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Five archaeologists were ripped from terra firma by a freak tornado that whipped its way through Lincolnshire yesterday.
The archaeologists and archaeology students, working at a sand and gravel pit at Baston, were sheltering from the thunderstorm in a temporary canteen when the building w...
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Monkton Farleigh sun-disc
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'Rare sun disc' on show in Wiltshire for first time to mark solstice A rare gold sun-disc discovered 32km from Stonehenge has gone on display to mark the summer solstice. The early Bronze Age disc, thought to represent the sun, is on show for the first time at the Wiltshire Museum. Unearthed at Monkton...
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Cromlech Tumulus
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Excavating the Cromlech Tumulus on on Slievemore Mountain, on Achill Island, Ireland Cromlech Tumulus 2015: Week 1 Spoiler Read more
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Vertebrates
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96 percent of vertebrates descended from common ancestor with 'sixth sense' Although humans experience the world through five senses, sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have another sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to...
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Milk
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The ability to digest milk may have become common only relatively recently in Europe, a major study of ancient DNA shows. The analysis of genomes from 101 ancient adults suggests the gene for breaking down the lactose sugar in milk was still rare in the Bronze Age. Read more
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Jamalpur Workshop
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Jamalpur Workshop was established on the 8th day of February, 1862. Jamalpur Workshop was the first full-fledged railway workshop facilities in India, set up by the East Indian Railway. Read more
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Ossinodus pueri
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Australian fossil forces rethink on our ancestors emergence onto land A 333-million year old broken bone is causing fossil scientists to reconsider the evolution of land-dwelling vertebrate animals, says a team of palaeontologists, including QUT evolutionary biologist Dr Matthew Phillips,...
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Australopithecus deyiremeda
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Ethiopian fossils indicate new forerunner of humans In an April 29, 2015 photo provided by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selasie conducts comparative analysis of "Australopithecus deyiremeda" in his laboratory at the Cleveland Museum of Natural Hist...
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Anglo-Saxon Hoard
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An unemployed metal detection enthusiast and a Staffordshire farmer are set to become millionaires following the discovery of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure which experts are likely to value at about £3m this week. The gold and silver artefacts, which are already shedding new light on the Dark Ag...
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Oldest stone tools
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The world's oldest stone tools have been discovered, scientists report. They were unearthed from the shores of Lake Turkana in Kenya, and date to 3.3 million years ago. They are 700,000 years older than any tools found before, even pre-dating the earliest humans in the Homo genus. Read more
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Number 3440 City Of Truro
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Number 3440 City Of Truro is a Great Western Railway (GWR) 3700 (or 'City') Class 4-4-0 locomotive, designed by George Jackson Churchward and built at the GWR Swindon Works in 1903. City of Truro was timed at 8.8 seconds between two quarter-mile posts whilst hauling the "Ocean Mails" sp...
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World War II
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The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. It was signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Soviet High Command, French representative signing as witness on 7 May, and signed again by representati...
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Lokiarchaeota
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Newly found microbe is close relative of complex life A newly discovered life form could help resolve one of the most contentious conundrums in modern biology. All organisms on Earth are classified as either prokaryotes, which have simple cells, or eukaryotes, which have larger, more complex cel...
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Pharos Lighthouse
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Replica Pharos Lighthouse plans approved The feat of ancient engineering, which is also known as the Lighthouse of Alexandria, was completed around 280BC, and is estimated to have been between 110m and 130m high. The plan is to rebuild the lighthouse a few metres away from where it once stood in the c...
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Plant fossils
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Paleontologists sift Utah soil for plant fossils Paleontologists are sifting through the soil of an excavated lot in search of ancient plants, the only ones from the early Jurassic period found so far in western North America. The flora fossils date back 198 million years. "Every plant the...
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