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Lost biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

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Yamagata University Institute of Nasca

AI helps uncover hundreds of unknown ancient symbols hidden in Peru’s Nazca Desert

Scientists discover hidden ancient forest on treeless island

Woolly rhino found preserved in Russian permafrost after 32,000 years

DNA from 3,600-year-old cheese sequenced by scientists

Thousands of bones and hundreds of weapons reveal grisly insights into a 3,250-year-old battle

Ancient remains of Egyptian army barracks and a bronze sword unearthed by archaeologists

New evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 07: The ancient neolithic monument of Stonehenge near Amesbury is viewed from a hot air balloon on September 7, 2016 in Wiltshire, England. To mark the 30th anniversary of Stonehenge becoming a World Heritage Site, English Heritage has launched a competition offering members of the public the chance of a hot balloon ride which allows the chance to see a unique view of Stonehenge within in a wider prehistoric landscape but also the see the recent changes to its setting in recent years including the removal of the A344 and the old car park. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

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The search for the origin of Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone intensifies

The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why

Discovery of Thorin in Grotte Mandrin.

Courtesy Ludovic Slimak

Cave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say

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Terryl Whitlatch

Fossils reveal that some pterosaurs soared like vultures, while others flapped their wings

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The skull of a newly discovered species of human - Homo Floresiensis. Believed to be living 18,000 years ago, barely a metre tall with a skull the size of a grapefruit. The partial skeleton was discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores - 27 Oct 2004
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The remarkable fossil that radically changed our understanding of the human story

Sue the T. rex strikes a pose in its old location at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. (Antonio Perez /Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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What is a mass extinction, and why do scientists think we’re in the middle of one?

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Natural History Museum/Alamy Stock Photo

Megalosaurus, the first ever dinosaur discovery

Babylonian clay model showing a nude couple engaged in kissing. Date: 1800 BC

The Trustees of the British Museum

Humanity’s earliest recorded kiss adds new twist to the history of locking lips

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University of Aberdeen

‘Enthusiastic amateur’ finds ‘remarkable’ Pictish ring buried for more than 1,000 years

This image, taken in July, shows the bow of the Titanic with a large section of the deck railing now missing.

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New Titanic photos show major decay to legendary wreck

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Ancient humans built a bridge inside a cave on Mallorca nearly 6,000 years ago

Jaime Bran Sarmiento

Prehistoric sea cow was eaten by a croc and a shark, newly discovered fossil reveals

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Southern Methodist University

Matching sets of dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean

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Kirk Murray
University of Iowa

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Miguel Ángel Blanco de la Rubia

Neolithic engineers built megalithic monument with stones that weighed as much as two jumbo jets

Circa 1610, English born colonial administrator Baron Thomas West De La Warr (1577 - 1618). (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)

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Long-hidden family scandal in Jamestown colony revealed 400 years later by ancient DNA

Courtesy Eddie Templeton

He stumbled onto a large tusk in a Mississippi creek. It turned out to be a first-of-its-kind discovery

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Archaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet following an earthquake

Naval battle ship HMS Hawke before it was sunk in World War I.

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Wreck of torpedoed World War I warship found in ‘amazing’ condition

WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. November 16. Aerial photograph of the neolithic, Stonehenge. This UNESCO World Heritage Site dates back to 3100 BC, it is located 2 miles west of Amesbury, 7 miles North of Salisbury Plan. (Photograph by David Goddard/Getty Images)

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Century-old theory of where Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from overturned by new study

Archaeologists have uncovered the bodies of a man and a woman with their treasure in Pompeii.

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Pompeii archaeologists find bodies of man and woman – and their treasure

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New excavations reveal missing pieces of intriguing artifact at Sutton Hoo

Daric with Kneeling King, Achaemenid Persian, 550–331 BC, 450–330 BC, Gold, Sardis, Manisa province, Turkey, Asia, Coins & currency, metalwork, 8.34 grams. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Ancient pot of gold unearthed in Turkey hints at ‘gravest misfortune,’ researchers say

Newly discovered fossils shed light on the origins of curious ‘hobbit’ humans

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