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20 hours ago · A rare high-ranking member of the famed Terracotta Army was unearthed in the mausoleum of China’s first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi (reigned 221–210 b.c.).Qin’s tomb is protected by thousands of ...

16 hours ago · Teeth and bone recovered from Maszycka Cave, Poland. KRAKOW, POLAND—Live Science reports that evidence of cannibalism has been identified on 18,000-year-old bones from southern Poland by ...

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Lidar mapping has made finding lost cities buried deep within dense jungle much easier than it was decades ago, when archaeologists were forced to traverse thick vegetation on foot.

Feb 3, 2025 · Hand ax. BRUSSELS, BELGIUM—More than 800 Paleolithic artifacts have been recovered from a dried lake bed in Iraq’s Western Desert by researchers from the Free University of Brussels, according ...

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Cartonnage Statuette. Not every notable discovery consists of a single extraordinary artifact, a previously unknown structure, or a newly revised date for an ancient technology. Some of the most ...

Slideshow: New Neolithic Visions. In the Taş Tepeler, or Stone Mounds, of southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa Province, archaeologists have uncovered more than 20 sites dating to the Pre-Pottery ...

Nov 1, 2024 · AL-‘ULA, SAUDI ARABIA—Live Science reports that a 4,400-year-old settlement site has been discovered in western Saudi Arabia by a team of researchers led by Guillaume Charloux of the French ...