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On September 12, 1940, a dog in France stumbled upon one of the most remarkable archaeological finds of the 20th century. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...

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Today, the Sahara is a 3.6-million-square-mile expanse of blistering sand, sweeping dunes, and barren rock. It defines the very concept of an inhospitable wasteland. Yet, hidden deep within the arid ...

A diver just found 8,000-year-old human remains in a flooded Mexican cave, and they may hold the secrets of an ancient ...

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(at the end of the last Ice Age), the bones could be even older. Archaeologists are rushing to find what they can, as the building of the Maya Train system threatens cenotes and other submerged ...