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Internet allows virtual Giza tour in 3D

Vicarious travellers and students of history can take a virtual stroll through the vast necropolis build by the ancient Egyptians in the Giza Plateau, thanks to a 3D Internet project launched this week.

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created May 11, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Skeleton found near Cambridge evidence of first Christian burial in England

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British archeological team has unearthed the 1,400-year old remains of a sixteen year old girl buried with a gold and garnet cross on her chest. And because they also found with her, an ...

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created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the ...

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Original offering found at Teotihuacan pyramid

Archaeologists announced Tuesday that they dug to the very core of Mexico's tallest pyramid and found what may be the original ceremonial offering placed on the site of the Pyramid of the Sun before construction began.

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created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Ecological burial involves freeze-drying, composting the corpse

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since the 12th century, the most common way to bury the dead has been to lay the corpse in a casket and then bury the casket several feet underground. Since then, we have learned that ...

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created Mar 08, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 19 | with audio podcast weblog

Oldest Caspian Horse remains discovered in Iran

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Caspian Horse, also known as the "King's Horse" or the Mazandaran horse, is the oldest breed of horse still in existence. The newest discovery of remains makes it even older than originally ...

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created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Human skull study causes evolutionary headache

Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.

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created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Study Debunks Millennia-old Claims of Systematic Infant Sacrifice in Ancient Carthage

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers could finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest citizens. An examination of ...

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created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Taiwan find may throw light on Pacific settlers

Taiwanese archaeologists working on an islet off China have unearthed the remains of a Stone Age male who may provide clues about ancient people who eventually dispersed throughout the entire Pacific.

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created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Archaeologists rewrite history of the Trefael Stone

The Trefael Stone, a scheduled ancient monument in south-west Wales originally thought to be an ancient standing stone is actually the capstone of a 5,500-year-old tomb, according to new research from an archaeologist ...

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created Apr 13, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Skeletons found in Oxford could be '10th-century Viking raiders'

(Phys.org) -- Thirty-seven skeletons found in a mass burial site in the grounds of St John's College may not be who they initially seemed, according to Oxford researchers studying the remains.

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created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Early Bronze Age grave discovered in Perthshire

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists have discovered a spectacular Early Bronze Age grave at the Scottish Royal centre at Forteviot.

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created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Norwegian petroglyphs found beneath burial mounds

It looked to be a routine excavation of what was thought to be a burial mound. But beneath the mound, archaeologists from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology’s Museum of Natural History ...

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created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 0

BBC History Cold Case team solve mystery of Norwich bodies in the well

History Cold Case is returning for a second series on BBC TWO. In the third episode of this new series on Thursday, 14th July, 2011 at 9pm, investigators reveal the extraordinary possible reason that 17 skeletons were discovered ...

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Historian: 3 possible Japanese airmen for skull

(AP) -- The skull found in Pearl Harbor believed to be from a Japanese pilot in the Dec. 7, 1941 attack could belong to one of three airmen who were aboard a torpedo plane that was shot down where the surprising discovery ...

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