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Archeology

Mysterious skull trapped in cave wall for 300,000 years stuns scientists

When villagers exploring Petralona Cave in Greece stumbled on a human-like skull in 1960, they found it literally trapped in the cave wall, fused to the rock by thick calcite. The cranium was eventually pried out of the limestone, but its age and identity became one of paleoanthropology’s longest running arguments. A new 2025 study […]

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