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Archaeologists discover new prehistoric circle near Stonehenge
Evidence has been found of 20 or more prehistoric shafts forming a circle around the Durrington Walls henge.
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Archaeologists uncover megalithic monument thought to be unlike any found in Ireland to date
The discovery was made by a team of archaeologists from IT Sligo during a two-week excavation.
# gettin' jiggy with it
The cave where western humans got it on for the first time...
Scientists seems to think they’ve found the place.
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Neanderthals made sure to eat their greens, ancient poo reveals
The study in the journal PLOS ONE is the first to analyze feces in an attempt to show precisely what kinds of foods our long-extinct kin were eating.
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Billion-year-old water discovered in Canada could give clues to early life on Earth
Life-giving chemicals have been discovered in isolated water believed to be 1.5 billion years old, raising hopes of scientists finding surviving microscopic organisms from a prehistoric age.
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Bulgaria claims to find Europe's 'oldest town'
Stone walls excavated by his team near the town of Provadia are estimated to date between 4,700 and 4,200 B.C