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ancient history

How to move mountains - or at the very least 19,000 lb rocks - by yourself

Submitted by Zinger on January 5, 2007 - 14:08. | | | | |

A YouTube video of a retired construction worker who has worked out how to move very large blocks of

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Early sketch of Stonehenge found

Submitted by Moose on December 3, 2006 - 11:04. | | |

The earliest known sketch of Stonehenge found in a 15th century manuscript

Ancient African Texts Document Fantastic Written History

Submitted by Zinger on November 16, 2006 - 12:14. | | | |

150,000 brittle manuscripts, with more yet to be discovered, show a golden age in Timbuktu; scripts

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What's More Valuable than gold? Shoelace tags, apparently

Submitted by Zinger on October 3, 2006 - 20:42. | | |

A British study finds the device that prevents shoelaces from fraying was more valuable than gold to

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Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project

Submitted by Zinger on October 1, 2006 - 14:50. | |

Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,

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2500 year old mummy found in... Mongolia

Submitted by Zinger on August 25, 2006 - 07:50. | | | |

Mummy has blond hair, tattoos and a felt hat.

Ancient Flowers found in Egyptian coffin

Submitted by Zinger on July 3, 2006 - 20:11. | | | | | |

A sarcophagus found in the famous Valley of the Kings has revealed desiccated flower garlands "never

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A simple oil patch survey may change Canadian pre-history

Submitted by Zinger on June 15, 2006 - 20:42. | | | | |

Each hole in the now world-class site sheds new light on Alberta's — and Canada's — past. And wi

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World's oldest astronomy computer

Submitted by Zinger on June 6, 2006 - 22:23. | | | |

The size of a shoebox, a mysterious bronze device scooped out of a Roman-era shipwreck at the dawn

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Chinese in Cape Breton, Canada?

Submitted by Zinger on May 19, 2006 - 19:00. | | | |

I'd love to see reader comments on this: A former Yale University professor has written a book claim

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Ancient astronomical observatories - as seen from space

Submitted by Zinger on May 19, 2006 - 14:23. | | | | | |

In one of history's nice ironies, we have turned our space-based observatories toward earth to photo

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English, Welsh, two genetically different people

Submitted by PJ on May 16, 2006 - 08:33. | | | | | | |

Gene scientists claim to have found proof that the Welsh are the "true" Britons.

'Amazon Stonehenge' found in Brazil

Submitted by Zinger on May 14, 2006 - 13:10. | | | | |

Archaeologists discovered a pre-colonial astrological observatory possibly 2,000 years old in the Am

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Myth

Submitted by PJ on May 12, 2006 - 11:12. | | | | | | | | |

It is a familiar story, and it’s codswallop.

The light of reason and civilisation was almost sn

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100 new geoglyphs in Peru

Submitted by Zinger on April 22, 2006 - 13:24. | | |

Peru's Nasca plateau is apparently home to at least 100 more geoglyphs - drawings visible only from

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