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A Construction Crew Was Renovating a Soccer Field—and Found the Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
When construction workers started churning up skeletal remains, a project to renovate a soccer field outside Vienna, Austria, ...
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6,500-year-old hunting weapons found in Texas cave are among the oldest known in North America
Archaeologists in Texas have discovered a cache of ancient hunting weapons, including the remains of poison darts, that is ...
Ancient artifacts made of volcanic glass keep turning up in Canada. But how?
Obsidian does not naturally occur in Alberta where the artifacts are being unearthed at Early Prehistoric archaeological ...
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Discovery of 1800-Year-Old Silver Amulet Referencing Jesus In Latin Could Rewrite History of Christianity
This silver amulet, long buried in the earth, now stands to rewrite the story of how Christianity emerged and spread across ...
Ancient Ten Commandments fragment of 2,000-year-old manuscript to go on display at Reagan Library
The "Dead Sea Scrolls" exhibit, announced at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, features ancient Jewish ...
Mass grave of the Roman empire is found under a Vienna soccer field
Under a soccer field in a Vienna neighborhood along the Danube River, archaeologists have found a mass grave dating to the era when the Roman Empire was battling Germanic tribes almost 2,000 years ago ...
Mass Grave of 150 Roman Soldiers Found Under Vienna Sports Field
Sometime between the mid-first century and early second century CE, Roman legionaries clashed with Germanic fighters near the ...
Ancient Hunting Kit Is Found in West Texas
The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting ...
Everything We Ask of Art Is in These Marbles
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...