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Fishermen find ancient Roman shipwreck off coast of Sicily

Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was an underwater rock turned out to be the wreck of a 2,000-year-old Roman transport vessel off the coast of Sicily.

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An object in a satellite image defies explanation. Could it solve one of aviation’s greatest mysteries?
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Glimpse what life was like for survivors of the Pompeii disaster
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Bronze Age ‘shaman,’ previously assumed to be a male metalworker, was actually a woman

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Artifacts dating back 400,000 years, found in cave, show ‘complex and rich’ pre-human society

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Digital reconstruction reveals the face of ‘Little Foot,’ a nearly 4 million-year-old human ancestor

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Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

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Scientists extracted DNA from mummified cheetah remains and made a surprising discovery

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Discovered: An outline of a hand that’s at least 67,800 years old

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