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Cassian Holt

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A charcoal scrawl found at Pompeii may finally pin down the day Vesuvius erupted.

A Viking woman was buried with scallop shells laid at her mouth, a first for Norway.

A 1,500-year-old mosaic knotted in a mysterious pattern surfaced beneath a Turkish city.

A Roman villa near Rome kept its mosaics, painted walls and a broken statue of a woodland god.

A cave in Turkey shows Neanderthals and modern humans using the very same tools.

Scans found two hidden voids tucked behind the smooth face of the Menkaure pyramid.

Divers mapped a whole medieval town resting on the floor of a Kyrgyz lake.

Diggers in Italy uncovered a princely tomb sealed since the dawn of Rome.

Restorers revealed China’s only surviving set of gilded Tang-dynasty armor.

Diggers found a Viking chieftain’s grave in Denmark that may tie to Harald Bluetooth.

Fifty Viking graves surfaced in Denmark, one holding a woman laid to rest in a wagon.

A pod of killer whales turned up off Hawaii, a sighting scientists call very rare.

Florida is paying $10,000 to whoever bags the most Burmese pythons this month.

Orcas have been filmed hunting and killing great white sharks for their livers.

An octopus carries nine brains and has been filmed playing with Lego, scientists say.

Invasive pythons have set up a new colony well beyond their old Everglades range.

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