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Meteorite crater found in Southern France
Researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt have found a meteorite crater in the grounds of a winery near the town of Béziers in Southern France.
The crater is a round 200-metre-wide depression with a depth of 30 metres, which was formed by the…
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Evidence of Bronze Age cranial surgery found at ancient Megiddo
Archaeologists excavating at ancient Megiddo have found evidence of Bronze Age cranial surgery.
Megiddo is an ancient city, the remains of which form a Tel (an archaeological mound), situated in northern Israel near Kibbutz Megiddo.
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500-year-old medicine container has been revealed to contain herbal mixtures
A study of a cattle-horn used a medicine container, has been revealed to contain herbal mixtures used by the Khoi or San people 500 years ago.
The container was discovered in the La vie D’Antan rock shelter, located in the Langkloof mountains of…
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CT scan reveals 49 amulets in Ancient Egyptian mummy
A CT scan has revealed that a 2,300-year-old Ancient Egyptian mummy has 49 amulets placed within the body.
The team used a computerised tomography (CT) to ‘digitally unwrap’ an undisturbed mummy known as “Golden Boy”.
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The Eye of the Sahara
The Eye of the Sahara, also known as the Richat Structure and the Eye of Africa, is a geological feature in the Sahara Desert’s Adrar Plateau, located in west–central Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
The structure is an eroded elliptical dome…
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Secrets of Ancient Egyptian mummification materials revealed
A new study, published in the journal Nature, has revealed the types of materials used in Ancient Egyptian mummification.
Back in 2016, archaeologists discovered an embalming workshop at the Saqqara Necropolis, located in the Giza Governorate,…
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Archaeologists find 11,000-year-old human remains in British cave
A team of archaeologists from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), have found 11,000-year-old human remains in Heaning Wood Bone Cave, located in Cumbria, England.
Heaning Wood Bone Cave is a limestone formation with a vertical shaft,…
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Lasers are mapping Scotland’s subterranean Iron Age structures
Archaeologists from AOC Archaeology have been using lasers to map subterranean Iron Age structures, such as the Cracknie Souterrain, an Iron Age passageway in the Borgie Forest, Scotland.
A souterrain, from the French name sous terrain, meaning…
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