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Archaeologists in Jordan say they have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age templeArchaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said Wednesday. The head ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - An intact Roman lantern made of bronze, believed by experts to be the only one of its kind in Britain, has been unearthed in a field by a metal-detecting enthusiast. The unique artifact which dates from between the ...

Israeli archaeologists say ancient shards of flint might be world's oldest disposable cutleryIsraeli archaeologists believe thousands of ancient shards of flint found scattered around a fire pit in a cave near Tel Aviv might be the world's oldest known disposable knives. Dating ...

Inert torpedo found at Philadelphia construction site near long-gone shipyardA police bomb squad had to be called to a Philadelphia construction site after someone found an old, inert torpedo. PennDOT spokesman Charles Metzger says a transportation department archaeological team found two men ...

A high-tech expedition that aims to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic has begun exploring the ocean floor where the ship sank nearly one hundred years ago, the crew said Thursday. Sonar onboard an automated submersible vehicle combined ...

Oetzi, the 5,300-year-old "Iceman", may not have died at the site in the Italian Alps where he was found 19 years ago, but was only ceremonially buried there, according to a new theory revealed on Thursday. Until now, archaeologists thought Oetzi, whose ...

It's a rare day when a mayor balks at proposals that his town be entered on the World Heritage List next to such illustrious sites as the Taj Mahal But Mayor Eugen Furdui of Rosia Montana -- a picturesque Carpathian mountain village ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 3,500-year-old settlement in one of Egypt's desert oases that predates earlier cities by a millennium, the Ministry of Culture said Wednesday. The Yale University mission excavating in Umm El-Kharga Oasis, one of ...

Dust-covered miners criss-cross Sudan's Nubian desert, absorbed by the drone of the pan-shaped metal detectors with which they scour the ground in search of gold. The desert, about 500 kilometres (310 miles) northeast of Khartoum, draws thousands of fortune seekers, some of ...

A high-tech expedition that aims to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic, nearly a hundred years after the fabled ship sank in the Atlantic, set sail from Canada on Monday. "At 8:38 pm (0038 GMT Tuesday) on a ...

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Topic: Archaeology

Jordan unearths 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple

Rare Roman lantern found in UK farmer's field

Israel researchers find ancient disposable cutlery

Torpedo found at Philadelphia construction site

Mapping of 'Titanic' wreck begins

Oetzi, the Iceman, was ceremonially buried: archaeologist

Romanian mayor prefers gold to UNESCO World Heritage

Archaeologists uncover 3,500-year-old Egypt city

Sudan gold miners vie for desert riches

'Titanic' mapping expedition sets sail

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