Archaeologists Found 6,000-Year-Old Artifacts Under One of England’s Most Hallowed Buildings

This stuff is older than Stonehenge.
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Archaeologists Digging Beneath Britain's Houses of Parliament Discover 6,000-Year-Old Flint Artifacts and a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Altar Fragment

At the Palace of Westminster in London, which houses Britain’s Parliament, archaeologists have unearthed an array of ...
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6,000-Year-Old Artifacts Unearthed Beneath Palace of Westminster

Archaeological excavations at the heart of London's political power have revealed remarkable prehistoric tools, medieval treasures, and architectural remains spanning six millennia beneath the Palace ...
Ancient Origins

8,500-Year-Old Obsidian Mirror Found at Canhasan

Archaeologists excavating at Canhasan in central Turkey have unearthed an extraordinarily rare 8,500-year-old obsidian mirror. The discovery represents one of only 56 such mirrors ever found across ...
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Where to See the Oldest Artifacts in the World

If you want to feel connected to ancient history, just take a look at your shoes, listen to some music played on a flute or take a sip of wine—it turns out that some of the oldest items humans have ...
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Ancient artifact found in overseas ‘Home Decoration’ shipment to OK, feds say

Customs officials found an ancient object inside a seemingly mundane shipment from the UK into Oklahoma. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Customs officials inspecting an overseas shipment arriving ...