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AP - Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday.
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AP - China and Kenya plan to search for ancient Chinese ships wrecked almost 600 years ago off Africa's east coast.
• Reefs form on ancient template
  
Coral reefs in the Red Sea form on an ancient seabed template, which creates their complex shape, say scientists.
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DNA recovered from ancient caribou bones reveals a possible link between several small unique caribou herds and a massive volcanic eruption that blanketed much of the Alaskan Yukon territory in ...
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A new study may finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest citizens. An examination of the remains of Carthaginian children ...
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