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Peru wildfire threatens Machu Picchu as remote location hampers efforts to control blaze
Twenty hectares near Inca ruins affected in blaze started by farmers burning grass before sowing cropsPeruvian...
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Gold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth
Discovery in the Klondike ranks as the most complete mummified mammal found in the AmericasIt was...
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Inca-era tomb unearthed beneath home in Peru’s capital
500-year old structure, found in working-class area of Lima, thought to contain remains of society elitesScientists...
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Mystery of Waterloo’s dead soldiers to be re-examined by academics
Modern techniques to test traditional explanation that most bones from 1815 battle were ground into powder...
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Wreck of Royal Navy warship sunk in 1682 identified off Norfolk coast
HMS Gloucester could be the ‘most historic maritime discovery since the raising of the Marie Rose’The...
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65,000 year-old ‘Swiss Army knife’ proves ancient humans shared knowledge, research says
The prehistoric artefacts, all made to a similar shape and template, are found in enormous numbers...
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Briton given 15 years in Iraqi jail for smuggling antiquities to appeal verdict
Jim Fitton, 66, hoped for short suspended sentence after collecting fragments during archaeology tourLawyers for a...
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Trove of ancient Egyptian coffins and statues found at cemetery near Cairo
Painted wooden coffins and bronze statues of deities dating to 500BC found by archaeologists in SaqqaraArchaeologists...
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Archaeologists discover ancient Mayan city at Mexico construction site
Researchers estimate the city, which features the Mayan Puuc style of architecture, to have been occupied...
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Human skull found by Minnesota kayakers 8,000 years old, experts say
Skull discovered in drought-depleted Minnesota River last summer to be returned to Native American officialsNative American...
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Ministers accused of abandoning UK geologist at risk of execution in Iraq
Family ‘baffled’ by Foreign Office after Jim Fitton arrested for taking pottery pieces from ancient siteThe...
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New clues shed light on ‘pivotal’ moment in the great Pacific migration
Archaeologists say find of tools and bones changes our understanding of the Lapita people, the first...
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Machu Picchu: Inca site ‘has gone by wrong name for over 100 years’
Peruvian historian and US archaeologist say the pre-Columbian town was called Huayna Picchu by the Inca...
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Part of the way to Stonehenge to be restored to how ancient pilgrims saw it
National Trust acquires two areas of land near monument that it will turn back into chalk...
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Equality was key to ancient Mexican city’s success, study suggests
At its peak Monte Albán was home to 17,000 people, despite a lack of water supplies...
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Roman boat that sank in Mediterranean 1,700 years ago gives up its treasures
Finds from fourth-century wreck ‘perfectly preserved’ just 2m below the surface off one of Mallorca’s busiest...