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A fort of recent origins by the ruins.
Ubar, Oman

Ubar

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."
Oxford, England

The Alfred Jewel

One of Oxford's greatest treasures likely belonged to England's legendary King Alfred the Great.
The circle is much, much younger than archaeologists thought.
geology

It Turns Out That This 'Millennia-Old' Stone Circle Is Actually Only as Old as Millennials

It's a recent riff on an ancient Scottish tradition.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 23, 2019
Crotone, Italy

Capo Colonna

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.
View of the pyramid.
Tlalnepantla, Mexico

The Pyramid of Santa Cecilia Acatitlán

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.
A kite from above, taken from a balloon with a camera attached.
volcanoes

The Middle East Is Dotted With Thousands of Puzzling Kite-Shaped Structures

Some of them are comparable in size to the famous Nazca Lines in Peru.
Robin George Andrews January 22, 2019
Our advice: When making quinoa, do not burn it, or keep it for 3,000 years.
ancient

Found: Really, Really Old Quinoa

These 3,000-year-old charred seeds are the oldest of their kind ever found in Ontario.
Matthew Taub January 18, 2019
<em>Hunting Dog and Rabbit</em>.
animals

How Long Have Dogs Been Helping Us Hunt?

New findings in Jordan indicate that they've been assisting us for nearly 12,000 years.
Matthew Taub January 16, 2019
Site of the Cohoes Mastodon discovery.
Cohoes, New York

Site of the Cohoes Mastodon

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Silk scroll painting of Kublai Khan on a hunting expedition.
archaeology

What Life Was Like for Ancient Mongolians

Researchers studied the remains of 25 individuals for clues.
Jonathan Carey January 14, 2019
Rock art on stone by entrance.
Stamullen, Ireland

Fourknocks Passage Tomb

An ancient chamber filled with wonderful rock art and a Neolithic carving of a human face.
A <em>Hydrozetes</em> mite cored from Marcacocha.
archaeology

Poop-Eating Mites Are Handy Historians

These arthropods can tell us about the causes of animal extinctions.
Matthew Taub January 9, 2019
Stone Head of Salaspils.
Riga, Latvia

Stone Head of Salaspils

This enigmatic artifact remained buried in a churchyard for years.
The "aljibe" or cistern beneath the Cáceres Museum.
Cáceres, Spain

Moorish Cistern of Cáceres

The largest medieval water tank on the Iberian Peninsula is preserved beneath the Cáceres Museum.
Lloyds Bank coprolite.
York, England

Lloyds Bank Coprolite

An incredibly well-preserved piece of ninth-century Viking poop.
The museum building.
Mexico City, Mexico

Museo Anahuacalli

The Mexican painter Diego Rivera created this unusual museum to display his collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts.
One of many vortices.
Chacala, Mexico

Alta Vista Petroglyph Complex

Tucked along a river are enigmatic stone carvings created thousands of years ago.
The view from the Nile.
Abu AR Rish Qebli, Egypt

Tombs of the Nobles

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.