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  Derwin Fritts

  

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  8,000-Year-Old Fortress Discovered In Siberia Is World's Oldest

  iflscience.com

  Ancient hunter-gatherers in Siberia’s Lower Ob’ region may have built the world’s very first fortress on the banks of a river. Whether these …

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  Derwin Fritts

  

  2 days ago

  Archaeologists Believe They’ve Discovered A Stone Age Cemetery Near The Arctic Circle

  allthatsinteresting.com - Austin Harvey

  The site is 6,500 years old and could hold as many as 200 graves — but any evidence of human skeletons has disappeared.The post Archaeologists …

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  Derwin Fritts

  

  3 days ago

  Is The Intriguing Underwater Structure Beneath Lake Michigan Man-Made Or A Natural Formation? - Ancient Pages

  ancientpages.com - AncientPages.com

  Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient underwater ruins are as important and intriguing as anything prehistoric we discovered on the surface of the …

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  Derwin Fritts

  

  2 days ago

  Inside The Book Of Kells, The Stunningly Illuminated Gospels Displayed In Dublin’s Trinity College Library

  allthatsinteresting.com - Erin Kelly

  Created by monks in medieval Scotland, the exquisitely illustrated Book of Kells is widely regarded as the "chief treasure of the Western world."The …

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  Derwin Fritts

  

  2 days ago

  Divers Found Cargo That Might Just Lead to a 'Mind-Blowing' Neolithic Shipwreck

  Popular Mechanics - Tim Newcomb

  The discovery could become "one of the top five underwater strikes of all time." Obsidian was the gold of the Stone Age. So, when a series of obsidian blocks have been located off the coast of Capri, authorities began saying that the “worked obsidian cores” could have been the precious cargo a …

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  Derwin Fritts

  

  3 days ago

  Huge tomb — filled with treasures — sat untouched for more than 2,100 years. Until now

  bradenton.com - By Moira Ritter

  More than 2,100 years ago, a high-ranking official in China’s Western Han Dynasty was buried in a huge tomb filled with treasures. Since then, the …