Woman With Prehistoric Ivory Hidden Under Skirt Seized By Customs Cops
Photo shows seized mammoth tusks at customs of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, Russia, undated. The woman taped them to her legs and covered it with a big skirt. (@customs_rus/Newsflash)
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Woman With Prehistoric Ivory Hidden Under Skirt Seized By Customs Cops

This is the moment Russian customs police unearth a stash of mammoth ivory hidden under the skirt of a woman trafficker. https://filedn.eu/lhVNGNsizwl5t7THnzzJ2c8/Newest%20public/Newsflash-SmuggleMammothTusks-01.mp4 Mammoth ivory has seen growing popularity in jewellery…

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May 22, 2024
Moment Railway Viaduct Dating Back Over 100 Years Ago Gets Blown Up Because Of Moving Mountains
Image shows the Castielertobel Viaduct in the Canton of Graubuenden, Switzerland, undated photo. It was blown up on Monday morning, May 13, 2024. (RhB/Newsflash)
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Moment Railway Viaduct Dating Back Over 100 Years Ago Gets Blown Up Because Of Moving Mountains

This is the dramatic moment a railway viaduct dating back more than 100 years is blown up ahead of work to build a new one to accommodate moving mountains. https://filedn.eu/lhVNGNsizwl5t7THnzzJ2c8/Newest%20public/Newsflash-ViaductBlownUp-01.mp4…

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May 20, 2024
 School Trip Hiker Finds 1,600-Year-Old Roman Lamp
Photo shows Yonatan Frankel, 16, from Hod Hasharon, Israel, and the lamp that he found, undated. He made the find in early March, while his school group was breaking for lunch near an old Roman fort along the Scorpions Ascent, a hiking trail in the desert Arava region south of the Dead Sea. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority/Newsflash)
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 School Trip Hiker Finds 1,600-Year-Old Roman Lamp

A 16-year-old high-school pupil has amazed experts after unearthing a 1,600-year-old Roman oil lamp during a class hike. Photo shows Yonatan Frankel, 16, from Hod Hasharon, Israel, and the lamp…

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March 29, 2024
American Fighter Pilot Meets German Airman 79 Years After Both Their Aircraft Were Shot On Same Day
Photo shows Ed Cottrell, 101, an ex-fighter pilot from North Carolina, USA, and Karl-Heinz Bosse, 98, a fighter pilot from Thuringia, undated. The two World War II pilots met for the first time near Bonn, Germany, where Karl-Heinz Bosse was shot down by US planes on December 17, 1944. (@therifle_/CEN)
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American Fighter Pilot Meets German Airman 79 Years After Both Their Aircraft Were Shot On Same Day

A 101-year-old American fighter pilot has met a 98-year-old German airman 79 years after they were both shot at on the same day during World War II. https://filedn.eu/lhVNGNsizwl5t7THnzzJ2c8/New%20public/CEN-USGermanWar-01.mp4 Ed Cottrell,…

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December 28, 2023
Location Of Fortress Of Mad King Built To Hide From Jews He Had Persecuted May Have Been Found
Photo shows the ancient roof tile fragments discovered at the Givati Parking Lot Excavation in the City of David in Jerusalem, Israel, undated. They were reportedly brought there at the time of the Greek Seleucid king Antiochus IV. (Eliyahu Yannai, City of David National Park/Newsflash)
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Location Of Fortress Of Mad King Built To Hide From Jews He Had Persecuted May Have Been Found

Ancient roof tiles in Israel have been discovered in the City of David, which point to the location of an ancient fortress built by King Antiochus IV, who persecuted the…

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December 7, 2023
Scythian Gold Treasures Lent To Netherlands From Crimea Returned To Ukraine After 10-Year Battle
Picture shows items from Scythian gold collection at the Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. They have been returned to Ukraine from the Netherlands. (SBU/Newsflash)
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Scythian Gold Treasures Lent To Netherlands From Crimea Returned To Ukraine After 10-Year Battle

Scythian treasures from Crimea including a solid gold helmet that had been lent to the Netherlands 10 years ago have been returned to Ukraine in what Kyiv said was a…

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December 1, 2023
Archaelogists Unearth 7,000-Year-Old Arms Dump In Israel
Photo shows the ancient slingstones, the earliest evidence of warfare and organized arming in the Southern Levant, and specifically in the area of modern Israel, undated. It is revealed that there was mass production of weapons as long as about 7,200 years ago. (Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority/Newsflash)
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Archaelogists Unearth 7,000-Year-Old Arms Dump In Israel

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed the earliest known evidence of war in the region dating back more than 7,000 years. https://filedn.eu/lhVNGNsizwl5t7THnzzJ2c8/New%20public/Newsflash-EarliestEvidenceWar-01.mp4 A study of hundreds of sling stones has revealed…

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November 23, 2023
Cranial Injury Study Reveals Huge Violence In Lawless Ancient Middle-Eastern Cities
Photo shows a cranial trauma that bears witness of a violent death. International team of researchers analyzed over 3,500 skulls found in the Middle East, In the 12,000 years before antiquity. (Joachim Wahl,University of Tubingen/Newsflash).
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Cranial Injury Study Reveals Huge Violence In Lawless Ancient Middle-Eastern Cities

A lack of legal frameworks in the disorganised first cities to be built in the Ancient Middle East led to a significant increase in violence between inhabitants, according to researchers…

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October 16, 2023
 Archaeologists Uncover Stunning Fossil Footprint Of Giant Bird That Roamed Atlantic Coast Eight Million Years Ago
Picture shows a scientist to examine the footprints found in Caleta de los Loros y Pozo Salado, Argentina, undated. The analysis of the footprints confirmed that its age is 8 million years, belonging to the Late Miocene era in which the dinosaurs were extinct and it was given the scientific name Rionegrina pozosaladensis. (Gobierno de Rio Negro/Newsflash)
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 Archaeologists Uncover Stunning Fossil Footprint Of Giant Bird That Roamed Atlantic Coast Eight Million Years Ago

Archaeologists in Argentina have uncovered a stunning fossil footprint of a giant bird that roamed the Atlantic coast about eight million years ago. Picture shows a scientist to examine the…

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October 9, 2023