For over 2,300 years, researchers and historians are trying to locate the Alexander the Great Tomb, one of the world's ...

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A remarkably preserved dinosaur fossil, dubbed a "mummy," has been unearthed in Canada. This nodosaur specimen, over 110 million years old, boasts intact skin, armor, and even internal organs, ...

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Just a little more than three decades ago, Europe’s most famous mummy was discovered lying face-down in the ice, on the edge of a lake nearly two miles high in the Ötztal Alps bordering Austria and ...

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You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

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Below the whole group and at the lowest level before reaching the skin, was a bib-like Collarette composed of fine green faience & gold bead matting having a zigzag pattern.…This bib covers the whole ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.