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Scandinavians Are Descended From Stone Age Immigrants, Ancient DNA Reveals

Today's Scandinavians are not descended from the people who came to Scandinavia at the conclusion of the last ice age but, apparently, from a population that arrived later, concurrently with the introduction of agriculture.

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Fresh doubts over Hitler's death after tests on bullet hole skull reveal it belonged to a woman

Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday. A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader's has turned out to be that of a woman under 40 after DNA analysis.

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Mass Extinction Event Spared Europe (Mostly)

Michael Reilly, Discovery News

When a comet crashed into the...

Rare coins find excites experts

The coins will be sent to the British Museum for examination

Four silver coins dating from Norman England have been found in Gloucestershire. It is believed they were minted in Gloucester in 1073-1076 and represent an unrecorded type of penny.

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Near Army construction site in Germany, a trove of ancient Roman artifacts

By Mark Patton, Stars and Stripes

WIESBADEN, Germany — A team of archaeology students and experts believe they have unearthed remnants of a Roman settlement from the second or third century near the construction site of an Army housing project, but the discovery isn't expected to affect the project.

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Human Ancestors Conflicted on Monogamy

Michael Reilly, Discovery News Not the Cheating Kind? | a

More On Largest ever hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold found in Staffordshire

by Maev Kennedy

A harvest of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver so beautiful it brought tears to the eyes of one expert, has poured out of a Staffordshire field - the largest hoard of gold from the period ever found.

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Largest-ever Anglo-Saxon gold hoard unearthed in England

A gold strip with a Biblical inscription was among the 1,500 pieces unearthed in an English field.

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Archaeologists find suspected Trojan war-era couple

ANKARA (Reuters) - Archaeologists in the ancient city of Troy in Turkey have found the remains of a man and a woman believed to have died in 1,200 B.C., the time of the legendary war chronicled by Homer, a leading German professor said on Tuesday.

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2,000-year-old ritual bath found in Jerusalem

AP: JERUSALEM - Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered a ritual bath in Jerusalem that was likely used by Jewish pilgrims coming to the temple two millenia ago.

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