A small stone shelter built 8,000 years ago has been found beneath ten feet of earth in Colorado. “It was a place where smaller task groups, just a small segment of the population would go and stay for a few days or a week,” said James Miller of the Dominguez Anthropological Research Group.

Archaeologist Julie Roy spotted a World War II-era dog tag while surveying a patch of what used to be the Desert Training Center in southern California. The tags were recently returned to the family of Pvt. Ova Napier. Six other dog tags have also been recovered.

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A new hairdo was part of the Egyptian embalming process. “The whole point of mummification was to preserve the body as in life. I guess they wanted to look their best,” said Natalie McCreesh of the University of Manchester.

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