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History


Archaeologists discover 30 sealed coffins in Egypt

The find near Luxor, Egypt is especially rare as similar wooden coffins had all been opened by robbers long ago


Light reading — A new way to decode charred papyrus scrolls

A new technology might help scientists read 2,000 year-old scrolls burnt by Vesuvius in 79 AD


Meet the ancient worm that died in its tracks

Sad but true, this 550-million-year-old creature was amazingly fossilized along with its ‘footprint’


New Zealand was a land of ancient big birds

A pair of fossils reveal both the largest parrot and penguin species ever known


Ancient predator Cambroraster falcatus looks like Millennium Falcon

The 506-million-year-old arthropod was discovered by a team from the Royal Ontario Museum