Scientists discover whale which is 25 years OLDER than America

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2,700-Year-Old Town From One of Ancient World's Major Powers Revealed by Archaeologists

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Grunge: The truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world

The truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world
The Sea Peoples would be a bit miffed to learn that today, thousands of years after they terrorized the ancient world, almost no one remembers them. But the Sea Peoples did exist, and yes their name sounds kind of stupid. Here's the truth about the Sea Peoples who terrorized the ancient world.

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Archaeologists find evidence of Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem -- as told in the Bible

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Master plan of the universe revealed in new galaxy maps

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A Decades-Old Computer Science Puzzle Was Solved in Two Pages

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Mysterious medieval warrior found in Viking graveyard wasn't actually a Viking

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Ancient Egypt: Underwater Archaeologists Uncover Destroyed Temple in the Sunken City of Heracleion

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Road-tripping couple was murdered near Canada's notorious "highway of tears"

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Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley: New clue could explain its mysterious disappearance - CNN

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Business Insider: 15 times the heirs to massive fortunes disappeared under mysterious or disturbing circumstances

15 times the heirs to massive fortunes disappeared under mysterious or disturbing circumstances
The harrowing 1973 abduction of John Paul Getty III has inspired numerous films and books. Kidnappers looking for a major payout will often target the heirs of wealthy individuals. Some famous abductions have ended in tragedy when the abductors killed their victim. In other cases, the kidnapped heir survived their ordeal. A handful of heirs have simply never been found. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Namely, having a familial link to an uber-wealthy person could prompt an

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Horizon magazine: Island cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation

Island cores unravel mysteries of ancient Maltese civilisation
The Ġgantija temples of Malta are among the earliest free-standing buildings known. Sedimentary records may also reveal past ecosystems on Tenerife. The mysteries of an ancient civilisation that survived for more than a millennium on the island of Malta – and then collapsed within two generations – have been unravelled by archaeologists who analysed pollen buried deep within the earth and ancient DNA from skulls and bones. It's part of a field of work that is expanding the use of archaeological

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Smithsonian Magazine: Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines

Ancient DNA Sheds New Light on the Biblical Philistines
A team of scientists sequenced genomes from people who lived in a port city on the Mediterranean coast of Israel between the 12th and 8th centuries B.C.

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One of the World’s Most Ancient Cities Experienced Surprisingly Modern Problems

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This Bizarre Whale Is a Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid

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Newsweek: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Backed up by Quantum Physics Experiment

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle Backed up by Quantum Physics Experiment
June 17, 2019 Quantum particles are not really just particles…they are also waves. The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there's something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain. Intrinsic uncertainty was central to the way German physicist Werner Heisenberg, one of the originators of modern quantum mechanics, presented the theory. He put forward the Uncertainty

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Maybe we are alone after all: Planets that could sustain alien life much rarer than thought

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Do Math in Your Head With These Mental Math Tricks

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Scientists Find Possible Traces of 'Lost' Stone Age Settlement Beneath the North Sea

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National Geographic: Human Origins 101

Human Origins 101
Learn about the over 20 early human species that belong in our family tree.

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Strange seismic waves rippled around Earth. Now we may know why.

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This Full Body Dumbbell Workout Shreds Your Muscles in 30 Minutes

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Ancient 3,000-year-old tablet suggests Biblical king may have existed

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Mysterious Denisovan human fossil found in Tibet

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CNN: The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs

The stories behind 10 of the world's earliest known photographs
The curator of "Photographs: An Early Album of the World" at the Louvre Abu Dhabi sheds light on 10 rare images from the 1800s.

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Diary of Livingstone's Intrepid African Attendant Jacob Wainwright Digitized

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Fox News: Ancient tomb of mysterious man discovered in Egypt

Ancient tomb of mysterious man discovered in Egypt
Archaeologists recently unearthed a tomb in Egypt belonging to a mysterious man known as Tjt, dating all the way back to Ancient Egypt.

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Smithsonian: Archaeologists Discover Some of the Amazon's Oldest Human Burials

Archaeologists Discover Some of the Amazon's Oldest Human Burials
As early as 10,000 years ago, humans created settlements on elevated forest mounds in parts of southwestern Amazonia

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Ancient Origins: The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts

The origins of human beings according to ancient Sumerian texts
Sumer, or the 'land of civilized kings', flourished in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, around 4500 BC. Sumerians created an advanced civilization with its own system of elaborate language and writing, architecture and arts, astronomy and mathematics. Read more Section: News Human Origins Folklore Read Later

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Ancient Origins: 3,900-Year-Old Lost Inscriptions Surface at the Ancient Egyptian Amethyst Mines

3,900-Year-Old Lost Inscriptions Surface at the Ancient Egyptian Amethyst Mines
Archaeologists working in the timeworn deserts of Egypt have uncovered more than '100 ancient inscriptions' at Wadi el-Hudi, where ancient miners once collected amethysts which were believed to be imbued with supernatural powers. Read more Section: News History & Archaeology

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Ancient pee helps archaeologists track the rise of farming

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National Geographic: Pig brains partially revived hours after death. Here's what it means for people.

Pig brains partially revived hours after death. Here's what it means for people.
In a feat sure to fire up ethical and philosophical debate, a new system has restored circulation and oxygen flow to a dead mammal brain.

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Could Neanderthals Create Art? | Science

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The Hominins We've Been Calling Denisovans Are More Diverse Than Previously Thought

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Ancient Egypt: Archaeologists Discover Hidden Palace Marked With Symbols of Ramesses the Great

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Confirmed: New phase of matter is solid and liquid at same time

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/04/new-phase-matter-confirmed-solid-and-liquid-same-time-potassium-physics/

Ancient Lost City of Mountain People Unearthed at Gates of Mesopotamia's First Empire

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Evidence for ancient religion discovered in Lake Titicaca

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Mysterious 4,000-year-old lost city discovered

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Fossils may capture the day the dinosaurs died. Here's what you should know.

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Fossils may capture the day the dinosaurs died. Here's what you should know.

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Which Came First, Vengeful Gods or Complex Civilizations?

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National Geographic: Surprising DNA found in ancient people from southern Europe

Surprising DNA found in ancient people from southern Europe
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A study of 8,000 years of genetics from Spain and Portugal yields a surprisingly complex picture of the inhabitants' ancestry. Read the full story

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Ars Technica: Scientists think they’ve solved one mystery of Easter Island’s statues

Scientists think they've solved one mystery of Easter Island's statues
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Rapa Nui islanders survived by building strong communities around limited resources. Read the full story

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How a Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Disease Helped Scientists Create a New Early Diagnosis Method

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Gizmodo: Humans Built Complex Societies Before They Invented Moral Gods

Humans Built Complex Societies Before They Invented Moral Gods
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The appearance of moralizing gods in religion occurred after—and not before—the emergence of large, complex societies, according to new research. This finding upturns conventional thinking on the matter, in which moralizing gods are typically cited as a prerequisite for social complexity. Read the full story

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Mariner's Astrolabe Recovered From Shipwreck Is the World's Oldest

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More than one reality exists, shocking study says

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NPR: Massive U.S. machines that hunt for ripples in space-time just got an upgrade

Massive U.S. machines that hunt for ripples in space-time just got an upgrade
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The twin sites in the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory are about to go back online. New hardware should make them able to sense more colliding black holes and other cosmic events. Read the full story

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Birds and Humans Are Depicted Together in This Rare Scene From 12000 Years Ago

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Pi Day is a lie: celebrate tau, the true circle constant instead - The Verge

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Newly Discovered Letters Show a Different Side of Mary, Queen of Scots

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A Medieval Arabic Medical Text Was Translated into Irish, Discovery Shows

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BuzzFeed: Don't Read These Jokes If Your Life Is Put Together, They're Not For You

Don't Read These Jokes If Your Life Is Put Together, They're Not For You
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"If a demon possessed me I'd just be like OK take it from here good luck man" Read the full story

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Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor

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Gizmodo: An Unknown Force is Blocking Car Key Fobs In This Canadian Town

An Unknown Force is Blocking Car Key Fobs In This Canadian Town
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For weeks, customers of a grocery store in the small town of Carstairs, Alberta, have been plagued by a mysterious something that has hindered them from driving their cars. Read the full story

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We May Have Figured Out Why Alexander The Great Didn't Rot For Six Days, And It's Pretty Horrifying | IFLScience

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