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Melbourne's 'ghost sign' adverts whisper stories from the past
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Faded signs and advertisements from a bygone era are hidden in plain sight across many parts of Australia. After stumbling upon one in Melbourne, cultural archaeologist Sean Reynolds went on a mission to uncover the stories behind them.
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UK quarry worker uncovers 150-metre 'dinosaur highway'
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Researchers say the 166-million-year-old fossilised footprints could be one of the world's biggest dinosaur track sites.
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'It was so surreal': UK quarry worker uncovers 150-metre 'dinosaur highway'
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Researchers say the 166-million-year-old fossilised footprints could be one of the world's biggest dinosaur track sites.
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Search for up to 1,000 South Sea Islanders at hospital site fails to find burials
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The whereabouts of South Sea Islanders believed to have been buried on a hospital site in North Queensland in the late 1800s remains a mystery after a ground-penetrating radar search failed.
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Sale of large collection of South Australian Aboriginal artefacts opposed
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A South Australian teacher who collected hundreds of objects starting in the 1960s is now trying to sell them, but Indigenous leaders say they should instead be put on display in a "keeping place" that doesn't yet exist.
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Australia's largest mass exhumation uncovers secrets, scandals and grave robbery
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After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there would likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard.
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VIDEO: A flyover showing how Hutchins sits directly over top of hundreds of graves.
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Graveyard underneath Hobart's Hutchins School.
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Scandals, decomposed coffins and dodgy records hamper mass exhumation
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After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there'd likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard. But the scale of what the archaeological team found was staggering — and the job of putting names to the many bones "like a giant puzzle".
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Nearly 2,000 bodies were found under a school's sporting field, in what is believed to be Australia's biggest exhumation
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After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there would likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard. But the scale of what the archaeological team found was staggering — and the job of putting names to the many bones was "like a giant puzzle".
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Australia's largest mass exhumation reveals almost 2,000 bodies underneath school
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After workers dug up two skeletons at a Hobart school's hockey field it was believed there'd likely be more, with the location being an old graveyard. But the scale of what the archaeological team found was staggering — and the job of putting names to the many bones "like a giant puzzle".
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Tragic story of Pompeii on show at national museum
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The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum uses immersive audiovisual elements alongside artefacts to show attendees what life may have been like.
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Reconstruction of Mount Vesuvius Eruption, Pompeii Exhibition
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Reconstruction of Mount Vesuvius Eruption, Pompeii Exhibition
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New exhibition takes audiences to the ancient city of Pompeii before Mt Vesuvius erupted
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The Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum uses immersive audiovisual elements alongside artefacts to show attendees what life may have been like.
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Oldest modern human genomes reveal when our ancestors and Neanderthals interbred
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While Neanderthals and modern humans lived together in Europe for only a relatively short time, two separate studies found inter-species breeding took place from around 50,000 years ago.
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Human skull believed to be historical Indigenous remains found in outback
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Council workers were excavating a gravel pit near Longreach in Queensland when they came across a human skull which traditional owners say will remain in place.
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Footprints suggest two types of ancient human relatives walked side by side 1.5 million years ago
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Newly discovered fossil footprints indicate two different ancient human relatives walked upright around a muddy lake in Kenya.
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Remains of Indigenous ancestor welcomed home after 150 years as elders fulfill 'sacred responsibility'
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The Wagonga lady is one of more than 1,700 ancestors returned to Australia from overseas collections in the past three decades, but many more remain to be found and returned.
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150 years after her remains were exhumed and sent overseas, the Wagonga lady is home
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The Wagonga lady is one of more than 1,700 ancestors returned to Australia from overseas collections in the past three decades, but many more remain to be found and returned.
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DNA testing reveals Pompeii residents weren't who they were thought to be
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An international study has found assumptions on the sex and relationships of individuals found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city buried in a volcanic eruption were not based on scientific evidence.
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Welcome to Lightning Ridge, where dinosaur bones and rare opalised fossils are waiting to be discovered
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In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare relics of the past, striking deals with collectors and opal miners, and unlocking our understanding of deep geological history.
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Two fossil-mad friends suspect theyβve found something precious. Theyβre calling in the expert
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In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare relics of the past, striking deals with collectors and opal miners, and unlocking our understanding of deep geological history.
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This fossil collector may have just hit the jackpot. The only question is whether to sell or save it
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In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare relics of the past, striking deals with collectors and opal miners, and unlocking our understanding of deep geological history.
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Museum welcomes back boy who broke 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar
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The child's father says he thought "please let that not be my child" after hearing a crash while touring artefacts in the Hecht Museum with his family.
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Calls to protect northern Australia's ancient stone wall fish traps from tourists, climate change
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Traditional owners say World Heritage listing would help preserve Australia's largest archaeological site, an elaborate network of stone walls designed to trap fish at low tide in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
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Shipwreck discovered in Swan River one of the oldest found
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Patrick Morrison and Ross Anderson said the 23-metre-long barge was used to carry limestone and other building materials from quarries in Fremantle and Rocky Bay.
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Maritime researchers uncover 1882 shipwreck in Perth's Swan River
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Maritime archaeologists identify the earliest known shipwreck in the Swan River, a cargo barge wrecked in an 1882 storm, which provides a glimpse into life in 19th-century Perth.
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On-farm repatriation of First Nations artefacts
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First Nations artefacts went from a box in Jingellic farmers Peter and Mary Hoodless' shed, to a repatriation ceremony on their property.
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Farmer helps return Indigenous artefacts to rest on country
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What appeared to be a pile of rocks in a shed turns out to be a collection of important Indigenous artefacts that has sent this farming family on a quest to preserve cultural heritage.
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NASA astronaut Kayla Barron installs the first square for archaeological research
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NASA astronaut Kayla Barron installs the first square for archaeological research on the International Space Station.
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From toiletry bags to post-it notes, the International Space Station needs decluttering
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Archaeologists studying areas of the International Space Station find that, much like a person's workbench, they attract miscellaneous objects that belong somewhere else entirely.
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This tiny arm bone fossil sheds light on the early human species known as the 'hobbit'
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The discovery of a 700,000-year-old arm bone fossil and two teeth on the Indonesian island of Flores is shedding light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis evolved.
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This tiny arm bone belonged to an ancient human who stood a metre tall
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The discovery of a 700,000-year-old arm bone fossil and two teeth on the Indonesian island of Flores is shedding light on how the tiny, now-extinct human Homo floresiensis evolved.
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Unknown mummy may be frozen in time 'screaming in agony' due to post-mortem spasm
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The 2,500-year-old mummy — dubbed the Screaming Woman — was "virtually dissected" by an Egyptian research team.
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Human remains found during excavation for new Hobart school building now top 1,300 β with 500 more expected
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The continued exhumation of a former cemetery on the grounds of a prestigious Hobart boys' school has uncovered an additional 1,300 human remains — with around 500 more bodies yet to be found.
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Human remains found during excavation for new Hobart school building now top 1,300
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The continued exhumation of a former cemetery on the grounds of a prestigious Hobart boys' school has uncovered an additional 1,300 human remains.
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Museum Collaboration on the South Australian Virtual Reality Experience
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During 2023, researchers from Sydney, Australia and students from Kaiserslautern, Germany developed a virtual dive to the wreck of South Australian.
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Long-lost South Australian shipwreck comes to life through comic book art and virtual reality
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The story of the state's oldest colonial shipwreck is being re-imagined in a museum exhibit that allows history buffs to see it through the eyes of divers, as well as visitors on board while it was still intact in 1837.
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These termite hills have been active for over 34,000 years β and they hold a snapshot of South Africa's ancient climate
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Researchers used radiocarbon dating to determine some termite mounds in an arid region were about 34,000 years old.
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Ancient hunting scene in an Indonesian cave is the oldest-known evidence of visual storytelling
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The discovery of red pigment paintings daubed on the walls of a secluded Sulawesi cave about 51,000 years ago also provides the oldest evidence of our species, Homo sapiens, in the region, according to a new study.
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In a Gippsland cave, remains of an ancient Aboriginal ritual lay hidden for 12,000 years
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Remnants of fireplaces and burnt, fat-smeared sticks excavated in a secluded cave in Victoria point to an ancient ritual where a powerful Gunaikurnai doctor, known as a mulla-mullung, cast a spell.
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'There's compassion': Neanderthals may have cared for a six-year-old with Down syndrome
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A new study suggests ancient humans provided altruistic care for community members, after finding evidence of Down syndrome in a Neanderthal child.
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Why this Sydney museum decided to remove mummified body parts from its display
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Critics of displaying mummified bodies argue it's dehumanising and disrupts the person's journey to the afterlife. Changing attitudes have led a Sydney museum to remove several mummified body parts from its display.
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Should we display mummified remains? These Egyptians say 'no'
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Critics of displaying mummified bodies argue it's dehumanising and disrupts the person's journey to the afterlife. Changing attitudes have led a Sydney museum to remove several mummified body parts from its display.
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Emma's job involves looking for long-lost bodies and helping their loved ones find peace
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The use of ground penetrating radar to help solve crimes is well known, but recently it's played a major role in helping Australian South Sea Islander communities find the missing bodies of long-lost ancestors.
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This team went 'guerilla-style' into the British Museum to create exact replicas of the Parthenon marbles
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This archaeologist and his team had a simple plan — take 3D scans of the Parthenon marbles and recreate them for the British Museum so the originals could be returned to Greece. When the museum said no, they went in anyway, "guerilla-style".
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'There is a sacredness about the marbles': Why Stephen Fry thinks his country should return the Parthenon marbles
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This archaeologist and his team had a simple plan — take 3D scans of the Parthenon marbles and recreate them for the British Museum so the originals could be returned to Greece. When the museum said no, they went in anyway, "guerilla-style".
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Exact copies of Parthenon marbles created in attempt to have originals returned to Greece
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This archaeologist and his team had a simple plan — take 3D scans of the Parthenon marbles and recreate them for the British Museum so the originals could be returned to Greece. When the museum said no, they went in anyway, "guerilla-style".
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Norwegian farmer discovers rust-covered Viking sword on property
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Only around 170 swords have been uncovered in Europe and this could be the first of its kind found in the Rogaland region.
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Nerd quiz: Are you an uber geek or a dynamo dunce?
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What is a baby platypus called? Where is Planet Nine? Are you an uber geek? There's only one way to find out — take this quiz.
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From snake-eating lizards to far-flung planets β do you have what it takes to beat the nerd quiz?
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What is a baby platypus called? Where is Planet Nine? Are you an uber geek? There's only one way to find out — take this quiz.
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