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‘Death Jar’ dating back 1,200 years with generations of human remains inside discovered

Archaeologists uncover remains of 37 people inside single giant stone jar at…

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High status Roman woman found buried in decorated coffin under HOSPITAL

A high-status Roman woman buried in a decorated lead coffin under a…

Karl Grafton Karl Grafton

Archaeologists uncover ‘illegal’ whisky still hidden in remote gully for over 200 years

Archaeologists have unearthed a 200-year-old illegal whisky still hidden in a remote…

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DNA matches identify four sailors from tragic Franklin expedition

DNA analysis has identified four more sailors from the doomed 1845 Franklin…

Karl Grafton Karl Grafton

Two children found buried together in ‘unusual’ Anglo-Saxon grave

DNA tests have confirmed two Anglo-Saxon children buried side by side 1,500…

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Ancient mummy found with copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside abdomen

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient mummy with a passage from Homer's Iliad…

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Killer bug found in 700-year-old mummy’s tooth

Scientists have reconstructed a 700-year-old strep infection genome from a medieval tooth,…

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Tourist spots world’s oldest sea crocodile fossil on Brit beach after mistaking it for wood

A tourist searching for fossils on the Jurassic Coast accidentally discovered a…

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Scientists baffled by mysterious creature found six-miles deep in marine trench

Scientists found a bizarre ghostly creature nearly six miles deep in a…

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