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Wednesday, October 27
October 27, 2010

Police in Lima, Peru, arrested a woman who attempted to send a mummy to France through Bolivia’s postal service. The mummy is thought to be Incan and about 750 years old. Meanwhile, the history department of Brigham Young University received two human skulls via the U.S. Postal Service. “No note at all. It had a […]

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Tuesday, October 26
October 26, 2010

A jawbone and teeth discovered in a cave in southern China suggest that early modern humans arrived in Asia at least 100,000 years ago, and they may have interbred with Neanderthals and other archaic hominid species. It has been thought that modern humans migrated out of Africa about 60,000 years ago. Armenia’s archaeology is in […]

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