Greek archaeologists find 2,500-year-old pomegranates preserved in ...
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A scientific dig has uncovered four pomegranates believed to be 2,500 years old preserved inside a woven basket nestled in a bronze vessel, a Greek archaeologist said Friday.
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Archaeologists have reported finding what could be the earliest evidence for domestication of manioc in the Americas.
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Imagine tossing a top-notch laptop into the sea, leaving scientists from a foreign culture to scratch their heads over its corroded remains centuries later. A Roman shipmaster inadvertently did something just like it 2,000 years ago off southern Greece, experts said late Thursday.
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Ancient orchid pollen trapped in amber shows that the plants were blooming at the time of the dinosaurs.
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An international team of scientists says it was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, some 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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A 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found built into the walls of a city under Mount Olympus, home of Greece's ancient gods, archaeologists said on Thursday. The headless marble statue was discovered last year during excavations in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles southwest of Thessaloniki.
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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 digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
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Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thursday.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a 3,500-year-old corpse as female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, scientists are still analyzing the DNA to try to back up the claim aired on TV.
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If legend is to be believed, the end of a victorious war was behind Pheidippides&#39; trek from Marathon to Athens 2,500 years ago.
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ARANDA, Albania - Encrusted with tiny shells and smelling strongly of the sea, a 2,400-year-old Greek jar lies in a saltwater bath in Durres Museum, on Albania's Adriatic coast.
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A study of 7,000-year-old pig remains gives new insight into the migration of Middle Eastern people into Europe.
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A team of scientists says it was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.
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ATHENS, Greece -- The first road cycling race since these Olympics began was on a course circling the 2,500-year-old Parthenon on the Acropolis.