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Top 10 scuba diving destinations in India
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Nearly 60 properties from India on Tentative List for inclusion on World Heritage List, says govt
The mound-burial system of the Ahom dynasty in Assam -- 'Moidams' -- was, on July 26, inscribed on …
PTI
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Neanderthals built their own fireplaces where they used to cook food on a regular basis, similar to modern humans: study
Archaeologists have long been aware of the Neanderthals' use of fire. However, the crux of the matt…
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Melting ice in Norway revealed a 4,000-year-old arrow that was likely lost while ancient hunters targeted reindeer — but is now a 'bull's eye for archaeology'
In recent years, the ice around the mountain in Norway has melted, exposing more ground to research…
Sebastian Cahill
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Researchers investigating a medieval burial site found Christian symbols tattooed on one of the bodies' feet
The rare tattoo was found on the foot of a person buried near a medieval monastery in Sudan, archeo…
Paul Squire
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Budget 2020 allocates a unique part of budget to Ministry of Culture for Archaeological sites
“Five archaeological sites in Haryana, UP, Assam, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, to be developed with o…
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Fire damages over 177 ancient monoliths on Chile's Easter Island: Unesco
A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at least 177 Moai or sacred monolit…
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Hundreds of ancient mammoth skeletons were found buried under the site of a future airport in Mexico
Archaeologists in Mexico dug up 200 mammoth skeletons at the site of a planned airport. The finding…
Susie Neilson
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Ancient poop contains new clues about feasts eaten at the construction of Stonehenge more than 4,500 years ago
The coprolite was found in Durrington Walls, a settlement a few miles away from Stonehenge where th…
Marianne Guenot
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Archaeologists discovered a rare prehistoric drum decorating the grave of 3 children who had been 'cuddling' for 5,000 years
The remains of three children, aged 3 to 12, whose bones had been intertwined for millennia were fo…
Joshua Zitser
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Psychedelic beer served at intimate dinner parties helped an ancient empire in the Andes rule for centuries, study finds
According to a new archaeological study, leaders of the Wari empire that ruled Peru added hallucino…
Joshua Zitser
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Archaeologists used lasers to find nearly 500 Mesoamerican monuments hidden in the Mexican jungle
Data collected from the air with lasers led to the discovery of hundreds of ancient sites in Mexico…
Aylin Woodward
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The world has called the archaeological wonder, Machu Picchu, the wrong name for over a century, a new report finds
It may have originally been called "Picchu" or "Huayna Picchu," meaning new or young mountain peak …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell
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Earliest evidence of tobacco used by hunter-gatherers in the US West 12,000 years ago, discovered by archaeologists
The discovery of charred seeds in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert indicates Neolithic man used tobacc…
Joshua Zitser
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An amateur diver found a 3-foot sword off the Israeli coast - and filmed his discovery. It dates back to the Crusades.
Just 650 feet off Israel's Carmel coast, scuba diver Shlomi Katzin discovered a 900-year-old iron s…
Aylin Woodward
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A luxury 2,700-year-old private toilet was discovered in Jerusalem, and researchers say it may have come complete with air fresheners
It has a modern-looking "toilet seat" and may have come complete with ancient air fresheners, the I…