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Why is there a cemetery at O’Hare Airport?
A little over 300 people found their final home at Resthaven Cemetery, which has been there since before the Civil War.
1,400-year-old Jewish ritual bath unearthed on outskirts of Rome. See the unique ruins
On the outskirts of Rome, Italy, sit the ruins of Ostia Antica. The ancient port city isn’t as well-known as the nearby Colosseum or Roman Forum, but — as archaeologists recently learned — it contains ...
First burials: Compelling evidence that Neanderthal and Homo sapiens engaged in cultural exchange
The first-ever published research on Tinshemet Cave reveals that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in the mid-Middle Paleolithic ...
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How Old Norse of the Vikings Influenced the English Language
English borrows a lot of words from different languages. Words include rendezvous, genre, and even lemon. English is more of ...
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Burial bonds: 110,000-year-old human-Neanderthal grave shows shared rituals
Tinshemet Cave in Israel shows that homo sapiens and Neanderthals interacted and exchanged more profoundly than previously understood.
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Fiji’s fishing ship graveyard highlights lax Pacific dumping controls
Parts of Suva harbor in Fiji resemble a ship graveyard with more than two dozen rusting and unseaworthy vessels abandoned due ...
This wild ancient version of soccer with rules like 'no murder' is still played today
Every year, thousands of people descend on a small town in the English countryside to watch a two-day game of mass street football that could easily be mistaken for a riot.
It’s not just the Gulf of Mexico. Why is so much of America named after foreign countries?
Our exhaustive search of American place names discovered that one country has been a shockingly dominant source of ...