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Intriguing New Theory Might Explain the Fate of Easter Island's Civilization
Intriguing New Theory Might Explain the Fate of Easter Island's Civilization
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries
The Mysterious Bronze Objects That Have Baffled Archaeologists for Centuries
German Court Awards Farmer $1 Million for 2000-Year-Old Bronzed Horse Head Found in His Well
German Court Awards Farmer $1 Million for 2000-Year-Old Bronzed Horse Head Found in His Well
The Bones of an Early Jamestown Settler May Soon Be Identified
Thousand-Year-Old Anvil Still Has the Smith’s Handprints on It
Utility Workers May Have Found One of Rome’s First Churches
Scientists Just Found the Oldest Known Piece of Bread
Drought Reveals Ancient Sites in Scotland That Can Only Be Spotted From the Air
Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal the First Color Ever Produced by a Living Thing
An Ancient Sarcophagus Was Found in Egypt—And It's Never Been Opened
New Website Lets You Sift Through More Than 700,000 Items Found in Amsterdam's Canals
Human Sacrifice May Have Taken Place at the 'German Stonehenge'
Archaeologists Excavate the Field Where Woodstock Was Held
Gold Artifacts Discovered in 19th-Century Shipwreck That Was the ‘
Titanic
of Its Time’
$2.5 Million in World War II-Era Cash Discovered Beneath Winston Churchill's Former Tailor's Shop
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