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How did European farmers spread agriculture?

By analyzing ancient human remains, scientists have revealed that Stone Age farmers in Europe likely migrated from south to north.
Were early humans cooking their food a million years ago?

The discovery of million-year-old ash and charred bone in a South African cave suggests that human ancestors were using fire much earlier than previously thought.
Human ancestors used fire a million years ago, finds study

Ash and a charred bone unearthed in South Africa indicates that, even a million years ago, humanity's forebears had harnessed fire.
All Aztecs went to school? A lesson for Mexico.

An unearthed school shows that universal education got an early start in Mexico. Today, the system lags with the indigenous receiving less schooling than the rest of the population.
Archaeologists find world's oldest mattress

Found in a cave in South Africa, the 77,000 year old bedding was made of insect-repelling leaves and other medicinal plants.
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Scotland's millennia-old Yew tree has seen it all

The Fortingall Yew, Europe's oldest tree, has been everything from an ancient clan gathering place to a matchmaker.
Amenhotep III statue unearthed in Egypt

Amenhotep III: The largest Amenhotep III to date has been unearthed in Egypt. Amenhotep III was King Tut's grandfather.
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Image of dinosaurs living with humans? A smear, say paleontologists

Creationists say Utah petroglyphs of a dinosaur drawn by humans 6,000 years ago prove their case. Paleontologists say dinosaur "legs" are stains on the rock, not man-made drawings.
Lost city of Atlantis may be found in waters off Spain

Lost city of Atlantis: A team of researchers say they have found the Lost city of Atlantis off the coast of Spain. The city, documented only by Plato's 'dialogues,' is thought to have been hit by a massive tsunami and swallowed into the sea.
Ice Age child discovered in Alaskan wilderness

Ice Age child: The remains of a prehistoric child have been found in the woods of Alaska. The story behind the Ice Age child may help modern day Native Americans understand something new about their ancestry.
1,500-year-old church discovered by archaeologists in Israel

1,500-year-old church: The Byzantine church located southwest of Jerusalem, excavated over the last two months, will be visible only for another week before archaeologists cover it again with soil for its own protection.
9,400-year-old dog found, earliest found in Americas

9,400-year-old dog: Researchers are saying they have found a bone fragment from what they are calling the earliest confirmed domesticated dog in the Americas.
Teotihuacan ruins explored by a robot

Teotihuacan: The grainy footage shot by the robot was presented Wednesday by Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. It shows a narrow, open space left after the tunnel was intentionally closed off between A.D. 200 and 250 and filled with debris nearly to the roof.
Dead Sea Scrolls to get 'Google' treatment

Dead Sea Scrolls will get their own database, courtesy of the web search giant. The Dead Sea Scrolls are some two thousand years old.
Why Israeli-Palestinian conflicts over land turn epic

The importance of place to Jewish and Muslim identity intensifies Israeli-Palestinian conflicts over land, as illustrated by the disputed construction of a museum affiliated with the Simon Wiesenthal Center on Jerusalem's Mamilla cemetery.
Genetic study uncovers wild ass ancestor of donkey

Genetic research has confirmed has confirmed one of two wild ass ancestors for the donkey, while raising questions about the second ancestor. The research also offers further evidence domestication took place in Africa.
Stonehenge twin – 'Timberhenge' – discovered with radar imaging

Stonehenge wasn't the only mammoth circle in southern England 5,000 years ago. Using new radar imaging equipment, scientists have identified what was once a nearby circle of huge timbers.
Stonehenge twin, a wood henge, is found nearby

Stonehenge archaeologists said Thursday they have uncovered the foundations of a second circular structure only a few hundred yards from Stonehenge.
Ancient finger bowls found in Mayan tomb (bowls filled with fingers, that is)

Archaeologists in Guatemala have unearthed a 1,600-year-old tomb that is believed to be the final resting place of a Mayan king.
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Croatia's burden of buried treasure

Croatia is chockablock with the buried treasure of ancient relics. But the excavations – and the artifacts – are both a boon and a burden.
'Gladiator graveyard' discovered in England

Archaeologists at a northern English construction site have excavated dozens of headless skeletons who appear to have belonged to professional fighters.
New study says hobbit-like beings colonized island 1 million years ago

Researchers say ancestors of hobbit-like humans may have colonized an Indonesian island one million years ago.
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Egypt says Jewish slaves didn't build pyramids

Egyptian archeologists presented new evidence Monday that the people who worked on the Great Pyramids of Giza were not Jewish slaves, but paid laborers. Newly discovered tombs show construction workers were honored by being buried near the pyramids.