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NEWS ABOUT: ancient cities

ancient cities stories: 6 news summaries

 Pair's Remains 
 May Date to 
 Trojan War 

Find in ancient Troy could date to 1200 BC

Sep 22, 09 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a discovery one professor calls “electrifying,” archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a couple believed to have lived during the Trojan War era in Turkey’s ancient city of Troy, Reuters reports. “If the remains are confirmed to be from 1200 BC it would coincide with... More »

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Turkey • archaeology • history • Trojan • remains • ancient cities • Troy

In Remote Amazon, Complex Towns Once Flourished

Archaeologists see advanced civilization in areas since overtaken by rain forest

Aug 29, 08 2:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers have unearthed remains of densely populated, complex urban towns in a remote region of the Amazon River Basin, the BBC reports. In an area of western Brazil thought to be virgin forest, researchers found extensive and advanced human activity, including roads, farming, wetland management, and what appear to be... More »

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archaeology • Brazil • rainforest • anthropology • ancient cities • Amazon rainforest

 Sahara Yields Ancient Cemetery 

Find shows desert was once lush, green, populated

Aug 15, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Explorers hunting for dinosaur bones have found a Stone Age cemetery deep in the Sahara desert, National Geographic reports. The team of paleontologists discovered bones from two separate ancient human cultures that lived in the region as long as 10,000 years ago, when monsoon rains turned parts of the... More »

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archaeology • paleontology • desert • Sahara • ancient cities • Niger • cemetery

 New Findings Shatter
 Old Mayan Theories 

Decades of local disasters slowly undermined their cities

Jun 23, 08 6:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some experts want to drain Mayan history of its high drama—the sudden collapse, and desperate migration—to tell a longer, slower story, USA Today reports. Classic history claims that Mayan cities imploded quickly around 900 AD, and their people trekked north to colonize in the Yucatan—but experts now... More »

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archaeology • Mexico • Mayans • ancient cities

Archaeologists Unearth Pre-Inca Temple

'Sacred ceremonial nature' of site surprises researchers

Mar 16, 08 6:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Archaeologists have dug up a pre-Incan temple that sheds light on a lost Peruvian culture, the AP reports. Nestled in a mountain region, the sprawling site housed the Killke people as they fended off an encroaching Spanish empire around 1200 AD. Evidence of mummies and idols shows that the Killke... More »

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archaeology • Peru • Inca • ancient cities • ruins • Killke • Peruvian mountains • discovery

Ancient Plaza Found in Peru

Site may be oldest urban structure in the Americas

Feb 26, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed one of the oldest structures in the Americas, Reuters reports. Carbon dating indicates the ceremonial plaza in Casma is 5,500 years old, scientists at the dig say. That's 500 years older than the nearby ancient citadel of Caral, previously thought be Peru’s oldest... More »

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archaeology • Peru • Lima • ancient cities • Casma, Peru • Caral, Peru • discovery

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