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Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

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An archeology team from Texas Tech in collaboration with Texas Historical Commission archeologists found the lost site of a ...

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