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Bronze Age
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One of Western Europe's earliest known urban societies may have sown the seeds of its own downfall, a study suggests. Mystery surrounded the fall of the Bronze Age Argaric people in south-east Spain - Europe's driest area. Data suggests the early civilisation exhausted precious natural resource...
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Altamira caves
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Spain's Altamira caves reopen for a day Spain's famous Altamira caves are briefly being opened to the public, for the first time in 12 years. Five elderly Spaniards chosen in a draw can marvel at its ice-age paintings of bison, bulls and other animals. The visit, including time accessing the caves, w...
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Bronze Age rock art
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Rare Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art in Ross-shire A rare example of prehistoric rock art has been uncovered in the Highlands. Archaeologists made the discovery while moving a boulder decorated with ancient cup and ring marks to a new location in Ross-shire. When they turned the stone over they fou...
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New Britain
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New Britain, or Niu Briten, is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago (named after Otto von Bismarck) of Papua New Guinea. William Dampier became the first known European to visit New Britain on 27 February 1700: he dubbed the islan...
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Saddle Ridge Hoard
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Buried gold coin stash 'worth $10m' A California couple found a stash of gold coins buried on their property last year valued at as much as $10m (Ł6m), rare coin dealers have said. The 1,427 coins, which date from 1847-1894, were never circulated and are in mint condition, numismatist David Hall told...
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La Cotte de St Brelade
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Jersey site that was last Neanderthal home is studied An ice age site said to be one of the last known places Neanderthals lived is being studied to assess storm damage. La Cotte has been investigated since the late 19th Century and has produced a number of finds including hundreds of thousands of Nean...
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The Great Los Angeles Air Raid (1942)
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The Battle of Los Angeles, also known as The Great Los Angeles Air Raid, is the name given by contemporary sources to the rumoured enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942 over Los Angeles, California
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Apollo of Gaza
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The Apollo of Gaza: One fisherman's amazing catch A statue thought to be an ancient bronze of Apollo, Greek God of poetry and love, has dropped off the radar after being found in the sea off Gaza last summer and surfacing briefly on eBay. It is 2,500 years old and priceless. Read more
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South Shetland Islands
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The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands. Captain William Smith in the British merchant brig Williams, while sailing to Valparaiso, Chile in 1819 deviated from his route south of Cape Horn, and on 19 February sighted Williams Point, the northeast extremity of Livingston Island...
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The world's fifth largest reserves of gold and copper have been discovered in Chaghi area in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province.
According to the Director General of Provincial Department of Mineralogy, Maqbool Ahmed, two Canadian and Chilean multinational companies were granted l...
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Qesem Cave
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300,000-Year-Old Hearth Found in the Qesem Cave Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use it for their daily needs? That question - one which is central to the subject of the rise of human culture - is still hotly debated....
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The world's oldest temple, dating back around 12,000 years, is located on Göbekli Hill in Turkey's province of Sanliurfa.
The temple was discovered by German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt.
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4th Portuguese India Armada
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Devil's Footprints phenomenon (1855)
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The Devil's Footprints is a name given to a phenomenon that occurred in Devon, England, in 1855: after a light snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appeared in the snow, following primarily straight lines for over 100 miles. Read more
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Bohdan Paczynski
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Bohdan Paczynski, renowned astrophysicist, dies at age 67 Princeton astrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, whose insights into the nature of celestial phenomena guided many developments in his field, died April 19 after a three-year battle with brain cancer. He was 67. Paczynski's pioneering effo...
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