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Metal Detectorist Finds a Gold Hatpin That May Have Belonged to Edward IV

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Metal Detectorist Finds a Gold Hatpin That May Have Belonged to Edward IV

Stonehenge Builders Likely Descended From Immigrants, Genetic Analysis Says

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Stonehenge Builders Likely Descended From Immigrants, Genetic Analysis Says

Unraveling the History of Human Hair

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Unraveling the History of Human Hair

New Study Reveals Why Easter Island's Statues Are Positioned Along the Coast

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New Study Reveals Why Easter Island's Statues Are Positioned Along the Coast

9 Enlightening Courses You Can Take Online in March 2019

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Laser Scans Detect Hidden Buildings and Tunnels Beneath Alcatraz Prison

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Scientists Solve an Ancient Stonehenge Mystery: Where the Massive Rocks Came From

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A Private Island With Ancient Ruins Just Hit the Market in Ireland

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A (Still-Sharp) Medieval Sword Was Pulled from a Sewer in Denmark

Pipe layer Jannick Vestergaard and engineer Henning Nøhr hold up the sword they found.

Machu Picchu Is Wheelchair-Accessible for the First Time Ever

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Historians Studying an ‘Ancient’ Scottish Stone Circle Learn It Was Built in the 1990s

A stone circle like this one was recently shown to be a replica.

The Quest to Find—and Save—the World's Most Famous Shipwreck

Karolina Kristensson, the Swedish National Maritime Museums

11 Facts About Robert the Bruce, King of Scots

Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn

People Have Been Dining on Caviar Since the Stone Age

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Dozens of Cat Mummies, Plus 100 Cat Statues, Discovered in 4500-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb

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Wreckage of a World War II Nazi 'Flying Bomb' Found in English Forest

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