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A cluster of prehistoric dugout canoes resting beneath Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin, has been dated to as early as around 3000 BC, meaning at least one is older than Egypt’s Great Pyramid of ...

Daniel Pierce and Chris Bodine with the Missouri State University Center for Archaeological Research believe their findings ...

In Chiapas, Palenque rose from the jungle as explorers stumbled into a city forgotten for a thousand years, then a buried staircase led to a royal tomb sealed beneath the Temple of the Inscriptions.

The Swiss author whose bestselling books about the extraterrestrial origins of ancient civilizations brought him fame ...

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Gabriel Zuchtriegel was appointed Director of Pompeii in 2021, and has since begun a major excavation, and made a number of significant finds. But it is walking around the site at night, emptied of ...

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