20,000-year-old footprints show humans have been in the Americas longer than previously thought, scientists say

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Human footprints in brownish-white ground at White Sands National Park, New Mexico
Footprints found in White Sands National Park may show that humans were in what is now New Mexico over 20,000 years ago.

National Park Service

Ancient people may have used human skulls for cups and other body parts for tools, according to a burial site in Spain

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The opening of Cueva de los Marmoles in Spain, which is dark inside and shows greenery and rocks outside
The opening to Cueva de los Marmoles, where many prehistoric people buried their dead for millennia.

J.C. Vera Rodríguez, CC-BY 4.0

Sunken ancient temples were found in a mysterious underwater city, with Egyptian and Greek treasures

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Images show Grecian artefacts buried in mud underwater on the left, and gold Egyptian artefacts on the right.
Side-by-side images show ancient artifact found in the mud in the Thonis-Heracleion site in the Aboukir Bay in Egypt.

Christoph Gerigk ©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation; Insider

Archaeologists find the remains of 2 adults they believe could be victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

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Buildings burning during Race Riots, Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Buildings burning during Race Riots, Greenwood District, Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Scientists uncover hidden ancient drawings of animals in a Paleolithic cave using a technique to make them look 3D

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Four images of a Paleolithic cave drawing of a horse in La Pasiega Cave in Spain, including two rendered in bright colors using DStretch software
The image of a horse in the La Pasiega Cave shown without and with DStretch software processing.

Raquel Asiain/Pedro Saura

A 51-year-old man stumbled across the 'gold find of the century' with a metal detector after his doctor told him to get outside more often

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A person using a metal detector.
Amazing what a metal detector can find.

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Lasers revealed 6 ancient civilizations that were hiding in plain sight

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LiDAR captured the ruins of a civilization in the Brazilian Amazon.
Lidar captured the ruins of a civilization in the Brazilian Amazon.

Ecossistema Dakila

5,000-year-old cauldrons of the Bronze Age are so well preserved they offer archeologists the 'first evidence' of an ancient feast consisting of milk and meat

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A 5,000-year-old Bronze Age cauldron that's very oxidized and a artist rendering if what it looked like when used by the Maykop people
One of the 5,000-year-old pots where reseaerchers found animal proteins (left). An artist reconstructed what the cauldron would look like toady (right).

iScience/Wilkin et al.

Pompeii find reveals the secrets of life as a slave in Ancient Rome, frozen in time for almost 2,000 years by volcanic eruption

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Room containing two beds, one without a mattress, cabinets, urns and containers was found by archaeologists at the Civita Giuliana villa
A small bedroom used by slaves is pictured after it was discovered by archaeologists in a Roman villa near Pompeii, Italy.

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Mystery surrounds 19th century 'vampire' found buried in New England with his thigh bones crossed over his chest

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Side by side images show a skull stained by time next to the picture of a short-haired graying middle aged main wearing 19th century garb.
Side-by-side images shows the skull and a facial reconstruction of the "Connecticut Vampire."

Sgt. Robert Trujillo Armed Forces Medical Examiner System; Parabon NanoLabs and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.

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