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Re-Discovered Sites: Evidence of Ancient Amazon Civilization Uncovered
Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 30 January 2010 (348 reads)
Recent Discoveries As a result of the deforestation of the Amazon basin, a startling discovery has been made. Hidden from view for centuries, the vast archaeological remains of an unknown, ancient civilization have been found.
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Re-Discovered Sites: 1,000 kg megalith discovered in East Dorset
Submitted by BigBear on Sunday, 04 May 2008 (2629 reads)
Megaliths in England 1,000 kg megalith discovered in East DorsetI've just discovered a 1,000 kg toppled megalith on my land in East Dorset and christened it 'The Bearstone' after its location at Bear Mead.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Desert Kites
Submitted by motist on Thursday, 22 February 2007 (3829 reads)
Other Archaeology Desert KitesThe term "Kites" was first given by two British Royal Air Force pilots after the 1st World War, they discovered the installations while flying mail above the Syrian desert from Cairo to Baghdad.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Golden dagger from 3000 BC found in Bulgaria
Submitted by coldrum on Tuesday, 12 September 2006 (2354 reads)
Recent Discoveries A golden dagger dating to 3,000 BC, plus 500 golden ornaments, have been found in a Thracian tomb in central Bulgaria. "It's a really sensational discovery," Bozhidar Dimitrov, head of the Bulgarian national museum, told Reuters.
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Re-Discovered Sites: 'Pyramids' discovered in Ukraine
Submitted by Aluta on Thursday, 07 September 2006 (5448 reads)
Mysteries Ukraine may be thousands of miles away from Egypt, but archaeologists there say they have found pyramids. It is claimed that the monuments have been uncovered in the east of the country and that they predate the pyramids in Egypt.
Having heard about the Bosnian Pyramids, the Ukranians want some too!
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Re-Discovered Sites: Discovery of Bluestone at Stonehenge Cursus - possible setting for Lost Monument
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 31 August 2006 (1771 reads)
Recent Discoveries Last week a sizeable fragment of what is presumed to be spotted dolerite, or bluestone from the Preseli Mountains in south Wales, was discovered in the southwestern quadrant of Woodhenge. At almost exactly the same time, a member of the archaeological team under the direction of Colin Richards discovered another much smaller piece in a test pit in a field close to the western end of the Cursus.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Neolithic Stone Carving Of Big Dipper Discovered In Northwest China
Submitted by Andy B on Thursday, 17 August 2006 (3944 reads)
Rock Art (Petroglyphs) A neolithic stone carving of the Big Dipper star formation has been found on Baimiaozi Mountain near Chifeng City in northwest China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to experts.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Hot weather shows Neolithic causeway in Wales
Submitted by coldrum on Friday, 11 August 2006 (1909 reads)
Recent Discoveries Hot weather has produced parched landscapes which have allowed experts to detect the outlines of some of Wales' earliest buildings, including this Neolithic causeway
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Re-Discovered Sites: Spy pics reveal ancient settlements
Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 07 August 2006 (2484 reads)
Recent Discoveries Australian researchers studying declassified spy satellite images have found widespread remains of ancient human settlements dating back 130,000 years in Syria.
The photographs were taken by United States military surveillance satellites operating under the CIA and defence-led Corona program in the late 1960s.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Bronze Age boat uncovered in Co. Mayo
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 03 August 2006 (1636 reads)
Recent Discoveries The village of Netley, in Rathnamaugh, Crossmolina, was the scene of some painstaking work this week as archaeologists toiled to excavate a prehistoric logboat discovered some weeks ago in the area.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Pethick Site excavation yields artifacts left by the ancients
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 13 July 2006 (1536 reads)
Archaeological Digs A dig in New York state by students and others reveals a site that date back 10,000 years. Artefacts from 1500BC to 1400AD and the remains of at least one longhouse have been unearthed at a Schoharie Valley excavation site that professional archaeologists have called one of the most important in the state.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Thracian Settlement in Central Bulgaria Stuns Archaeologists
Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 12 July 2006 (1538 reads)
Recent Discoveries A Thracian settlement, dating back to the 5th century BC, was uncovered near the village of Vassil Levski, the municipality of Karlovo, Central Bulgaria. The site covers an area of 25 decares and includes a fortified wall and a number of Greek utensils, which archaeologists believe were used for importing wine from the Mediterranean.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Archaeologists uncover 6,500-year-old Neolithic shrine in Prague
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 06 July 2006 (2234 reads)
Recent Discoveries Archaeologists have uncovered a 6,200-6,500 year-old round shrine (rondel) from the Neolithic Age in Prague, archaeologist Milan Kucharik from the Museum of the Capital Prague has reported. The rondel building with a 23-metre diameter was enclosed by two ditches with three palisades and it had two gates - one from east and the other from west.
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Re-Discovered Sites: '6,500-year-old stone ark' found in Florida
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 29 June 2006 (2478 reads)
Mysteries A tireless prophet with a salt-and-pepper beard and an inviting grin, John Saxer knows that mainstream archaeologists, journalists and folks in Tarpon Springs think he's nuts.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Newly discovered giant stone tools reveal unexpectedly early human design skills
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 29 June 2006 (1860 reads)
Recent Discoveries An important archaeological dig undertaken by the University of Southampton, has produced over twenty flint handaxes, including two of exceptional size and quality, which may lead to a reassessment of the level of human development in the Early Stone Age.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Prehistoric pottery is found at new Kincardine Bridge site
Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 21 June 2006 (1708 reads)
Recent Discoveries Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe is the broadest range of elaborately decorated prehistoric pottery ever found in Scotland, at the site for the new Kincardine Bridge. The discovery shows that large groups of Scotland's first settlers crossed over the River Forth at the site of the new bridge up to 6,000 years ago.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Race against time to unearth Wolds history
Submitted by coldrum on Thursday, 01 June 2006 (2056 reads)
Recent Discoveries Archaeologists face a race against time to excavate ancient sites found along the path of a 32-mile pipeline in East Yorkshire. So much has been uncovered on the route of the new Ganstead to Asselby pipeline – including an unknown Bronze Age burial mound in the Yorkshire Wolds – that workers have been drafted in from all over Europe.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Bosnian explorer finds 'Europe's first pyramids'
Submitted by Andy B on Friday, 26 May 2006 (13931 reads)
Recent Discoveries Bosnian explorer finds 'Europe's first pyramids'Find the location of this site on our Site Page. Bosnian explorer Semir Osmanagic is convinced he has found Europe's first pyramids which he says are a new world wonder dating back to ancient times. "I was amazed when I first saw them. I'm deeply convinced now that this is the work of an ancient civilisation built many thousands of years ago," he said while observing an area he excavated north of Sarajevo.
Egyptian backs Bosnian pyramid claim, see comment
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Re-Discovered Sites: Archaeologists find oldest observatory in Americas
Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 15 May 2006 (2544 reads)
New Sites Archaeologists working high in the Peruvian Andes have discovered the oldest celestial observatory in the Americas - a 4,200-year-old structure marking the summer and winter solstices that is as old as the stone pillars of Stonehenge.

The observatory was built on the top of a 33-foot-high pyramid with precise alignments and sight lines that provide an astronomical calendar for agriculture, archaeologist Robert Benfer of the University of Missouri said.
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Re-Discovered Sites: Ancient gold found at Amberley
Submitted by coldrum on Sunday, 26 March 2006 (3437 reads)
Recent Discoveries A gold pendant, found near Amberley by a treasure hunter, has turned out to be more than 3,000 years old. The piece of Bronze Age jewellery is only the second of its kind ever found, a treasure inquest heard on Wednesday. It has been dated to between 1100BC and 1300BC.
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