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Punk Rock Dinosaur Rewrites Prehistoric Armor Evolution

Scientists have discovered that the world’s oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate,

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Three Colossal Statues Rise from Egypt's Sunken City After 2,000 Years

In a landmark archaeological achievement, Egypt has successfully recovered three monumental statues from the Mediterranean seabed of Abu Qir Bay,

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When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in

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Neanderthal Workshop Reveals Advanced Tool Maintenance 70,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists in Poland have unearthed compelling evidence of sophisticated Neanderthal behavior at a 70,000-year-old workshop site in the Zwoleńka River

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Cowboy Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the

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Revolutionary Discovery Reveals Viking Silver Hoard's Global Trade Links

New research reveals that a spectacular Viking silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire demonstrates the far-reaching trade connections between medieval

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Historic Spanish Privateer ‘La Fortuna’ Discovered Among Colonial Shipwrecks

Maritime archaeologists from East Carolina University have uncovered a remarkable collection of four colonial-era shipwrecks along the historic Brunswick Town

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Medieval Knight's Grave Unearthed Beneath Ice Cream Parlor

Archaeologists in Gdansk, Poland have made an extraordinary discovery beneath the floor of a beloved ice cream parlor, unearthing a

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Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship’s Doctor

In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable