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United Kingdom Sep 11, 2004 Tony Wheeler The Paykan car swerved in to the roadside.
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COYO, Chile  - Deep within the wind-swept Atacama desert in northern Chile, the remnants of a forgotten civilization rise from the sand.
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Archaeologists find evidence that Romans settled at a 5,000-year-old landmark man-made hill.
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A new look at climate conditions 55 million years ago shows that the Earth is more sensitive to small changes than previously believed.
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By Jayne Clark  For the first time, global climate change has joined political conflict and development pressures as an underlying threat to cultural heritage sites, as cataloged by the World Monuments Fund on its biennial list of the 100 most endangered places.
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By DEEPTI HAJELA  NEW YORK - In the beginning were the bones. Fossils dating back hundreds of thousands- even millions- of years used by anthropologists to trace how the human species evolved.
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SALISBURY, England -- Whoever built Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old circle of megaliths that towers over green fields in southern England and lures a million visitors a year, could not have planned for the automobile.
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After 2,000 years, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World are finally getting an update. Voting ends Friday night  -  at new7wonders.com  -  on these 21 choices
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The scientific world has just been given an amazing new insight into the complexities of human evolution. A team of Indonesian and Australian scientists has discovered fossils of a new human
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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in southern England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time that the giant stone slabs were being erected 4,600 years ago.
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Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a species of dwarf people, dubbed Homo floresiensis.
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There&#39;s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists who try to understand the long and puzzling history of human evolution by studying fossil evidence from millions of years ago.
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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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Join archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson as he takes you through a huge prehistoric settlement that's believed to have housed the builders of Stonehenge.
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Evidence is mounting that    the time-weathered red planet was once a warm and water-rich world. And a Mars    awash with water gives rise to that globe possibly being fit for habitation    in its past - and perhaps a distant dwelling for life today.
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SALISBURY, England  - Whoever built Stonehenge,  the 5,000-year-old circle of megaliths that towers over green  fields in southern England and lures a million visitors a year,  couldn't have planned for the automobile.