Mud tomb found near oldest Egypt pyramid
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A mud brick tomb dating back more than 4,000 years has been discovered near Egypt's most ancient pyramid in the Saqqara complex south of Cairo, according to an antiquities official. The tomb was located by an Egyptian-Australian mission, Egypt's antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, announced Monday.
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Paleontologists working in Ethiopia have discovered the remains of at least nine primitive human ancestors that are up to 4.5 million years old.
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A stone slab found bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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A stone slab bearing 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars has been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
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Archaeologists hailed one of the most important finds in Egyptian history on Wednesday after a broken tooth identified the 3,500-year-old mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the most powerful female pharaoh.
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A tooth found in a relic box led archaeologists to identify a long-overlooked mummy as that of Egypt's most powerful female pharoah &#151; possibly the most significant find since King Tutankhamun's tomb was uncovered in 1922, experts said Wednesday.
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An American excavation mission has unearthed eight granaries that are relics from agricultural life in the Neolithic era, the Egyptian culture minister said in a statement Tuesday.
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_ The James ossuary, a burial box bearing the inscription &quot;James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.&quot;. _ The Yoash inscription, a tablet from about the 9th century BC, inscribed with 15 lines of ancient Hebrew
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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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Archaeologists unveiled Sunday the tomb of a member of a powerful family that governed a swath of western Egypt about 2,500 years ago, along with a dozen recently discovered mummies from Roman times.
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Researchers find a cache of fossils in Ethiopia belonging to early human ancestors.
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A 2,400-year-old golden mask that once belonged to a Thracian king was unearthed in a timber-lined tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, archaeologists said Monday.
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Archaeologists have unearthed a treasure of gold and silver in a Thracian tomb in Bulgaria, calling it a unique find from classical antiquity.
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A stone slab bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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Egypt&#39;s antiquities chief on Thursday revealed a 2,500-year-old hidden tomb under the shadow of one of Giza&#39;s three giant pyramids, containing 400 pinkie-finger-sized statues and six coffin-sized niches carved into granite rock.
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Archeologists unveiled Tuesday the tombs of a Pharaonic butler and scribe that had been buried in the sand for more than 3,000 years.
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ATHENS, Greece - Archeologists have discovered ancient graves near Ancient Olympia, the hallowed site where the Olympic games were born in 776 BC, the Culture Ministry said Thursday.