The US government

perpetrated 9/11.

Ancient Egyptians knew the pain of heart disease. News
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"Atherosclerosis is ubiquitous among modern day humans and, despite difference in ancient and modern lifestyles, we found that it was rather common in ancient Egyptians of high socioeconomic status living as much as three millennia ago," said Gregory Thomas, a cardiology professor at the University of California, Irvine.

System of caves discovered underneath the Pyramids at Giza. News
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An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.

Birthplace of Roman emporer Vespasian found. News
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18,000-year-old pottery found in China may be the earliest yet. News
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Evidence surfaces that humans killed and ate Neanderthals. News
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Fernando Rozzi, of Paris's Centre National de la Rcherche Scientifique, said the jawbone had probably been cut into to remove flesh, including the tongue. Crucially, the butchery was similar to that used by humans to cut up deer carcass in the early Stone Age. "Neanderthals met a violent end at our hands and in some cases we ate them," Rozzi said.

New sequences from hadrosaur dinosaur confirm that ancient protein is preserved over time. News
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Ancient protein dating back 80 million years to the Cretaceous geologic period has been preserved in bone fragments and soft tissues of a hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, according to a study in the May 1 issue of Science. Led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and North Carolina State University (NCSU), the new findings support earlier results from analyses suggesting that collagen protein survived in the bones of a well preserved Tyrannosaurus rex, and offer robust new evidence supporting previous conclusions that birds and dinosaurs are evolutionarily related.
In April 2007 John Asara, PhD, Director of the Mass Spectrometry Core at BIDMC, together with NCSU paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, PhD, published two papers in Science describing their discovery that collagen extracted from bone fragments of a 68-million-year-old T. rex closely matched the amino acid sequences of modern day chickens. Not surprisingly, the widely publicized findings created a great deal of controversy.

European Man Found in Ancient Chinese Tomb, Study Reveals News
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Human remains found in a 1,400-year-old Chinese tomb belonged to a man of European origin, DNA evidence shows.
Chinese scientists who analyzed the DNA of the remains say the man, named Yu Hong, belonged to one of the oldest genetic groups from western Eurasia.

Lost Crusaders' Tunnels Found Near Palace on Malta News
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For centuries it's been said that the crusading Knights of Malta constructed an underground city on the Mediterranean island of Malta, sparking rumors of secret carriageways and military labyrinths.
Now a tunnel network has been uncovered beneath the historic heart of the Maltese capital of Valletta, researchers say. But the tunnelslikely from an ahead-of-its-time water systemmay render previous theories all wet.

Oetzi and 50 other mummies to go on display w/artifacts in Bolzano, Italy. News
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Prehistoric axe and skeletons found at Olympic site in UK's largest archaeological dig News
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Neanderthanl DNA shows they were distinct from us. News
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Scientists studying the DNA of Neanderthals say they can find no evidence that this ancient species ever interbred with modern humans.
But our evolutionary cousins may well have been able to speak as well as us, said Prof Svante Paabo from Germany's Max Planck Institute.

Evidence shows Persians used chemical warfare against Romans in 3rd century. News
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2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb of blonde-haired people. News
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City of legendary light-skinned Cloud People of Peru located. News
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Cost to recreate a Wooly Mammoth from its DNA: $10 million. News
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Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.
A woolly mammoth hair ball. Hairs like these were used to sequence the mammoth genome.
The same technology could be applied to any other extinct species from which one can obtain hair, horn, hooves, fur or feathers, and which went extinct within the last 60,000 years, the effective age limit for DNA.

The £350,000 Iron Age neckband discovered by one man and his metal detector News
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Otzi the ancient iceman found frozen in the Alps is unrelated to present-day humans, say researchers. News
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BBC: The Lost Gospels Video
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Huge statue of Roman emporer Marcus Aurelius found in Turkey. News
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DNA Retrieved from 1,000-year-old Vikings: Strands of 1,000-year-old DNA from 10 Viking skeletons have been retrieved, a team of scientists claims. News
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Jurassic Park comes true: How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken News
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It is generally accepted by palaeontologists that birds are descended from a class of theropod dinosaurs called raptors. ‘If we want to see a dinosaur in our lifetime, we need to start with a bird and work backwards,’ says Horner. ‘As long as birds exist, we have the ability to reach back to dinosaurs.’

Possible 40,000 year old footprints found in Mexico. News
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Human genome contains signs of widespread cannibalism and associated prion brain-wasting disease in humanity's past. News
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Genetic markers commonly found in modern humans all over the world could be evidence that our earliest ancestors were cannibals, according to new research. Scientists suggest that even today many of us carry a gene that evolved as protection against brain diseases that can be spread by eating human flesh. The brain diseases, called prion diseases, are characterized by loss of coordination, dementia, paralysis, and eventually death. Modern examples include Creutzfeld Jacob disease and kuru in humans, and mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in animals.

Dinosaurs Probably Lacked Brown Adipose Tissue That Generates Heat News
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A team of researchers at New York Medical College has discovered why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialized to generate heat. A new paper contains the surprising implication that the same lack of heat-generating tissue may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs.

Ancient humans started down the path of evolving into two separate species before merging back into a single population, a genetic study suggests. News
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The genetic split in Africa resulted in distinct populations that lived in isolation for as much as 100,000 years, the scientists say.

Soft Tissue in T. Rex Fossil Confirms Dino-Bird Lineage News
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Tyrannosaurus rex just got a firm grip on the animal kingdom's family tree, right next to chickens and ostriches. New analyses of soft tissue from a T.rex leg bone re-confirm that birds are dinosaurs' closest living relatives.

Discovery of 12,000-year-old Temple Complex Could Alter Theory of Human Development News
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As a child, Klaus Schmidt used to grub around in caves in his native Germany in the hope of finding prehistoric paintings. Thirty years later, representing the German Archaeological Institute, he found something infinitely more important -- a temple complex almost twice as old as anything comparable on the planet.

Neanderthal voice simulated by anthropologist. News
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Talk about a long silence – no one has heard their voices for 30,000 years. Now the long-extinct Neanderthals are speaking up – or at least a computer synthesiser is doing so on their behalf.

Can prehistoric mammoths now be cloned? Perfectly preserved baby mammoth found in Russia. Video
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Google Tech Talk: The Archimedes Palimpsest Video
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Study shows life was tough for the average ancient Egyptian News
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New evidence of a sick, deprived population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of Tell el-Amarna, a study has found.

PBS's NOVA looks at the recent discovery of dinosaur soft tissue. Video
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Preserved soft tissue, including possible blood vessels and red blood cells, are turning up in dinosaur fossils.

4th Century BC Men Found in Irish Bog Used Hair Gel, Had Manicured Nails News
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Male grooming has an ancient history in Ireland, if the savagely murdered bodies of two ancient "bog men" are anything to go by.

Neanderthal genome unlocks secrets of human evolution. The genomes of modern humans and Neanderthals are at least 99.5-percent identical. News
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Their results show that the genomes of modern humans and Neanderthals are at least 99.5-percent identical, but despite this genetic similarity, and despite the two species having cohabitated the same geographic region for thousands of years, there is ...

Archaeologist 'Strikes Gold' With Finds Of Ancient Nasca Iron Ore Mine In Peru News
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A Purdue University archaeologist discovered an intact ancient iron ore mine in South America that shows how civilizations before the Inca Empire were mining this valuable ore.

The gene for blue eyes was caused by a mutation occurring 6000 to 10,000 years ago. News
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Scientists believe they have tracked down the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans on the planet today. “Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Prof Hans Eiberg from the University of Copenhagen, who led the team.

My review of the film Apocalypto. Review
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Brachylophosaurus Leonardo, the best preserved dinosaur in the world w/fossilized soft tissue (skin, muscle, etc). Reference
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Tabula Peutingeriana: copy of 23-foot long ancient Roman road map unveiled. News
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