down aircraft in a bay near Papua New Guinea.

Peter Pfälzner, University of Tübingen

Archaeologists Finally Identify a 4000-Year-Old Lost City in Iraq

A team had been excavating the site for years before figuring out what it was.

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King Tut's Tomb Doesn't Contain Hidden Rooms After All

It was once believed that his stepmother Queen Nefertiti may be hidden away at the same site.

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Apply Now to Join an Archaeological Dig at Colorado's Magic Mountain

Applications close today.

Graffiti of gladiators from Pompeii at the Naples National Archaeological Museum

7 Entertaining Examples of Ancient Graffiti

"I visited and I did not like anything except the sarcophagus!"

Alex McCelland, Bournemouth University

Fossilized Footprints Show Ice Age Hunters Ganged Up on Giant Sloths

Sloths—those symbols of loafers and loungers everywhere—weren't always so cute and cuddly.

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Ice Age Artists Used Charcoal Over 10,000 Years to Create Europe's Oldest Cave Paintings

Researchers now have a better understanding of how these paintings were created some 35,000 years ago.