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Nov 4, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Cara Johnson
The dime, which is one of only two known to exist in the world, was kept by a collector in a bank vault for 46 years. In 1975, the U.S. Mint in San Francisco produced 2.8 million proof sets — coins for collectors, not for circulation — marked with an “S.” But at least two of these coins lacked the “S” mark. Now, after being hidden in a bank vault for 46 years, one of them has been sold for a jaw-dropping $500,000. Its fate was long unknown to coin collectors — until now.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson
The 300-year-old glass bottles were pulled from the wreckage of a fleet of ships that sank after sailing into a hurricane in July 1715. In July 1715, 11 Spanish ships sank in a hurricane off the Atlantic coast of Florida, and more than 300 years later, divers visited the site to pull artifacts from the wreckage. Now, the Florida Division of Historical Resources has announced the restoration of two rare “onion bottles” found on one of the doomed ships.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Cara Johnson
It's long been believed that the ancient city of Mitla in Mexico sat over tunnels to the underworld — and archaeologists are getting closer to proving that such tunnels actually exist. The Zapotec people believed they knew where to find the underworld: beneath their feet in the ancient Mexican city of Mitla.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson
Researchers from the British Museum just revealed that the Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian clay tablet, seemingly describes the location of an ark from an ancient story that parallels the Biblical account of Noah. The Imago Mundi, a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that’s considered to be the oldest map of the world, contains depictions of the Earth as the ancient Mesopotamians understood it.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson
In 2019, amateur metal detectorists in England's Chew Valley uncovered a hoard of 2,584 silver coins dating to between 1066 and 1068 — and now it's officially the most valuable treasure ever found in the United Kingdom. In January 2019, a group of metal detectorists in Chew Valley of southern England stumbled upon an extraordinary cache of 2,584 silver coins dating back nearly 1,000 years to the Norman Conquest.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Bram Stoker |Cara Johnson
In 2023, Brian Cleary was browsing the National Library of Ireland when he uncovered a Bram Stoker short story called "Gibbet Hill" that's been lost since it was published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890. In October 2023, Brian Cleary, a pharmacist and amateur historian, stumbled upon what every book enthusiast dreams of: a lost story by one of the most influential writers in history.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson
A team of researchers from the Amazônia Revelada project uncovered an 18th-century Portuguese settlement and several other archaeological sites in the Amazon rainforest using LiDAR technology. The Amazônia Revelada project, led by archaeologist Eduardo Neves, is using LiDAR technology to scan areas of the Amazon rainforest for lost structures. LiDAR, which employs lasers to map the landscape, has been instrumental in revealing hidden archaeological sites under thick canopy coverage.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Amber Morgan |Cara Johnson
The temple was dedicated to Dushara, a supreme god of the Nabataean civilization, which thrived in northern Arabia from the fourth century B.C.E. until it was annexed by the Roman Empire in 106 C.E.In the first and second centuries C.E., Pozzuoli, Italy — or Puteoli, as it was known at the time — was an important Roman port city. The Nabataeans, who hailed from northern Arabia, traveled there to trade their luxury goods, and they established a temple to Dushara along the port.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Kaleena Fraga |Cara Johnson
Scientists have reconstructed the most complete genome of a Tasmanian tiger to date, bringing them one step closer to reviving the species that has been extinct since 1936. In 1936, the world’s last thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, died in a zoo in Hobart, Tasmania. Now, a de-extinction company believes that it’s just a few steps away from bringing the species back to life.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
allthatsinteresting.com | Austin Harvey |Cara Johnson
So far, archaeologists have uncovered 139 graves with the remains of both humans and animals, a trove of artifacts, and even evidence of several ship burials. While investigating a Stone Age settlement just outside of Varberg, Sweden, archaeologists serendipitously discovered a massive Viking-Age burial ground rife with artifacts.
