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They found a 2,000-year-old machine under the sea, and it changed everything we knew about ancient history
For more than a century, one of history’s greatest technological mysteries sat hidden beneath the sea. When historians began ...
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Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old statue in Spain - then some claimed it was evidence of the lost civilization of Atlantis
A vast ancient burial complex in China has revealed elaborate tomb structures, valuable artifacts, and evidence of sophisticated funerary traditions. In the Roman Empire, secretive followers of the ...
Roman statue found on Teynham building site to be displayed at British Museum
A 1,700-year-old Roman statue found during an archaeological dig at a building site is set to go on display in London.
Smithsonian Magazine
A Century Ago, an Extinct Crocodilian’s Skull Was Found in the Rocks That Built the Sphinx. Turns Out, It Belonged to a New Species
The specimen was long mislabeled, according to a new study. Paleontologists identified it as a previously undescribed genus ...
National Catholic Register
Carlo Acutis and the 4 Popes
Carlo went on pilgrimage to see John Paul II, offered up his suffering from cancer for Benedict XVI, was beatified during the ...
Smithsonian Magazine
A Researcher Studying in a Dutch Library Was Amazed to Discover a Scrap of Parchment From a 1,700-Year-Old Copy of ‘The Odyssey’
In the stacks of a library in the Netherlands, one researcher has discovered a positively epic scrap of torn parchment. Handwritten in Greek, the three-inch piece of paper contains verses from a ...
La Brújula Verde
A 45-Million-Year-Old New Crocodile Species Found in the Same Rock as the Great Sphinx Is Missing Its Nose, Too
The Great Sphinx has been without a nose for centuries. Now a fossil crocodile skull taken from the same rock turns out to be ...
Northern Public Radio
Lightning strikes, beheadings, and 60 years of NIU’s most famous 'gargoyle'
On Oct. 14, 1966, one of Altgeld Hall’s iconic stone grotesques was felled from the building’s west entrance by a lightning ...
Phys.org
To read 2,000-year-old burned scrolls, scientists burn their own
Douglas Seiler painstakingly sourced papyrus and reed pens from Egypt and traditional lampblack ink from Japan, then paid some high school students to inscribe the papyrus with lines from Star Wars ...
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'Rusty treasure' found in Danube has 2,000-year-old iron that could equip a whole army with weapons
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than two millennia ago, a ship carrying a wealth of iron sank in the Danube River in what is now Austria. Archaeologists have ...
4-Day Trip to Nara: Discovering the Old and New in Japan's Ancient Capital, Part 3
This is the third part of my trip to the ancient capital of Nara, covering the latter half of the third day: the Nara ...
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NFL power rankings: Where Jets' next opponent, the Patriots, rank in Week 6
Here's where the Patriots, the Jets' upcoming opponent in Week 6, land in national NFL power rankings polls this week.