A ship that sank 2,600 years ago off the coast of Sicily contained a legendary мetal that the ancient Greeks said was discoʋered in the lost city of Atlantis. One of the мost puzzling мysteries of huмan ciʋilisation is the disappearance of the Atlantis city. The interesting city, which was […]
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German Archaeologists Find Almost Complete Skeleton of a 300,000-Year-Old Elephant
300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony elephants spread around Schoningen. In recent years there were the reмains of at least ten elephants at Palaeolithic sites situated on the edges of the forмer opencast lignite мine. In cooperation with the National Saxony State Office for Heritage, archeologists at the SenckenƄerg Center […]
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Discover the species “Siberian Unicorn” walking with humans on Earth 2.6 million years ago
What Became of the Mammoth-Sized One-Horned Beasts of Legend? The Last of the Siberian Unicorns A kind of extinct rhino known as Elasmotherium also goes by the names Giant Siberian Unicorn and Giant Rhinoceros. It inhabited the Eurasian area throughout the Late Pliocene and Pleistocene ages. The new fossils were […]
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Nearly 20 million years ago, the most hideous and vicious hell pig to have ever existed in prehistoric North America, succeeded in evolving
The Hell Pig or Entelodont was definitely one of the ugliest creatures ever to have lived, at least by human standards. Nevertheless, this petrifying pig was an evolutionary success surviving for nearly 20 million years in eat-or-be-eaten prehistoric North America. Illustrating images Hell pigs are not related to modern pigs; […]
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Southwest France has a shipwreck that dates back 1,300 years
Archeologists in France have discovered the wreck of a ship that navigated the Garonne river in southwestern France in the 7th-8th century. The French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) revealed the 12-meter (40-foot) boat to the public Wednesday in Villenave-d’Ornon on the banks of the Garonne in southwest France. The […]
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Off the English Coast, a Royal Shipwreck from the 17th century is unearthed
Off the coast of England, a royal shipwreck has been unearthed. The Gloucester, one of the most renowned ships of the 17th century, sunk 340 years ago while transporting James Stuart, the future King of England. Since running aground on a sandbank on May 6, 1682, the wreck has lain […]
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14,000-year-old settlement discovered in western Turkey
During the rescue excavation carried out in a cave in Dikili, İzmir, in western Turkey, 14 thousand-year-old stone tools and bone remains belonging to the Late Paleolithic Age were found. Turkish and German scientists who carried out the studies revealed that the cave was also used as a cult center […]
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Nearly 1,000-year-old Native American canoe recovered from Lake Waccamaw
A 1,000-year-old Waccamaw Indian dug canoe was retrieved from Lake Waccamaw near Wilmington, North Carolina after it was discovered by three teenagers having a fun day out. The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology and the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe worked together to retrieve a 930-year-old canoe from Lake Waccamaw. Canoes […]
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Remains of a 45,000-year-old woolly mammoth strongly suggest an early human presence
NEW YORK — The remains of a mammoth that was hunted down about 45,000 years ago have revealed the earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic. Marks on the bones, found in far northern Russia, indicate the creature was stabbed and butchered. The tip of a tusk was damaged […]
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An accidently discovered female “vampire’s” skeleton was found in Europe
The concept of a blood-sucking spirit, or demon consuming human flesh has been told in the mythology and folktales of almost every civilisation throughout the centuries. One of the earliest vampiric depictions stems from cuneiform texts by the Akkadians, Samarians, Assyrians and Babylonians, where they referred to demonic figures such […]
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