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Dec 7, 2020
An incredible underwater roundabout is set to open in the remote Faroe Islands.
The Eysturoyar tunnel network is almost 7 miles long and runs beneath Skálafjørður...
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Nov 20, 2020
The sun set for the last time this year in the remote Alaskan city of Utqiaġvik on Wednesday, marking the start of a 66-day period of “polar night.”
“At 1:30pm...
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Nov 4, 2020
Archaeologists in Spain are continuing their search for the missing bones of “Red Hugh,” a 16th-century Irish chieftain who is said to be buried in the city of...
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Oct 23, 2020
A U.S. Navy sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor has been identified and is set to be buried in Kentucky.
Navy Fireman 2nd Class Martin D. Young was on the USS Oklahoma when...
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Oct 19, 2020
A 12-year-old boy in Canada has found fossils that paleontologists have hailed as a “significant” dinosaur discovery.
The discovery was made at Horseshoe Canyon in the...
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Oct 12, 2020
An extremely rare Roman coin commemorating the assassination of Julius Caesar has surfaced and may be worth millions of dollars, according to coin experts.
“It was made in 42...
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Oct 2, 2020
A 2,000-year-old mikveh, or ritual bath, has been discovered in Israel’s Galilee region.
The mikveh is part of an ancient Jewish farmstead discovered in Lower Galilee during an...
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Sep 21, 2020
Archaeologists have identified the wreck of a 19th-century slave ship off Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.
The ship is the first from the Maya slave trade to be discovered,...
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Sep 14, 2020
Divers in the Baltic have discovered the well-preserved wreck of a 17th-century Dutch merchant ship.
The Finnish Badewanne diving team was searching for first and second world war...
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Sep 3, 2020
Workers made a stunning discovery when they were renovating a fountain in the Belgian city of Verviers. The heart of a 19th-century mayor was found in a metal box entombed in the...
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Jul 17, 2020
An abandoned decaying oil tanker in the Red Sea could spill four times as much oil as the devastating Exxon Valdez disaster, the U.N. has warned.
Fears of an environmental,...
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Jun 29, 2020
Researchers have shed new light on the fossil remains of a huge bear-sized marsupial that once roamed Australia.
The partial skull and most of the skeleton were found in central...
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Jun 22, 2020
A long-forgotten Civil War map has recently been rediscovered, shedding new light on the bloody aftermath of the battle of Antietam.
Some 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or...
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Jun 12, 2020
The wreck of a high-speed patrol boat commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II has been discovered in New York’s Harlem River.
Remnants of PT-59 have been dredged up...
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Jun 2, 2020
Archaeologists in Spain are searching for the bones of Red Hugh O’Donnell, a 16th-century Irish chieftain who fought English rule in Ireland and died in exile.
Born into a...
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May 29, 2020
A stunning Roman mosaic has been uncovered beneath a vineyard in Northern Italy.
The mosaic was first discovered over a century ago, according to a statement released by officials in...
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May 21, 2020
A salvage firm has received approval from a judge in Virginia to remove the telegraph machine from the famous Titanic wreck that was used to send distress signals when the liner sank...
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May 15, 2020
A rare coin from an ancient Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire has been discovered in Jerusalem.
The Bar Kokhba revolt, which lasted about five years, took place around 132 C.E....
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May 4, 2020
The skeletons of three 16th-century African slaves recovered from a mass grave in Mexico City are shedding new light on the early colonial-era slave trade.
The remains were found in...
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May 1, 2020
Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the mummy of a teenager who died about 3,600 years ago.
In a Facebook post, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism explained that...
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Apr 29, 2020
Scientists have revealed “the most dangerous place in the history of planet earth.”
An international team of paleontologists says that 100 million years ago, ferocious...
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Apr 6, 2020
Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered.
The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected...
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Mar 25, 2020
The wrecks of two wooden boats, one of which may be more than 100 years old, have been uncovered on a beach in northern Florida.
In a Facebook post, the St. Augustine Lighthouse and...
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Mar 9, 2020
An extremely rare 1854 $5 gold coin could sell for millions of dollars when it is auctioned this month.
The 1854-S half eagle coin was struck in April 1854 one day after the opening...
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Feb 26, 2020
A logbook and gun camera photos that belonged to a World War I pilot have been found in a U.K. barn.
The incredible artifacts were found in a box that had...
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Jan 31, 2020
A stained vest said to have been worn by King Charles I when he was beheaded in 1649 is set to go on display in London. The King's execution is a key moment in British...