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World History

Tiananmen 20 years later: a survivor's story
Ex-Communist defies authority, recounts atrocities
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — Twenty years after China's military crushed dissent around Tiananmen Square, the details are still fresh in Qi Zhiyong's mind. The acrid smell of tear gas. The people run down by tanks. The dizzying pain when a bullet tore through his left leg.
The student-led protests in the heart o...

  
Tomb discovery in Egypt reveals wider burial zone
A pair of 4,300-year-old pharaonic tombs discovered at Saqqara indicate that the sprawling necropolis south of Cairo is even larger than previously thought, Egypt's top archaeologist said Monday.
Colorado cache of Ice Age tools opens window to Clovis people
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right.
Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools.
They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis peo...
Peru says 14 killed in Shining Path attack Colombia orders arrest of ex-general
DNA tests to study mummy fetuses in King Tut tomb Machu Picchu may be listed as endangered

Stonehenge mystery may have been unraveled


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Ancient chariot discovered in Bulgaria


An archaeologist works around an ancient chariot found in a Thracian tomb about 180 miles east of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Egypt planning DNA test for 3,500-year-old mummy Argentines recall 1976 coup that launched bloody dictatorship
Remains of ancient luxury villas open to visitors in Rome Michelangelo sketch found
Secrets of the Maya ... unlocked!
Thanks to a Spanish bishop and a Russian linguist, among others, scientists are finally reading these ancient texts

This photo made available by the Italian Culture Ministry during a press conference in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, shows an underground grotto believed to have been worshipped by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus. Decorated with seashells and colored marble, the vaulted sanctuary lies buried 16 meters (52 feet) inside the Palatine hill, the palatial center of power in imperial Rome. (AP Photo/Italian Culture Ministry, HO)
  • Prehistoric women had passion for fashion
  • Remarkably detailed fossil gives experts rare peek inside dinosaur

    An artist's rendering shows what the hadrosaur, nicknamed Dakota, might have looked like in life. Scientists do not know the skin color.

    A technician works to prepare the hadrosaur fossil, which has so much detail that scientists are able to gauge the structure of the skin and internal organs.

Temple built 4,000 years ago unearthed in Peru

A painted wall is seen at the clay temple Ventarron in the northern city of Lambayeque, November 10, 2007. Archaeologists have dug up a clay temple filled with murals that was built 4,000 years ago on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of oldest finds in the Americas, scientist Walter Alva said on Saturday. REUTERS/Ignacio Alva/Handout (PERU)
King Tut's 'amazing' face unveiled, can now be seen beneath glass Ancient Greek Science
Who Were The First Americans?  
Aztec pyramid ruins found in Mexico City Egyptian civilizations greatness due to their high ambition to exert power
Girl has a rare experience
Prescott teen is 1st female to make U.S. team, only 1 among 3 teams in finals 		Tut's tomb yields more surprises
Seals apparently unnoticed by first excavators

Scientists determine that prehistoric hunter found in Alps died of injury from arrow

 Mysterious mummy unearthed in Peru
Architect says pyramid was built with spiral ramp Pristine Pre-Roman Tomb Discovered in Italy
The evolution of walking upright
Using 2 legs saves humans energy, study says

2,600 B.C. settlement may link its occupants to Stonehenge

Ancient skeletons found locked in eternal embrace
Archaeologists unearth 5,000-year-old remains near 'Romeo and Juliet' setting in northern Italy

Archaeologist: All royal mummies are suspect

Researchers find 1559 shipwreck, part of Spanish colonization effort in Florida Panhandle

Computer Provides More Questions Than Answers
Scientists Mystified by 2,100-Year-Old Device
Re-created Viking ship arrives in
Dublin		 Discovery casts evolution of humans in a new light

Ancient scripts tell how cold it used to be


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