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Secrets in the News: January 18 – 30, 2015

The ruins of Kuelap in Peru, the largest fortress in South America, are still a puzzle to archaeologists even today. Photo Credit: ZDF Enterprises

A study by the University of Florida claims to have discovered the first ever evidence for ancient bone surgery found in Peru. Two skeletons from the pre-Colombian site of Kuelap Fortress demonstrate pathology similar ...

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Secrets in the News: January 17 – 23, 2015

In 1940, in Tanis, Egypt, a French archaeologist Pierre Montet discovered a tomb of a little known pharaoh of the 21st Dynasty of ancient Egypt, Psusennes I. It was believed that with the country weakened, the pharaohs ...

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Secrets in the News: January 10 – 16, 2015

A younger, more attractive version of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is currently on view at a new exhibition in Singapore. The owners of the painting say that Leonardo da Vinci himself completed it a decade before ...

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Secrets in the News: December 13 – 19, 2014

On Dec. 15 the Cairo government unveiled four renovated halls of the famed Tutankhamun gallery in the Egyptian Museum, as part of a complete overhaul of the facility. The gallery houses treasures that were found intact ...

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