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Aug 7, 2008 8:51 PM CDT

Team Digs Up Ancient Chariot

(Newser) - Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old chariot in good condition at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria. The team found the four-wheel chariot during excavations near the village of Borisovo, around 180 miles east of the capital, Sofia. It's rare to find a chariot of this age in one...

Early Shakespeare
Theater Discovered

Aug 6, 2008 8:37 PM CDT

Early Shakespeare Theater Discovered

(Newser) - Archeologists think they have found the theater where Romeo and Juliet debuted and where William Shakespeare himself may have trodden the boards. The possible foundations of what is known as simply "the Theatre" were unearthed by builders excavating the London site—a vacant garage—for another structure. Museum archaeologists...

Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth

Jul 21, 2008 3:34 AM CDT

Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth

Lost ruins spotted in Afghan desert

(Newser) - Google Earth has made detailed satellite imagery readily accessible to planetary voyeurs—but academics are also using it to get things done in ways never before possible. A team of university archeologists are uncovering hundreds of sites in the Afghan desert that might never have been discovered on foot, reports...

Fossil Feces Revise History

Apr 3, 2008 9:43 PM CDT

Fossil Feces Revise History

Evidence shows humans arrived in North America much earlier than thought

(Newser) - Fossilized feces found in an Oregon cave have scientists rethinking how and when humans first came to North America. At 14,300 years old, the ancient poop was deposited at least 1,000 years before humans were thought to roam the area, National Geographic reports. Discoveries like this "help...

Amateur Prospectors Find Rare Viking Treasure in UK

Jul 22, 2007 7:13 AM CDT

Amateur Prospectors Find Rare Viking Treasure in UK

(Newser) - A pot filled with mostly silver coins, buried for 1,000 years, was found recently by a father and son wielding a metal detector on a farm in Yorkshire, England. Archeologosists theorize that the find by Dave and Andrew Whelan was booty from a Viking raid on a monastery....

First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

May 20, 2007 9:02 PM CDT

First Computer May Be 2100 Years Old

Scholars may have finally figured out what the Antikythera Mechanism is

(Newser) - An unknown scientist in the first century B.C. may have invented the world’s first computer. Discovered by Greek divers in 1900 on the bottom of the Aegean Sea near the island of Antikythera, the so called Antikythera Mechanism lay in the National Museum in Athens mistaken for an...