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1,700 years buried and forgotten: Archaeologists find thousands of coins stashed in clay jars under an ancient French homeArchaeologists in France just pulled out over 40,000 ancient coins from three clay pots hidden under someone's living room floor. And the s...
UNESCO adds France's D-Day landing beaches, Greece's Mount Olympus to World Heritage ListThe UNESCO committee, which meets in Busan through Wednesday, also inscribed the ancient Japanese capitals of Asuka and Fujiwara and South ...
UN to list more sites as 'in danger' from conflict or climate changeUNESCO members will vote on adding endangered world heritage sites next week. Biblical sites and Lebanese castles face threats from conflic...
Hidden beneath the Sahara, satellite scans uncovered 260 circular mass graves filled with cattle and human remains of a 6,000-year-old nomadic eliteNew discoveries in Eastern Sudan reveal a lost nomadic civilization. Archaeologists found 260 ancient cemeteries, showcasing large grave mo...
Under Notre Dame cathedral, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of historyAn archaeological dig beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is unearthing Roman Paris. The excavation is happening as the square is being r...
A hidden staircase in an 800-year-old French church just led archaeologists to a 400-year-old burial vaultWorkers fixing a salt problem in a French church unearthed a stunning historical timeline. Beneath the 12th-century structure, they discove...
In 1820, a farmer moved stones through ruins on a windy Greek island: A buried marble figure emerged from the rubble and became one of the world’s most famous sculpturesOn the idyllic shores of Milos in 1820, a farmer's unassuming chore of clearing stones opened the door to history when he stumbled upon the...
Tales of tunnels underneath village prove to be true, a Group of Researchers Found a Tunnel System Beneath a Village, But No One Knows Who Built ThemMysterious tunnels in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, once dismissed as legend, are now being investigated. A local society formed in 2024 found evid...
Scientists Found Tiny Arrowheads in a Central Asian Cave… But Why Do They Date Back 80,000 Years?New discoveries in Uzbekistan are challenging old ideas about human migration. Tiny stone tools, dating back 80,000 years, suggest modern h...
Ancient Engineering Unearthed: How Did Brittany’s 7,000-Year-Old Wall Survive Underwater?A massive 7,000-year-old stone wall has been found underwater off the coast of Brittany. This ancient structure is France's largest underwa...
Man digs backyard for a pool, finds gold worth ₹7 crore and gets to keep itA French man’s backyard renovation turned into a golden surprise when he discovered five gold bars and several coins worth nearly ₹7 crore ...
Canada's hidden history of oppression and justiceCanada grapples with its historical injustices as the 191st anniversary of slavery's abolition approaches. Recent discoveries of artifacts ...
200-year-old message in a bottle left by archaeologist unearthed in FranceVolunteers have discovered a 200-year-old message in a bottle at an excavation site in Normandy, France. The letter, left by archaeologist ...
Hand-sewn, 3,000-yr-old boat emerges from depths of Adriatic SeaDiscovered in the waters of Croatia's northwestern Istria peninsula, the Zambratija boat dates back to the period between late 12th and lat...
4,000-year-old rock transformed into a 'treasure map' for researchers to detect ancient sites in FranceA piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a "treasure map" for archaeologi...
57,000-yr-old engraving found at Loire Valley, FranceAccording to the findings, reported Wednesday in the American journal PLOS One, the engravings, also called finger-flutings, predate the ar...
100 years after WWI, the search for the slain still onHundreds of thousands of servicemen died in the war but only a few of those whose remains languish in the fields of northern France have be...
Notre-Dame fire anniversary: Restored cathedral to reopen in December 2024Four years after the fire, it is not clear as to what exactly caused the blaze at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. The building is now be...
- Skull surgery performed on Stone Age cow: Study
Paris, April 21 (IANS) For the first time, a definite example of cranial surgery has been found in a cow from Stone age that suggests that ...
- Neanderthals were adept at making tools, artefacts
London, Sep 21 (IANS) Neanderthals were far smarter than previously thought as researchers have confirmed that our ancient cousins were res...