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Ancient Humans Built Observatory in Desert 2,300 Years Ago That Tells Exact Date Using Sun—But How?
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The Truth About Father Crespi’s Controversial Missing Artifacts
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Out of Place in Time: Petrified Wooden Tools Buried Deep in Limestone
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Drill Bit Found in Coal Suggests Advanced Civilization LONG Before Humans Thought to Walk Earth?
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Is This Really a 250-Million-Year-Old Microchip?
Was there computer technology 250 million years ago? Epoch Times investigated this much-discussed discovery.
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Fossil Suggests Egyptian Pyramids and Sphinx Once Submerged Under Sea Water
The entire landscape of the Giza Necropolis, including the pyramids and the Sphinx, shows erosion that some say ...
March 6, 2015
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Speakers at Science Congress Say Ancient India Mastered Advanced Space Flight Thousands of Years Ago
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Did Ancient Egyptians Have Airplanes? Mechanical Engineer Thinks So
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December 16, 2014
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New Research Uses 2,000-Year-Old Computer to Date Itself: Antikythera Mechanism
About the size of a modern laptop, this ancient computer could calculate astronomical changes with great precision. New ...
November 27, 2014
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Ancient Nanostructures Found Out of Place and Time
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November 6, 2014
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3,000-Year-Old Bronze Sword Discovered in China
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September 27, 2014
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2,000-Year-Old Battery Has Puzzled Archaeologists for Decades
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September 24, 2014
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15,000-Year-Old Houses Found in Africa Show Advanced Skills of Prehistoric Society
Polish archaeologists have uncovered 15,000-year-old sturdy and permanent structures in Sudan, Africa. They show a much more settled ...
July 29, 2014
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The 9,500-Year-Old Honeycomb City of Çatalhöyük
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Out of Place in Time: A 500,000-Year-Old Spark Plug?
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June 9, 2014
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May 22, 2014
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300-Million-Year-Old Man-Made Tools?
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Australian Aborigines Were Sophisticated Farmers and Land Managers
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May 21, 2014
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Hominids Used Fire One Million Years Ago
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