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Archaeologists Found a Mysterious 7-Foot Statue Buried Face Down in an Ancient Roman Road
1+ week, 2+ day ago (378+ words) The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire. “It is very rare to find such monumental sculpture of this period anywhere in the Mediterranean, and this exceptionally well-preserved, unique monument casts important new light on the major arts of…...
Archaeologists Dug up 25 Turtles Carved During the Ice Age. Their Purpose Is Still a Mystery.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (279+ words) Buried in a Turkish cave for millennia, the figurines may point to a long-lost mountain cult. The 25 recently discovered, rudimentarily-carved stone turtle figurines surrounding a curved architectural feature in a cave under Turkey’s Gedikkaya Hill must have had some sort…...
Highway Construction Crew Discovers Celtic Town Full of Treasure
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (548+ words) The Celtic settlement yielded hundreds of coins, amber, jewelry, and luxury ceramics. A Celtic settlement from the second century B.C. discovered in modern-day Czech Republic has yielded an impressive haul of opulence, from hundreds of gold and silver coins to precious…...
43 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They’re Tiny Heroes.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (369+ words) It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem. It would probably be pretty alarming to learn that, in the early 1980s, scientists decided to drop off a bunch of gophers at the site of a volcanic…...
After 96 Years, Archaeologists Finally Found the Missing Half of a Legendary Statue
3+ week, 2+ day ago (277+ words) Ramesses II is whole again. Many treasures of the region’s illustrious past were known to be buried in the surrounding desert, and while Roeder’s discovery proved remarkable, the rest of the enormous statue he found remained lost to time…for…...
They Graduated from Britain’s Best University—Then Spent Years Working as Soviet Spies
3+ week, 4+ day ago (182+ words) Idealism turned to treason as the Cambridge Five fed classified secrets to the KGB for decades. “It was a slow and brain-racking process; my transition from a Socialist viewpoint to a Communist one took two years,” Philby said in his…...
A Construction Crew Was Demolishing a House—And Uncovered a $10 Million Gold Hoard
3+ week, 5+ day ago (572+ words) Forty gold bars and 4,000 coins turned up mid-renovation—and the mystery only deepens from there. The last thing construction workers expected to find while they were renovating a building in Belgium was a “We stumbled across it while carrying out…...
Archaeologists Digging up a Construction Site Just Found a Lost Roman Fortress
3+ week, 6+ day ago (296+ words) A fortified Roman camp, complete with a bakery and blacksmith’s forge, is still emerging from the soil. qHere’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Roman artisans baked bread alongside blacksmiths working at a forge within a first-century C.E....