Ice-Age Ivory Flute Found in German Cave
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A 35,000-year-old flute made from a woolly mammoth's ivory tusk has been unearthed in a German cave by archaeologists, the University of Tuebingen said on Friday.
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Many large mammals were wiped out in the last Ice Age but the Eurasian giant deer managed to survive, scientists said on Wednesday.
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An engraving thought to be 10,000 years old has been uncovered in a cave, British researchers said Monday.
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Norwegian scientists report finding a  treasure trove  of fossils belonging to giant sea reptiles that once roamed the Arctic sea about 150 million years ago.Comment
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For 13 years, mountaineer Helmut Simon had basked in the glory of his unique encounter with history. In 1991, the 67-year-old German discovered Otzi the Iceman, the perfectly preserved body of a Neolithic
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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Scientists have discovered a tiny species of ancient human that lived 18,000 years ago on an isolated island east of the Java Sea -- a prehistoric hunter in a &quot;lost world&quot; of giant lizards and miniature elephants.
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An ancient tree trunk unearthed by a landslide in southeastern Switzerland nearly two years ago is more than 28 centuries old, local authorities said Thursday.
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A team of experts has unearthed an 800-year-old cellar under a central Berlin car park which they say dates the city back to the 12th century, earlier than previously thought.
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Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England
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A detailed survey of ancient cave carvings at a site first discovered last year in Nottinghamshire, England, reveals the etchings may be some of most elaborate Ice Age art ever found.
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An ancient skull from South Africa  and carved tools and ornaments from Russia paint a rare picture  of the time when modern humans migrated out of Africa to  colonize Europe, researchers reported on Thursday.
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A team of experts has unearthed an  800-year-old cellar under a central Berlin car park which they  say dates the city back to the 12th century, earlier than  previously thought.
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A whale caught off the Alaskan coast had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it had survived a similar hunt â more than a century ago.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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Scientists describe a baby mammoth found almost intact in the permafrost of north-western Siberia.