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Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman’s skill from 7500BC (so good it couldn’t be bettered today)

December 26, 2011
Polished skills: The obsidian bracelet contains remarkable detail

A 9,500-year-old bracelet has been analysed using the very latest computers – and the results show that it is so intricate even today’s craftsmen would struggle to improve it. Researchers from the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes in Istanbul and Laboratoire de Tribologie et de Dynamiques des Systèmes studied the bracelet’s surface and its micro-topographic...
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Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull – it’s not crystal, and it’s shaped like a monkey

November 20, 2011
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By ROB WAUGH The ‘crystal skulls’ relics of ancient American civilisations have all been exposed as fakes – but a Mayan carved skull appears to be the real thing. Not only that, experts believe the relic – buried along with its owner between 250AD and 600AD – may have been a replica of a ‘hand...
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Operation Crossbow: How 3D glasses helped defeat Hitler

May 14, 2011
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By Jon KellyBBC News Magazine Continue reading the main story  In today’s Magazine Quiz of the week’s news How can you explain cancer clusters? What makes people complain about ads? Paper Monitor Newly released photographs show how a team of World War II experts disrupted Nazi plans to bombard Britain – with the help...
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Paranthropus boisei: Ancient human relative was ‘primate equivalent of a cow’

May 4, 2011
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An ancient relative of humans dubbed ‘Nutcracker Man’ because of his powerful jaws and huge teeth may have actually preferred to eat grass, say scientists.   The hominid, known as Paranthropus boisei, ranged across the African landscape more than one million years ago and lived side-by-side with direct ancestors of humans.   Professor Matt...
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Every language evolved from ‘single prehistoric mother tongue first spoken in Africa’

April 16, 2011
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By DAVID DERBYSHIRE Every language in the world – from English to Mandarin – evolved from a prehistoric ‘mother tongue’ first spoken in Africa tens of thousands of years ago, a new study reveals. After analysing more than 500 languages, Dr Quentin Atkinson found compelling evidence that they can be traced back to a...
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The historical Rough Guide to everywhere: 16th century book mapping major cities is reprinted

April 15, 2011
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For the 16th century man trying to get around town it was as useful as Google Earth or a sat-nav. And if you prefer a map to technology you can now follow your ancestors’ footsteps, thanks to a reprint of a four centuries old guide to the world’s major cities. The reprinted book contains...
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Gay caveman: 5,000-year-old male skeleton ‘outed’ by way he was buried

April 8, 2011
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Skeleton was pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs – rituals only previously seen in female graves Five thousand years after he died, the first known gay caveman has emerged into the daylight. According to archaeologists, the way he was buried suggests that he was of a different sexual persuasion. The skeleton of the...
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Nazi 3D films from 1936 discovered

February 18, 2011
Nazi 3D films from 1936 discovered

Nazi 3D films from 1936 discovered Films depicting bratwursts on a barbecue and contemporary film stars thought to show Nazis beat Hollywood to 3D by 16 years Ben Child guardian.co.uk, Article history Nazi propaganda film-maker Leni Riefenstahl at work during the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. Photograph: AP James Cameron and his team...
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Australian filmmaker uncovers Nazi propaganda films shot in 3D, featuring sausage

February 16, 2011
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The Nazi 3D fims uncovered by Aussie director Philippe Mora feature sausage and dancing girls. FILMMAKERS have been trying to make the perfect 3D movie for more than a century, but not always in Hollywood. Australian director Philippe Mora has found two Nazi propaganda films shot in 3D while searching through Germany’s Federal Archives....
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False toes belonging to Egyptian mummies were the world’s ‘earliest functional prosthetic body parts’

February 16, 2011
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By GRAHAM SMITH Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – were the world’s earliest functional prosthetic body parts, according to a study. A three-part wood and leather artefact housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and the Greville Chester artificial toe on display in the...
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