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May 02

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Old buried ships unearth this city’s seafaring past

In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, as the city of Alexandria, Virginia, develops new construction projects, a team of archaeologists is on hand to help preserve a particularly remarkable discovery: three ships from the 1700s hidden in the…

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Nov 28

Thanks to a particle accelerator, we can see inside this ancient mummy

By Fedor Kossakovski

On Monday, a team of scientists carted the mummy of a five-year-old girl off for a 24-hour session with a particle accelerator.

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Nov 02

How cosmic rays spotted a hidden ‘void’ within the Great Pyramid — and why we still don’t know what’s inside

By Rashmi Shivni

It's the first big structure found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza since the Middle Ages.

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Jun 10

Ancient fossils from Morocco mess up modern human origins

By Kate Wong, Scientific American

The findings may push back the origin of our species by more than 100,000 years and challenge leading ideas about where and how our lineage evolved.

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Apr 26

Analysis: A new study says settlers arrived in the Americas 130,000 years ago. Should we believe it?

By Nsikan Akpan

An archaeological site near San Diego suggests humans arrived in America more than 100,000 years before previously thought.

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Apr 12

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Reduced to rubble by ISIS, archaeologists see a new day for ancient city of Nimrud

By Marcia Biggs

When the Islamic State militant group captured parts of Northern Iraq in 2014, it declared war on the ancient city of Nimrud. Though reclaimed by Iraqi forces last November, the ruins have been forever changed, the victim of massive destruction.

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Apr 05

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As ISIS loses ground, scholars return to beloved historical sites

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The spread of the Islamic State militants and other extremist groups across the Middle East and North Africa forced international archaeologists to abandon dozens of beloved historical sites like Mosul and Palmyra. But as ISIS begins to lose momentum and…

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Apr 02

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Could the remains of Queen Nefertiti be hidden behind King Tut’s tomb?

By Ivette Feliciano

Archaeologists in Egypt have completed the first phase of a new search for King Tut's tomb. The question at hand: Could the tomb contain the undiscovered burial place of Queen Nefertiti? NewsHour's Ivette Feliciano reports.

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Apr 01

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Freed from ISIS, Palmyra’s treasured ruins ‘have blood on them’

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The Syrian Army has reclaimed Palmyra from the Islamic State group, dealing a major setback to the militants. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on the state of the ancient city, home to a sprawling set of Roman ruins…

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Jan 28

Ancient mammoth bones discovered under Oregon State’s stadium

By Cassandra Profita, EarthFix

An expansion project at Oregon State University’s Reser Stadium has uncovered ancient mammoth bones under the football field’s end zone.

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