Canyon Holds Ancient Civilization Secrets
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The newly discovered ruins of an ancient civilization in this remote eastern Utah canyon could reveal secrets about the descendants of the continent's original Paleo-Indians who showed up before the time of Christ to settle much of present-day Utah.
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LIMA, Peru  - Even in ancient Peru, it seems dogs were a man's best friend.
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Mel Gibson's movie puts a fictional face on the collapse of the Maya Empire. Now see what the civilization really looked like, according to National Geographic artists and ancient murals.
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LIMA, Peru  - Archeologists have uncovered a 600-year-old, large underground cemetery belonging to a Peruvian warrior culture, thought to be the first discovery of its kind, an official said on Thursday.
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Ancient Americans were making elaborate meals with chilis thousands of years ago&#8212;sometimes even before the development of pottery&#8212;scientists say.
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By ALICIA CHANG   Associated Press writer  LOS ANGELES  -- For decades, scientists have scoured Mars in search of water, a basic ingredient for primitive life.   But the best clues were always tied to the ancient past when the Red Planet was warmer and wetter.
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By Chris Kahn  A struggling Indian tribe is hoping to change its fortunes by luring tourists out over the edge of the Grand Canyon on a glass- bottom observation deck 4,000 feet above the Colorado River.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--It's not often that a pipeline project spawns an archaeological dig.
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Archaeologists have discovered a cache of artifacts near South Padre Island that they say could be up to 5,000 years old, potentially providing new clues about early peoples of the Texas coast.
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A stone slab found bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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The Robledo Mountains' reputation as one of the world's most important landscapes of pre-dinosaur fossil trackways likely will be enhanced by another discovery &#151; petrified wood slowly emerging from the desert floor.
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Archaeologists have begun excavating ancient skeletal remains believed to be those of five people, probably Anasazis.
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A circular formation discovered in a wooded area next to a highway slated for widening is likely some sort of an earthen enclosure built by prehistoric Indians, Ball State University archaeologists say. Workers with the Delaware County Office of Geographic Information System found the earthen structure more than a year ago while studying contours on a large topographical map.
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Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery. But the soybean field where the Towson University anthropologist has been digging for more than a decade is yielding hints that someone camped there, on the banks of the Potomac River, as early as 14,000 B.C.
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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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Before they get to the Grand Canyon's glass-bottom Skywalk, most visitors are treated to an unexpected thrill &#151; 14 miles of dusty, axle-busting road that twists around Joshua trees on the Hualapai Indian reservation.
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Archaeologists have discovered more than 40 mummified dogs in a thousand-year-old Peruvian cemetery, yielding vital clues about the ancient culture that revered them.