Jamestown skeleton still a mystery
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Bones discovered four years ago at the site of America's first permanent English settlement could be those of Jamestown's unsung founder, a knight or a captain.
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Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians were last night locked in dispute over an 800-year-old war crime and a box of 1,600-year-old bones that was meant to have brought them a giant step closer to reunification.
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* What makes the clay vessels from ancient Peru whistle when you pour out their contents? **And how old was the &quot;Magdalenian Girl&quot; when she died in southwestern France 15,000 years ago, leaving behind a remarkably preserved skeleton?
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Archeologists say a prehistoric skeleton and campsite discovered on the muddy shore of Lake Travis could be between 700 and 2,000 years old.
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Archaeologists believe they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world's most famous iceman, met his end.
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Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.
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They died young and, by the looks of it, in love. Two 5,000-year-old skeletons found locked in an embrace near the city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale "Romeo and Juliet" have sparked theories the remains of a far more ancient love story have been found.
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MIAMI -- For almost six months, Fort Myers police have puzzled over the eight skeletons discovered in the spring in a forested wetland.
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They say that on a January night you can still hear the hooves of Oliver Cromwell's slaughtered cavalry echoing under the cobbles of Tombland -- the most haunted part of the ancient east English city of Norwich.
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DNA tests on British men shed light on a mystery surrounding the ancestry of Thomas Jefferson, America's third president.
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Researchers studying DNA from 500-year-old bone slivers said Friday that preliminary data suggests Christopher Columbus might be buried in Spain, rather than in a rival tomb in the Dominican Republic.
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Archeologists say they're 100 percent certain that the remains are those of a woman who was as mysterious in death as she was eccentric in life.
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By Michael Grabell, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 9--Police and religious experts say that a pot containing a human skull, found near the bodies of a missing couple last week, appears to be a shrine of the Afro-Caribbean religion Palo Mayombe.
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 28--Jamestown will just have to wait to go up in space.   With the launch of the shuttle Atlantis delayed by hail damage, a handful of commemorative Jamestown 2007 items have been grounded for at least a couple of months.
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Archeologists discovered the mummified remains of a doctor they believe lived more than 4,000 years ago and who was buried along with metal surgical tools.
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BEAUFORT, NC -- Underwater archeologists have found another cannon from the wreckage of what they believe was the flagship of the notorious pirate Blackbeard.
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LUXOR, Egypt -- A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb yesterday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural causes that killed Egypt's boy pharaoh 3,000 years ago?