Read more about the article Perfetly Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Child’s Shoe Found At Ancient Mine
Image shows the 2,000-year-old child's shoe, undated photo. It was found by researchers in the village of Duerrnberg, Austria. (German Mining Museum Bochum/Newsflash)

Perfetly Preserved 2,000-Year-Old Child’s Shoe Found At Ancient Mine

A perfectly preserved child's shoe unearthed from a 2,000-year-old Iron Age mine has been hailed by archaeologists as a first step in cracking the era's social history, The simple shoe…

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Read more about the article Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years
Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Read more about the article Comb Made From Ancient Human Skull Unearthed
Michael Marshall examines the Bar Hill Comb, undated. Archaeologists discovered the comb as part of archaeological excavations on the National Highways A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Improvement Scheme, at an Iron Age site at Bar Hill near Cambridge, in Cambridgeshire, UK. (MOLA/Newsflash)

Comb Made From Ancient Human Skull Unearthed

A grim Iron Age comb made from part of a human skull has been unearthed by archaeologists at a dig in Cambridgeshire. The comb - one of only three of…

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Read more about the article Throne Ivory Worth More Than Gold From Time Of Solomon’s Temple Discovered In Jerusalem
Photo shows some of the ivories discovered in the assemblage, which contains no fewer than 1,500 fragments, undated photo. The ivories, conside. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David/Newsflash)

Throne Ivory Worth More Than Gold From Time Of Solomon’s Temple Discovered In Jerusalem

This footage shows rare ivory plaques dating back thousands of years to Solomon's Temple that are believed to have been part of a throne and that have been unearthed in…

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Read more about the article Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate
Picture shows detail from tomb 14 with a necklace of bronze pendants (8th-7th century BC), undated. The discovery has been made at the Kopilo site in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (ÖAW- ÖAI, M. Gavranovic/Newsflash)

Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate

A necropolis found in Bosnia and Herzegovina has revealed a high mortality rate in the prehistoric period after archaeologists discovered 46 graves and 53 individuals from the Bronze and Iron…

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