archaeology
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Mining Firm CEO Resigns After Razing an Australian Indigenous Site
Three executives from the mining company that detonated a 46,000-year-old Indigenous Australian heritage site to expand an iron ore mine — and later insisted that it did nothing wrong — are leaving the company.
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Marine Archaeologists Reveal Submerged Wooden Structure From The Stone Age
Archaeologists have spotted an 8000-year-old wooden platform in the waters off southern Great Britain.
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New Analysis Confirms Oldest Mariner’s Astrolabe Ever Found
Scientists have confirmed that a gunmetal disk uncovered off the coast of Oman is the oldest known mariner’s astrolabe, according to a new study.
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Ancient Black Plague Found In Swedish Gravesite
Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history — the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague — an ancient strain of the bacterium responsible for these scourges, Yersinia pestis, may have already wreaked havoc among Neolithic European communities over 5000 years ago, according to a controversial new study.