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Archaeologists Dug Under an Ancient Greek City—and Found a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement
On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...
90-foot underwater ‘pyramid’ could predate Egyptian landmarks and Stonehenge by thousands of years — and rewrite history, scientists say
The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...
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Chris Tomlin's new song resurrects the world's oldest known hymn
That song would turn out to be one of the oldest Christian hymns ever found. “We have about 50 examples of musical ...
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Earthquake in Myanmar Exposes Ancient Royal Structure
ARTnews reports that a massive earthquake that struck parts of southeast Asia revealed the ruins of an ancient structure near ...
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Mystery ruins turn out to be ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ ancient find in North Macedonia
Photo from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt Under a grassy field in southeastern Europe sat some mysterious ancient ruins. Archaeologists had known about the site for decades but ...
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Secrets of the Maya: Deciphering Tikal
the oldest known intact Maya mural to date, was discovered in an 80-foot-high pyramid at the ruins of San Bartolo, a ceremonial site in Guatemala. Still,Tikal stands out. “The buildings at Tikal ...
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El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya
Efforts to preserve the basin’s ancient ruins go hand in hand with conserving ... scientists had been studying the better-known Maya sites in Mesoamerica—such as Palenque and Copán—for ...
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Forget the Pyramids of Giza. A local tipped me off to a little-known site of ancient ruins that's equally fascinating and never crowded
Instead, it was ancient ruins near Egypt's southern border that I didn't even know existed before I got there. After I visited the pyramids in Giza, I took an overnight train to Aswan, a small ...
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2,200-year-old shackles found at gold mining village in Egypt. ‘The harsh reality’
The ruins, known as Ghozza, include “residential blocks ... An aerial view of Sector 44 in Ghozza where two sets of ancient shackles were found. Photo from M. Kacičnik, Institut français ...