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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, an Egyptian policeman walks near a pyramid in Giza, Egypt. Egypt's Antiquities Ministry on Saturday Feb. 3, 2018, announced the discovery of a 4,400-year-old tomb near the pyramids outside Cairo. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, FILE)

4,400-year-old tomb discovered

WHILE performing an excavation work, a team of archaeologists made the discovery of a 4,400-year-old tomb outside Cairo.

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Exploding King Tut’s last great secret

WILL a new survey of Tutankhamun’s tomb expose an ancient plot to erase a heretic queen from history? Archaeologists are right now digging to expose the truth.

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A lost Mayan civilisation has been revealed beneath the forests of Guatemala through the use of laser scanners. Picture: National Geographic/The Lost Maya City

Lost city found after hundreds of years

PYRAMIDS. Palaces. Temples. An incredible ancient Mayan capital — with suburbs of up to 60,000 houses — has been discovered after more than 1,000 years hidden away.

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This image provided by the Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India in January 2018 shows a sample of artifacts from the Middle Palaeolithic era found at the Attirampakkam archaeological site in southern India. The discovery of stone tools at the site shows a style that has been associated elsewhere with our species. They were fashioned from 385,000 years ago to 172,000 years ago, showing evidence of continuity and development over that time. That starting point is a lot earlier than scientists generally think Homo sapiens left Africa. (Kumar Akhilesh, Shanti Pappu/Sharma Centre for Heritage Education, India via AP)

Stone tools stun archaeologists

A DISCOVERY in India of stone tools made between 385,000 to 172,000 years ago has confused some scientists and excited others.

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Quality control operator of the Spanish publishing outfit Siloe Luis Miguel works on cloning the illustrated codex hand-written manuscript Voynich in Burgos on August 9, 2016. The so-called Voynich Manuscript, a small unassuming book usually stored in a Yale University vault, is one of the most mysterious books in the world, that a small publishing house in northern Spain has finally secured the right to clone. The precious document containing elegant writing and strange drawings of unidentified plants and naked women is believed to have been written six centuries ago in an unknown or coded language that no one -- not even the best cryptographers -- has ever cracked. / AFP PHOTO / CESAR MANSO / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARIANNE BARRIAUX -

Ancient manuscript decoded by AI

ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been used to decode the Voynich Manuscript, which was found to be written in ancient Hebrew.

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The 3,200-year-old colossal statue of King Ramses II is seen during its transfer to the main entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo's twin city Giza on January 25, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED

Egypt moves iconic pharaoh statue

THE ancient, 80-ton statue of Ramses II has been transported to a new location in a grand ceremony attended by Egyptian officials and foreign diplomats.

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Mysterious Dead Sea Scrolls deciphered

EXPERTS have finally cracked the secrets of two scrolls that were originally written more than two millennia ago.

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The 'Two Brothers' mummies. Picture: The University of Manchester

4,000-year-old Egyptian mystery solved

EXPERTS at the University of Manchester have solved a mystery about a pair of mummies dubbed the “Two Brothers”, which dates all the way back to 1800BC.

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HDHWE2 Great Pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu, located at Giza and the Sphinx. Egypt. Picture: Alamy

‘Throne’ hidden deep inside Great Pyramid

EXPERTS believe the throne of a famous pharaoh is hidden in a secret chamber deep inside the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

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Disease that nearly wiped out a country

AFTER 500 years scientists have solved a mystery about a disease outbreak considered one of the deadliest epidemics in human history.

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Preserved dinosaur eggs have been found in China. Picture: East China News Service

Perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs found

CONSTRUCTION workers have stumbled across perfectly preserved 130 million-year-old dinosaur eggs on the site of school construction in China.

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Dino footprint damage ‘callous’

VANDALS have destroyed a 115 million-year-old dinosaur footprint at Bunurong Marine National Park, near South Gippsland.

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Egyptian archaeological technicians restore a mummy wrapped in linen, found at the newly discovered

Mummy discovered in lost tomb

A MUMMY has been discovered and identified in a tomb previously left untouched by archaeologists in Luxor, Egypt

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Ancient note found in Jesus statue’s butt

A MYSTERIOUS note found stuffed inside an ancient Jesus statue’s butt may be a 300-year-old time capsule.

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Guests look at a 4.6m x 8.8m life-sized projected image of

Lost scroll reveals Jesus’ prophecies

IT’S just a scrap of papyrus. But these Greek scribbles reportedly offer a peek at a lost book of the Bible — and the special advice Jesus gave his brother, James.

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TOPSHOT - A picture taken on March 21, 2017 at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem shows the renovated Edicule of the Tomb of Jesus (where his body is believed to have been laid). The tomb is being unveiled again following nine months of restoration work that will be highlighted at a much anticipated ceremony on March 22, 2017. The shrine, which includes a 19th-century ornate edicule or shrine surrounding the tomb, is a key part of the Church in Jerusalem's Old City. / AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX

Is this where Jesus was buried?

SECRETS have been revealed about a tomb in Jerusalem which is now widely considered to be the resting place of Jesus Christ. New scientific testing shows it is older than previously thought.

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A diver is pictured over a corner of the ancient walls of a submerged fortress, found under Lake Van near Turkey's border with Iran. Picture: IHA

Has the real Atlantis been found?

IT’s the stuff of myth and legend: A mysterious 3000-year-old castle belonging to a lost civilisation has been discovered — under a lake.

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Historic site . . . the caves at Qumran - Picture: SUPPLIED

Dead Sea Scroll mystery unravels

THE scrolls have gripped the world for decades. Now a 2200-year-old graveyard is casting new light on the cult that compiled them.

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Fig 30 3925-43 - Al Wadi Pendant 260 (APAAME_20171027_DLK-0891)A group of 19 Keyholes face one another on either side of a track to which they are aligned at right angles. The overall length of this group is c. 130 m. Picture: David Kennedy

Puzzling ancient structures found

GIGANTIC ancient structures have been discovered in the middle of the desert. An Australian man went searching for their meaning.

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10/04/1997 PIRATE: Skeleton of aboriginal man which was found at Lake Mungo in 1974, ANU research team released finding 05/1999 as result of modern dating techniques that showed indigenous Australians arrived on continent 20,000 years earlier than previously accepted.

Remains hold secrets of First Australians

AT A time when Europe was largely populated by Neanderthals, there was an ancient culture of far more sophistication Down Under.

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The excavations at the Gadachrili Gora site in Georgia. Picture: Stephen Batiuk

We’ve been getting boozy for 8000 years

LOOKING for a nice white? Turns out 5980BC was a very good year. A new discovery suggests winemaking has an even longer history than previously thought.

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The seal artist's attention to detail and use of stylized faces make the Pylos Combat Agate one of the finest works of prehistoric Greek art ever discovered. Picture: The Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

Ancient Greek warrior’s miraculous gem

IT’s tiny. Its intricacy is invisible to the naked eye. And the level of detail deftly carved into this ancient gem is at least 1000 years ahead of its time.

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Nan Madol - deserted island in the Pacific believed to be haunted. Picture: Science Channel

’Haunted’ city found floating in ocean

RESEARCHERS have been puzzled by a virtually uninhabitable island, which locals refuse to visit because they believe they will die.

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Scientists have found a hidden chamber in Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza

Hidden chamber found in Great Pyramid

A MYSTERIOUS void has been discovered in the Great Pyramid. Scientists hope it will unlock the ancient wonder’s secrets.

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The fossilized remains of what are believed to be great ape teeth Picture: Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz

Discovery could ‘rewrite’ history

EVERYTHING we know about human history could be about to change following the discovery of 9.7 million-year-old remains.

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Who built mystery ‘hellgates’?

THEY’RE in the middle of nowhere. They could be 9000 years old. So why did an ancient people build some 400 mysterious stone ‘gates’ around bubbling lava domes?

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This undated photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities shows the remains of a recently discovered temple for King Ramses II, in Abusir, southwest of Cairo. The temple may shed light on the life of the pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty, over 3,200 years ago. Mustafa Waziri, the head of agency, has told The Associated Press on Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, that the discovery was made by an Egyptian-Czech mission in the village of Abusir near the step pyramid of Saqqara. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)

Ancient temple discovered in Egypt

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have found the remains of an ancient temple belonging the greatest, most celebrated and powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire.

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Santa Claus’ ancient tomb discovered

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have stumbled on a tomb beneath the ruins of a church they believe contains the remains of the real-life Santa Claus. Sorry, kids.

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Great Pyramid mystery finally solved

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have finally uncovered proof of how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid using 170,000 tonnes of stone.

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A Viking holds up a 'sunstone' crystal to help navigate a dark ocean. Picture: Vikings/History Channel

Vikings’ secret to success unearthed

EXACTLY how the Vikings navigated the stormy, often foggy, waters is a mystery. But new tests are proving ancient legends to be true.

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