&#39;Iceman&#39; discoverer joins his find in Alpine grave
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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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The remains of a primate that could be the ancestor of humans and all the great apes is discovered.
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A German climber died of cold and his British colleague was hospitalised with hypothermia after a night in a storm on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, Italian rescue workers said.
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After a week of searching, a body of a climber lost on Oregonâs Mount Hood was found in a snow cave near the summit.
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VIENNA Austrian officials have recovered the body of a missing German climber who won fame when he found a mummified 5,300-year-old human body in the Alps in 1991.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico _ There's a new extraterrestrial suspect in the mysterious, highly debated disappearance of the woolly mammoth some 12,900 years ago. A team of two dozen scientists say the culprit was likely a comet that exploded in the atmosphere above North America.
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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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Archaeologists say they have found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece.
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Archaeologists unearth what is believed to be the first discovery of a Viking burial site in the UK.
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Search teams digging through tons of snow Sunday found the body of one of five people feared buried by a powerful avalanche in an area that skiers had been warned to avoid.
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A Bulgarian archaeologist has unearthed an ancient gold mask and a ring featuring an "Olympic" rower in what he called an unrivalled find in the study of classical antiquity.
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An ancient gold mask and a ring featuring what is believed to be an Olympic rower have been discovered by a Bulgarian archaeologist.
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An amateur Italian historian has found the preserved bodies of three Austro-Hungarian soldiers in an Alpine glacier, 86 years after they were killed in World War One.
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Attacking several tons of woolly mammoth with stone-tipped spears must have taken extraordinary courage &#151; and ancient people left paintings to prove they did it. Now, scientists are approaching mammoths in a different way, extracting DNA from their dense coats in an effort to learn more about them.
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Foreign Corresp. European scientists have recovered ice which is 900,000-years-old, the oldest ever found, in the Antarctic during research into the continent's climate.
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Scientists reconstruct a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago.
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Lake Vostok, an Antarctic freshwater lake buried by 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice, may host a diverse community of microbial life-forms, scientists say.