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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain’s Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

Archaeologists Were Searching a Forest in the Clouds—and Found 100 Structures From an Ancient City

The civilization was known for sophisticated urban centers, ceremonial platforms, cliffside burial structures, and ...
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'We do not know of a similar case': 4,000-year-old burial in little-known African kingdom mystifies archaeologists

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ...

Amateur Archaeologists Found an Ancient Burial Ground On Top of a 12,000-Year-Old Monument

The burial site was 4,500 years old, but archaeology society members saw enough evidence to believe it was already in use ...

Archaeologists Dove to the Bottom of a Lake—and Found a 600-Year-Old Lost City

The waters of Lake Issyk-Kul have hidden an important Silk Road city ever since an earthquake shifted the region’s landscape.

Archaeologists Shine Light on Mystery Behind ‘Hanging Coffins’

A new study has revealed more about the ancestral origins of the ancient practice, which involves mounting coffins on cliffs.

'Hermetically sealed' Roman sarcophagus frozen in time for 1,700 years finally opened by archaeologists

Archaeologists in Budapest, Hungary, opened a rare and untouched Roman sarcophagus for the first time in 1,700 years, finding ...

Archaeologists find artifacts older than Stonehenge beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament: 'Incredibly rare'

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.
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Archaeologists Find Evidence of a Bronze Age City in Kazakhstan

Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought ...

Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a ...

Ancient canoes found in Wisconsin lake were like modern-day e-bike rack, archaeologists say

More than a dozen ancient canoes uncovered in a Wisconsin lake offer insights into prehistoric Indigenous transportation ...

Archaeologists retrieve first treasure items from $20B 'Holy Grail' shipwreck off Colombia

Colombia has recovered the first artifacts from San José galleon, also known as the legendary "Holy Grail of shipwrecks." It ...