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Lycurgus Cup: A Roman glass goblet made with ancient color-changing nanotechnologyAstonishing Artifacts This Roman glass cup can change from jade green to ruby red, and it features a mythical king who tried to banish Dionysus.
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Ghostly statue of 'shrine maiden' discovered at 1,500-year-old burial mound in JapanArchaeologists have unearthed a human-shaped funeral offering that may represent an ancient Japanese priestess.
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'This is so crazy!': Virginia college student looking for shark teeth finds rare Native American spearpointA biology student found a Native American stone spearpoint when searching for shark teeth along the coast of Virginia.
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Bronze Age sword discovered in an Italian lake is still sharp after 3,300 yearsArchaeologists found several ancient weapons, intact vases and a bronze razor in the volcanic crater lake.
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Our extinct cousins the Denisovans had a 'distinctive' appearance, new analysis revealsPaleoproteomic analysis of fossils from northern China reveals that Denisovans had a distinctive physical appearance.
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30,000-year-old bone found in French cave reveals vast genetic connections between people of Eastern and Western Europe during the Stone AgeScientists sequenced the genome of a woman who lived 30,000 years ago and discovered that she had mixed Eastern and Western European ancestry.
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Mold gold cape: A 3,900-year-old accessory that's one of the finest examples of prehistoric goldwork ever foundAstonishing Artifacts The stunningly detailed gold cape is unique in Europe and may have belonged to a high-ranking woman.
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Case of mysterious medieval skeleton buried in Roman-era sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey finally solvedA sarcophagus in Westminster Abbey with Roman and Anglo-Saxon decorations baffled archaeologists, but now a 150-year-old mystery has finally been solved.
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Undeciphered Voynich manuscript may have been bound out of order, study findsExperts argue that the mysterious Voynich manuscript was incorrectly bound — a discovery that "moves the ball" in finally deciphering the 15th-century document.
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11th-century 'pizza peel' discovered in Russia doubled as a medieval game boardArchaeologists in Russia unearthed a flat wooden "pizza paddle" that had a board game carved into it.
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Romans may have set fire to Celtic town during conquest to 'humiliate' the enemy, archaeologists findArchaeologists discovered a first-century-B.C. military camp that was erected during Emperor Augustus' Cantabrian Wars.
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'Birdman' copper plate: A 700-year-old depiction of a Native American warrior that may be a woman holding a weapon and a severed headAstonishing Artifacts Discovered in an Indigenous grave in Georgia nearly 150 years ago, the "Birdman" copper plate may actually depict a woman ceremonially dressed as a warrior.
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Archaeologists discover the oldest dwelling in the Western Hemisphere at a 13,800-year-old site in AlaskaArchaeologists have discovered an ancient base camp in Alaska that has evidence of the oldest dwelling and possibly the earliest domesticated dogs in the Americas.
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Mysterious hole in Neanderthal shoulder blade may have been a 'kill shot' from a wooden spear, according to archaeologistsA rare discovery reveals that 75,000 years ago, a Neanderthal from Shanidar Cave in Iraq died a grisly death, likely from a wooden spear.
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Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of milesArchaeologists excavating a medieval African kingdom have discovered pottery from eastern China, revealing connections across continents.
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Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before ColumbusAstonishing Artifacts This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.
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'It could have been a very different history': Researchers are finally starting to pin down how many Indigenous people were living in the Americas when Columbus arrivedArchaeologists and geographers have been trying to estimate the pre-1492 population of the Americas for decades. But it's difficult.
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Archaeologists discover a child's skull built into the floor of a 2,500-year-old Scandinavian houseA study of nearly 200 individuals buried in domestic contexts in ancient and Viking Age Scandinavia has revealed unusually high levels of violence.
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1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in GermanyArchaeologists in Germany have found a temple to Mars, the god of war, next to a Roman Empire military encampment.
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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler's arrival to the Maya underworldAstonishing Artifacts This 1,400-year-old Maya urn features skulls, underworld gods, and a deceased ancestor dressed like a jaguar.
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The ancestors of today's Indigenous people arrived in the Americas during the coldest part of the last ice age, study suggestsThe first people in the Americas arrived no earlier than 21,000 years ago, but "there are huge gaps in our genetic dataset," a new study reports.
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13,000-year-old butchered bones of long-tusked beast found in Chile give more evidence of early first AmericansArchaeological excavations in the Lake Tagua Tagua basin in central Chile have revealed stone tools and animal bones with cut marks dated to 13,000 years ago.
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Battersea Shield: A 2,000-year-old Celtic shield that may have been 'sacrificed' in a ritual in the River ThamesAstonishing Artifacts The Battersea Shield was discovered in the 19th century at the bottom of the Thames. Archaeologists still aren't sure how it ended up there.
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Archaeologists discover 'tomb of the very highest rank' in 2,700-year-old Etruscan cemeteryArchaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome.
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