Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Welcome to the second edition of Archaeology 2020. Every two months the Archive publishes a new update covering some of the most important archaeological, anthropological and other new discoveries. Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction
1:22 Aswan, Egypt "2,000-Year-Old Leopard Face Painting Reconstructed from Egyptian Sarcophagus"
4:18 Abu Hureyra Syria "Researchers find Evidence of a Cosmic Impact that Caused Destruction of One of the World's Earliest Human Settlements"
5:00 Zambia - United Kingdom "Zambia claims Rhodesian Man, the 250,000-year-old Fossilized Skull at London's Natural History Museum"
5:49 Italy "Student Discovers 5,000-year-old Sword Hidden in Venetian Museum"
6:23 Orkney Islands "Scottish Storms Unearth 1,500-year-old Viking-era Cemetery"
6:53 Washington, D.C. "'Dead Sea Scrolls' at the Museum of the Bible are all Forgeries"
7:29 Oaxaca, Mexico "Researchres Discover 3,400-year-old Ballcourt in Mexican Highlands"
8:12 Russia "This Mysterious Ancient Structure Was Made of Mammoth Bones"
10:25 Australia "Ancestor of All Animals Identified in Australian Fossils"
10:55 Portugal "Neanderthals ate Sharks and Dolphins"
11:24 Iraq "Ancient Cultic Area for Warrior-god Uncovered in Iraq"
12:21 China "A study Lays Out the Complexity of the Settlement of Asia by Homo sapiens"
13:31 Africa "Three Human-like Species Lived Side-by-side in Ancient Africa"

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