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CT scans reveal the last moments of Inca children sacrificed as 'messengers to the gods'New CT scans reveal the last moments of the Inca children who were sacrificed and mummified about 500 years ago.
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Paleo-Inuit people braved icy seas to reach remote Greenland islands 4,500 years ago, archaeologists discoverArchaeological remains on the Kitsissut islands off the coast of Greenland reveal that whole communities regularly journeyed across the dangerous Arctic waters.
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1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing deathThe president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological discovery in a decade."
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Some of the oldest harpoons ever found reveal Indigenous people in Brazil were hunting whales 5,000 years agoThe origins of whaling are highly debated. Now, some of the earliest signs of active whale hunting have appeared somewhere unexpected: southern Brazil.
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5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the AmericasAn ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.
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1,100-year-old mummy found in Chile died of extensive injuries when a turquoise mine caved in, CT scans revealThe mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in a tragic occupational accident.
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Centuries-old 'trophy head' from Peru reveals individual survived to adulthood despite disabling birth defectA researcher has documented a cleft lip in an ancient mummified head from the Andes, a condition that may have been seen as a "blessing" rather than a disability.
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Lost Indigenous settlements described by Jamestown colonist John Smith finally foundExcavations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia have revealed the likely spot of Indigenous villages once described by John Smith.
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Unusual, 1,400-year-old cube-shaped human skull unearthed in MexicoArchaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site.
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