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Two Brothers, a Field at Night, and a Secret Kept From Father: The 'Blue Men' Return
A premium article from Ancient Pages recounts a sighting of giant, blue-skinned figures and asks whether such beings are an earthly hidden people or visitors from the stars.
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Skulls From Abydos Reopen the Case of the First Pharaohs' Retainers
A fresh look at skulls held at Cambridge suggests that at least 39 percent of those examined may have met violent ends beside Egypt's earliest royal tombs.
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Neanderthals Were Handy With Timber, Spanish Rock Shelter Suggests
Nearly 600 wooden remains and impressions from Abric Romaní include possible spears, a mace-like object and the makings of a kitchen platform, researchers report.
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Reddit Poster Links Tesla Motor, Wright Airfield and Recovered Craft in 1945
A post to r/UFOs asserts that the Office of Alien Properties sent a recovered Tesla drive to Ohio to test-fly craft from the Battle of Los Angeles and Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Last of William Penn's Riverbank Stairways Survives in Philadelphia
The Wood Street Steps, says Atlas Obscura, are the sole remnant of ten or more public stairways commissioned to give citizens access to the Delaware wharves.
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Stone Coffin of the First Farmers Surfaces Ahead of Norwegian Industrial Works
Archaeologists in Halden report a 4,000-year-old cist grave with a mosaic-like floor, an amber bead and arrowheads, but no trace of its occupant.
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Bronze Seal Ring Bearing Image of Lost Pharos Lighthouse Raised From Alexandria Harbor
Egypt's antiquities officials say the signet, found among the sunken ruins of the royal island of Antirhodos, is the first of its kind.
