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Archaeologists drawing on a wide range of tools said on Wednesday they had pinpointed the crucial time in world history when Egypt emerged as a distinct state.

• 05 сентября 2013, 11:26

The discovery in Peru of another tomb belonging to a pre-Hispanic priestess, the eighth in more than two decades, confirms that powerful women ruled this region 1,200 years ago.

• 24 августа 2013, 11:54

The earliest iron artefacts ever found -- funeral beads strung around bodies in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian cemetery -- were made from a meteorite.

• 20 августа 2013, 18:56

A cold, dry spell that lasted hundreds of years may have driven the collapse of Eastern Mediterranean civilizations in the 13th century BC.

• 15 августа 2013, 16:22

Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.

• 30 июня 2013, 15:01

A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology.

• 16 июня 2013, 11:37

Kazakhstan archaeologists have discovered a beheaded human skeleton next to the tomb of the “Saka princess”.

• 06 июня 2013, 19:07

A burial site of a high-ranking young woman was discovered during reconstruction of Taskesken-Bakty road in Urdzhar region of East-Kazakhstan oblast.

• 03 июня 2013, 15:13

Villagers installing a water pipe in southwestern Mexico stumbled onto an ancient granite statue depicting a player from a pre-Hispanic ball game.

• 21 мая 2013, 18:20

Archaeologists from the U.S., Germany, Japan and Australia arrived to Kazakhstan to study a Stone Age man site in Zhambyl region of Almaty oblast.

• 20 мая 2013, 13:11

Over four millennia ago, the fortress town of Gonur-Tepe might have been a rare advanced civilisation before it was buried for centuries under the dust of the Kara Kum desert in remote western Turkmenistan.

• 06 апреля 2013, 18:01

Peruvian archeologists have discovered a temple believed to be about 5,000 years old at the ancient El Paraiso archeological site in a valley just north of Lima.

• 13 февраля 2013, 12:23

Archeologists in central Mexico uncovered the bones of 12 children and adults who may have been buried 800 years ago.

• 29 декабря 2012, 18:45

An apparent North Korean claim to have uncovered a "unicorn's lair" that created an Internet storm was partly the result of mistranslation by Pyongyang's much-mocked propaganda machine.

• 06 декабря 2012, 14:42

Italian archaeologists say they have discovered a cemetery that reveals complex funeral rites dating back more than 3,000 years in Pakistan's Swat valley, recently controlled by the Taliban.

• 24 ноября 2012, 14:48

Archaeologists in eastern Bulgaria say they have unearthed the oldest prehistoric town ever found in Europe, along with an ancient salt production site.

• 31 октября 2012, 15:50

Construction workers in Bali have discovered what is thought to be the biggest ancient Hindu temple ever found on the Indonesian island.

• 25 октября 2012, 17:01

Kazakhstan archaeologists have found a Bronze Age burial near Uralsk city.

• 19 июля 2012, 14:38

Remains of a huge bird that lived on Earth in Cretaceous geologic period at Dinosaurs Age were found at the territory of Kazakhstan.

• 11 августа 2011, 14:56

Archaeologists found ruins of a tomb of a nobleman of the Golden Horde time in Pavlodar oblast.

• 10 августа 2011, 19:20