Archeology

Guardians of the secret warehouse lost the world of treasures found on the HS2 route

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Guardians of the secret warehouse lost the world of treasures found on the HS2 route

The treasures uncovered by hundreds of archaeologists so far during work on the controversial planned HS2 train line have been revealed exclusively to the BBC. The 450,000 objects, which are kept in a secret warehouse, include a possible Roman gladiator tag, a hand ax that could be more than 40,000 years old and gold dentures … Read more

The world’s oldest rock art discovered in an Indonesian cave

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The world’s oldest rock art discovered in an Indonesian cave

The dark bowels of a limestone cave on Muna Island, off Indonesia’s Sulawesi coast, have just revealed an ancient secret. There, a team of archaeologists discovered man-made rock art older than any other reliably dated example, with a minimum age of 67,800 years ago. The strange hand patterns with their pointed fingers are an important … Read more