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A Tudor-era hull dug out of a Kent gravel quarry is filling in a crucial missing chapter of British maritime history.
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About 300,000 years ago, an early human was foraging for food in an expanse of grassland. She spied a cluster of mushrooms ...
Researchers have uncovered evidence that a weapon known as the polybolos—or multi-thrower—was used during the Roman conquest ...
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Ahead of the film adaptation’s release, Weir talked to Popular Mechanics about creating accurate sci-fi tech, protagonist ...
A study has uncovered the oldest written rejection of the Shroud of Turin, a religious relic purported to have been the linen ...
An amateur archaeologists claims to have discovered proof of what happened to the colony members who completely vanished from the site. Scott Dawson claims to have found “hammerscale,” a byproduct of ...
Before Yersinia pestis devastated Europe in the Middle Ages, the bacteria ravaged the Bronze Age for nearly two millennia.