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Archaeologists uncovered the first known Illyrian temple in the hills of northern Albania.

A body turned up buried inside a giant clay jar at an ancient city in Turkey.

Lost Roman paintings surfaced beneath the floor of an ancient vineyard estate.

A water-filled temple in Egypt may honor a little-known god whose name meant ‘Mud.’

3D scans revealed a lost neighborhood buried inside Pompeii’s ruins.

A sealed bronze jar in a Chinese tomb still held a 2,300-year-old alcoholic drink.

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.

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