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The 11,500-Year-Old Temple Built Before Farming: The Discovery of Göbekli Tepe
Built 6,000 years before Stonehenge, Göbekli Tepe proved that hunter-gatherers constructed 50-ton megalithic temples before agriculture was invented.
Ötzi the Iceman: A 5,300-Year-Old Murder Mystery
In 1991, hikers found a body in the Alps and assumed it was a lost climber. It was Ötzi the Iceman, a 5,300-year-old murder victim. Here is the forensic story — the arrow
Someone Carried a Child Across Ice Age America 23,000 Years Ago
Fossil footprints at White Sands, New Mexico — including a trackway of someone carrying a child — are dated to ~23,000 years ago, thousands of years before humans were th