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Scientists Think a Skeleton Found in a Well Is the Same Man Described in an 800-Year-Old Norse Text
The text includes “nothing about who this dead man was, where he came from, what group he belonged to,” says Petersén. Though ...
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Yuha Man’s skeleton was stolen before it could be dated
Tests carried out on the caliche — a natural layer of calcium carbonate that had grown over time on the surface of the Yuha Man’s skeleton ... came to a dead end. Hard facts were hard ...
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SKELETON AT MOUNT VERNON.; Remains of Murdered Man Found on George Washington Estate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. -- Within a few hundred feet of the tomb of George Washington the skeleton of a man was discovered by Gatekeeper Vickers to-day in a dense growth of underbrush on the Mount ...
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The Mystery Of Cheddar Man, The Oldest Complete Skeleton Ever Found In Britain
In 1903, workers excavating Gough’s Cave in England discovered the remains of a prehistoric man. Dating back 10,000 years to the Mesolithic Era, his skeleton revealed that he was part of a ...