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A Sudden Climatic Change In The Nile May Have Kickstarted Ancient Egypt's Prosperity
IFLScience· 1 hour agoFor Ancient Egyptians, the Nile was the source of life itself: it irrigated their crops and fed...
14 Death Birds: From Harbingers to Messages From Loved Ones
LOVE to KNOW via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoFrom ancient cultures to present day, some birds' symbolic reputations fly with them. Some are...
Ancient geese stood 3 metres tall and weighed as much as a cow
New Scientist· 1 day agoAustralia’s prehistoric thunder birds – once thought to be the ancestors of emus – were, in fact,...
One Of The World’s Oldest Games May Have Not Been Invented In Ancient Egypt After All
IFLScience· 3 hours agoThe game of "58 Holes" is one of the oldest games in the world. According to traditional interpretations, the board game first appeared in ancient Egypt ...
12 Mayan Gods Who Helped Make Sense of a Complex World
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoAncient Maya culture was centered on interconnected city-states that developed great networks of...
Archaeologists Found 11 Canoes Buried in a Wisconsin Lake—and They May Lead to a Lost Village
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 1 day agoAnalysis of the canoes shows that differing wood species were used for the canoes at various times...
Cultural vandalism: Dutch tourist accused of defacing ancient Roman villa
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoA Dutch tourist has been accused of defacing a wall in an ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum, an ...
‘Teen Rex’ skeleton found by children out looking for fossils
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoA rare fossil of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex has been excavated in North Dakota after it was...
Two ancient Egyptian skulls show how long cancer has been an issue for humans
WLRN Miami· 24 hours agoTwo skulls from ancient Egypt appear to show marks left by cancerous tumors -- and one of the skulls appears to have markings that indicate an attempt at surgery to remove them.
Dutch tourist accused of defacing ancient Roman villa in Herculaneum
Reuters· 1 day agoA Dutch tourist has defaced a frescoed wall in an ancient Roman house in Herculaneum, near Naples,...