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In 1996, two students wading in the Columbia found a skull, and an American origins battle beganIn 1996, the unearthing of ancient human remains near Kennewick, Washington, sparked a firestorm of discussion. Initially perceived as an e...
A freshman found a tiny stone on a Seattle campus, and what looked like an ordinary rock, uncovered ancient Native American history from thousands of years agoA small stone point found by a student at the University of Washington in 2009 unearthed a significant archaeological discovery. Experts fr...
A riverside skeleton changed what researchers thought they knew about how the first Americans wereThe controversial Kennewick Man skeleton, initially thought to be from a separate migration due to skull morphology, was genetically linked...
9/11 terror attacks: This documentary on India was at Osama Bin Laden's Pakistani residenceThe US will mark 24 years since the 9/11 attacks, when hijackers crashed planes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania fiel...
Pharaoh’s tomb discovered in Egypt for first time since Tutankhamun’s in 1922King Thutmose II's tomb has been discovered by a British-Egyptian team of researchers from Theban Necropolis' Western Valleys, which is sit...
Ancient bones in German cave challenge timeline of Homo sapiens' arrival in EuropeBone fragments discovered in Ilsenhohle cave in central Germany have rewritten the early history of Homo sapiens in Europe. The findings, d...
An ancient people's message on a tiny ivory comb: Get rid of hair and beard liceThe comb dates to around 1700 BC, which is one of the oldest examples of the writing of Canaanites.
How archaeologists across the country are unearthing the food of ancestors to shed light on the evolution of eatingThe average Indian’s interest in the archaeology of food was nudged out of its stupor in 2010 when archaeologists discovered the world’s ol...
Why monuments would be worse off without the World Heritage statusThe World Heritage status does not mean much financially nor does it give UNESCO serious powers, but monuments and national parks would be ...
Robotic submarine discovers centuries-old shipwreck in USThe wreck appears to date back to the late 18th or early 19th century, a time when a young US was expanding its trade with the rest of the ...
US scientists discover 18th century shipwreckDuke University scientist Cindy Van Dover led the expedition and found the wreck in mile-deep waters using underwater vehicles and sonar.
2600-year-old Mayan city with unique grid layout foundThe city, which contains flat-topped pyramids, was in use between roughly 600 BC and 300 BC, a time when the first cities were being constr...