Archaeology

Derek McLennan is being sued by the Church of Scotland

Church in battle over $3.6m Viking haul

Church of Scotland is suing for a share of a record $3.6 million haul of Viking relics found on its land by a man with a metal detector.

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The skeletal remains are believed to be Général César Charles Etienne Gudin: Facebook/Pierre Malinowski

Famous skeleton discovered under building

A general from one of the most famous failed campaigns of all time has been discovered by archaeologists under a dance floor in Russia.

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Screen Grabs from Atlantic Productions/ BBC Footage of the Titanic. The first people to dive down to the Titanic in nearly 15 years say some of the wreck is deteriorating rapidly. Must Credit BBC / Atlantic Productions

Eerie new images of Titanic reveal sad fate

For the first time in nearly 15 years, footage has been captured of the wreck of the Titanic — and things aren’t looking good for the legendary ship.

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TAHF3F The London Stone, a historic 900-year-old stone on Cannon Street, London, UK

Mystery stone baffles scientists

An artefact housed in a small crypt in London is said to have mystical powers. Yet scientists have no idea where it came from.

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Led by Shimon Gibson and James Tabor, the excavations at Mt. Zion in Jerusalem have unearthed a first-century C.E. mansion that may have belonged to aristocrats or a member of the wealthy Jewish priestly families. Photo: Shimon Gibson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

New evidence proves Bible story’s true

The bible’s tale of King Nebuchadnezzar’s troops storming Jerusalem details an epic disaster. Now, evidence has emerged supporting the story.

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Cranial deformation in Bougainville. Photograph by T.J. Macmahon, ca. 1919. Picture: Wellcome Collection

Mystery of these weirdly-shaped skulls

Bizarre morphed skulls have been uncovered around the world — but what do they mean? The truth is stranger than fiction.

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2003. Image from the Discovery Channel TV show 'The Assassination of King Tut', which shows the face of the real King Tutankhamun. Tutankhamen.

King Tut’s curse fears re-emerge

King Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus has been moved for the first time in 100 years but many believe the remains could unleash a deadly curse.

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This handout picture released on July 10, 2019, by Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen shows a reconstruction and computer model of part of a skull named Apidima 2, discovered in a Greek cave, which was determined in a study to have the characteristics of Neanderthal man. - A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind's arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years, researchers said on July 10, 2019. Two fossilized but badly damaged human skulls unearthed from a layer of in a Greek cave in the 1970s, indentified as Neanderthal, were re-examined by an iternational team of researchers using state-of-the art computer modelling and uranium dating. One of them, named Apidima 2 after the cave in which the pair were found, proved to be 170,000 years old and belong to a Neanderthal. But, to the shock of scientists, the skull named Apidima 1 pre-dated Apidima 2 by as much as 40,000 years, and was determined to be that of a Homo Sapiens. (Photo by Katerina HARVATI / Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / EBERHARD KARLS UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN / KATERINA HARVATI" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Skull ‘oldest fossil’ found outside Africa

A 210,000-year-old skull has been identified as the earliest modern human remains found outside Africa, putting the clock back on mankind’s arrival in Europe by more than 150,000 years.

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Secret that could solve Nefertiti mystery

Egyptologists are on the verge of solving one of history’s biggest mysteries — the location of Queen Nefertiti’s elusive tomb.

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Slave ship Amistad at anchor before sailing in late 1930s.HistoricalShipping

America’s disgusting secret unearthed

The penalty for importing slaves was death. But they did it anyway. They beached and burnt the last slave ship — Clotilda — to hide the evidence. It almost worked.

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‘Most mysterious text’ finally deciphered

The Voynich manuscript, dubbed “world’s most mysterious text” has finally been decoded — and it reveals sex tips and abortion advice.

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Real ‘Red Wedding’ site excavated

Game of Thrones’ most shocking scene was inspired by history. Now archaeologists hope to unearth more about the massacre that gave us The Red Wedding.

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Coin that could change Australia’s history

The discovery of an ancient coin in the Northern Territory could mean a key piece of Australian history is completely wrong.

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Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition. Melbourne Museum. gold statue of Tutankhamun as King of Lower Egypt

Why King Tut was a fraud

Why do King Tut’s famous golden statues have breasts? Turns out, it’s not him. It’s his sisters. They ruled Egypt before him and were written out of history, until now.

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Vatican’s ‘exorcism uni’ is booming

Catholic, Lutheran and Protestant priests have put aside hundreds of years of bitter history and flocked to Rome in a bid to learn ‘best practice’ techniques to battle Satan head-on.

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TOPSHOT - A handout image made available by Florent Detroit and taken on March 15, 2019 compares the fossil teeth of the newly discovered species Homo Luzonesis and that of Home Erectus and the Homo Sapiens unearthed during the excavation in the Callao Cave in the north of Luzon Island, in northern Philippines, where an international multidisciplinary team discovered a new hominin species, Homo Luzonensis. - An international multidisciplinary team, co-led by a MNHN senior lecturer of the H & E department, Florent Détroit, discovered a new hominin species, Homo Luzonensis, during the excavation of Callao Cave, situated on Luzon island, Northern Philippines. Published in the journal Nature, the study of the fossils dated to 50 to 67 000 years highlights a singular mosaic of morphological characteristics that differentiates Homo luzonensis from other species of the genus Homo and underlines the major role played by Island Southeast Asia in the evolutionary history of hominines. (Photo by Florent DETROIT / Florent DETROIT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Florent DETROIT / Florent DETROIT" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Fossils of extinct ‘Hobbit’ species found

Scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown type of human that proves our evolution is more complicated than we knew.

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**NO SALES**AUGUST 28, 2007 : A sculptor's rendering of the hominid Australopithecus afarensis is displayed as part of an exhibition that includes the 3.2 million year old fossilized remains of "Lucy", the most complete example of the species, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science in Houston, Texas, 28/08/07. The exhibition is the first for the fossil outside of Ethiopia and has generated criticism among the museum community and others that believe the fossil is too fragile to be moved from it's home country. Pic AFP / Getty Images.USA

New species of human discovered

Fossils reveal a new species of ancient humans that lived in South East Asia around the time our own species was spreading from Africa.

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Egyptian mummy ‘surrounded by gold’

A sarcophagus containing an Egyptian high priest has been opened on live TV and archaeologists are excited about what was inside.

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This picture taken on February 2, 2019 shows newly-discovered mummies wrapped in linen found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC) at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt's southern Minya province, about 340 kilometres south of the capital Cairo. - Egypt's Antiquities Minister said on February 2 that a joint mission from the ministry and Minya University's Archaeological Studies Research Centre found upon a collection of Ptolemaic burial chambers engraved in rock and filled with a large number of mummies of different sizes and genders. The minister added that the newly discovered tombs may be a familial grave for a family from the elite middle class. (Photo by MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

Ancient sarcophagus to be opened on TV

The identity of a mummy inside an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus has been a mystery for millennia. It will now be opened on live TV.

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This photo taken and handout on March 29, 2019 by the University of Kansas,shows a partially exposed, perfectly preserved 66-million-year-old fish fossil uncovered by Mr. DePalma and his colleagues.The site appears to date to the day 66 million years ago when a meteor hit Earth, killing nearly all life on the planet. (Photo by Robert DePalma / Kansas University / AFP)

Secret dinosaur graveyard dividing a field

It is shaping up to be the biggest palaeontology story of the century but there are some doubts about just how world-changing this incredible site is.

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Mr Douglas Milera (left) and Professor Peter Buckskin are seen during a repatriation ceremony marking the return of 37 South Australian ancestral remains from the Natural History Museum in London, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AAP Image/Supplied by The Natural History Museum London, Aimee McArdle) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

Historic win as UK hands back remains

It’s about time. London’s Natural History Museum has agreed to hand over the remains of 37 indigenous people.

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Ship discovery solves ancient puzzle

More than 2500 years ago, ancient Greek historian Herodotus described a strange ship. Now archaeologists have found it.

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Aerial View of Stonehenge ca 3000 B.C. to 1000B.C. Wiltshire, England, UK Photo: Getty Images Fee applies, single use, must credit

Stonehenge study reveals ancient secrets

Stonehenge has long been a source of fascination among archaeologists, and new research shows the social significance of the famous site.

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The worst time to be alive — ever

Think 2018 was terrible? Worried about 2019? Think again. Researchers have identified the single worst year in history. And it sounds very familiar …

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Handout picture released on March 4, 2019 by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) showing Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda inside the Balamku Cave in the archaeological site of Chichen Itza, Mexico. - Archaeologists have discovered a cave filled with hundreds of artifacts beneath the ruins of the Mayan city of Chichen Itza in Mexico, the lead researcher on the project De Anda says, describing the find as "incredible." (Photo by Karla Ortega / INAH / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / INAH / KARLA ORTEGA" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Cave of relics found under Mayan ruins

Archaeologists have discovered a cave filled with hundreds of “incredible” untouched artefacts beneath the ruins of a Mayan city.

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NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: (FILE PHOTO) A fiery blasts rocks the south tower of the World Trade Center as the hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the building September 11, 2001 in New York City. Almost two years after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, the New York Port Authority is releasing transcripts on August 28, 2003 of emergency calls made from inside the twin towers. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

World famous conspiracy theorist tells all

David Icke isn’t interested in stories. The master of conspiracies only wants to know the truth. He believes he has found it.

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A stone structure known as a dolmen: It may have been the burial chamber of a once-buried structure. Picture: Nick Brooks and Joanne Clarke

Sahara civilisation’s lost secret

Mysterious stone structures abandoned in the Sahara desert could contain clues to an event that rocks the Earth every 20,000 years.

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‘Bourgeois family’ found mummified

Egyptian mummies, thought to be a large family and their pets, dating back more than 2000 years have been discovered in an underground tomb.

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Tutankhamun rises again in full glory

After a nine-year preservation project within King Tut’s tomb, repairs are complete and the unmasked boy king is back on display.

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Bad weather behind mass child sacrifice

An archaeologist was shocked to have come across a sacrificial mass grave but his theory behind the event is even more unbelievable.

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