Burial clue to early urban strife
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Archaeologists working in Syria find the remains of youths probably killed in a fierce battle 6,000 years ago.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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LIMA, Peru  - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday.
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Experts have determined that the remains of about 60 people found at a construction site in central Germany were from long before World War II, police said Friday.
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Archaeologists say they have discovered a stone block inscribed with the earliest writing in the New World.
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The 1.77-million-year-old remains of three adults and a teenager unearthed in the Caucasus point to a far greater variation in early humans than once suspected, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Modern imaging techniques have revealed some new information about the earliest biblical passage ever found in ancient artifacts.
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Archaeologists have discovered extensive remains of what is believed to be an ancient marketplace with shops and a religious center at the southern edge of Athens, the Culture Ministry said Friday. The finds, in the coastal neighborhood of Voula, date from the 4th or 5th century B.C.
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Archaeologists and other experts are refuting filmmakers' assertions that burial boxes from the 1st century held the remains of Jesus and his family.
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The bodies of 12 people killed by police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna are exhumed to find out how they died.
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The signs of the scuffle were fresh but it is a struggle that has gone on for tens of millions of years.
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Investigators have begun to excavate at the site of a mass grave in northern Iraq which is believed to contain up to 300 bodies. The site at Hatra, south of Mosul, is believed to contain the bodies of Kurdish
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PAJU, South Korea  - After nearly 400 years, a few killings and scorned pleas from a king, two powerful clans have settled one of the longest-standing feuds in Korean history, over ancestral burial grounds.
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A skull fragment found in a 400-year-old trash pit at Jamestown contains evidence of the earliest known surgery - and autopsy - in the English colonies in America, researchers say.
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Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered the human skeleton of what they conclude is the earliest known gunshot victim in the New World.
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Nov. 15 - American researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have discovered the remains of the legendary city on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Investigations of prehistoric burial sites in Europe show that the region's population may have practiced ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study.