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  Meet a medieval woman named 'Tora' who lived 800 years ago in Norway

  Live Science - By Jennifer Nalewicki

  Using skeletal remains unearthed in Norway, researchers created a realistic-looking model of what this medieval woman may have looked like. A …

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  Hundreds of medieval skeletons, half of them children, discovered under Wales department store

  Live Science - By Jennifer Nalewicki

  More than 240 skeletons have been unearthed from a former medieval friary cemetery, revealing a "snapshot of the community." Archaeologists in Wales …

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  Falcon shrine with cryptic message unearthed in Egypt baffles archaeologists

  Live Science - By Owen Jarus

  An ancient falcon shine in Berenike, an old port city in Egypt, has flummoxed archaeologists who aren't sure what to make of its headless falcons, …

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  See lifelike facial reconstructions of a medieval Scottish woman, priest and bishop

  Live Science - By Jennifer Nalewicki

  Their remains were found in Scotland more than 60 years ago. Little was known about three skeletons found in a medieval crypt in Scotland when workers …

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  37,000-year-old mammoth butchering site may be oldest evidence of humans in North America

  Live Science - By Harry Baker

  But some experts are skeptical about the new findings. A 37,000-year-old mammoth butchering site, uncovered in New Mexico, might be the earliest …

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  Amphibian 'death pit' filled with 8,000 bones unearthed in Iron Age village

  Live Science - By Owen Jarus

  How did the shattered corpses end up there? A death pit of 8,000 frog and toad bones dating back at least 2,000 years has archaeologists in England …