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worldofarchaeology July 26, 2021August 10, 2021

7,000 years old Australian Aboriginal Sites Discovered Underwater

A report by Jonathan Benjamin of Flinders University and colleagues published July 1, 2020, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE

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worldofarchaeology July 26, 2021August 10, 2021

Chocolate uncovered by National Library 120 years past expiry date still almost good enough to eat

Conservators at the National Library of Australia have uncovered one of the world’s oldest chocolate boxes, dating back 120 years

Australia

worldofarchaeology July 26, 2021August 10, 2021

Was a 5-Meter-Tall Human Skeleton Unearthed in Australia?

A 5-meter-tall (about 16.5-foot-tall) human skeleton was found in Australia in 2015. Professor Hans Zimmer of the University of Adelaide

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worldofarchaeology July 26, 2021August 10, 2021

Teenage woolly mammoth with soft tissues intact found on Yamal peninsula

“She’s 42,000 years old and has travelled far for her Australian debut,” says the author of the book. So she

An archaeologist takes photos of inscriptions on the wall of the southern cemetery of King Djoser, after its restoration, near the famed Step Pyramid, in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt [Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, AP]

Inscriptions adorn a wall of the southern cemetery of King Djoser, after its restoration, near the famed Step Pyramid, in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt [Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, AP]

False door engraved with hieroglyphics and images of Pharaoh Djoser [Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, AP]

A path leads to the entrance of the southern cemetery of King Djoser, after its restoration, near the famed Step Pyramid, in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt [Credit: Nariman El-Mofty, AP]

Tel Aviv University Prof. Yuval Gadot in the remains of the building destroyed by the Babilonyans in 586 BCE at the Givati Parking Lot Excavation at the City of David, Jerusalem. (credit: ROSSELLA TERCATIN)

Jomon potteries excavated from the Odake shell midden (Early Jomon). A buried skeleton in this site had a specific burial practice in which the body was placed in a flexed position with bent legs [Credit: Shigeki Nakagome, Trinity College Dublin]

Qumran Living Quarters Credit: Wilson44691, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Berthold Werner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

A few artefacts from the collection exhibited at the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department’s headquarters in Chennai

Jomon pottery from the Hirajo shell midden (Late Jomon) and a skull from which ancient DNA was extracted [Credit: Shigeki Nakagome, Trinity College Dublin]