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A shirtless, barefooted thief was arrested and later released by the Rio de Janeiro police after he broke into a church and stole an centuries old monstrance.
The Negro River, the major tributary that runs through the Brazilian Amazon, has reached historic lows, revealing millennia-old carvings previously hidden under water. The engravings deeply etched into the black rock along the riverbanks represent human faces, animals and other figures, and are thought to be 1,000 to 2,000 years old, archaeologists said. “They allow…
Ice mummies, weapons and entire settlements a number of sensational archeological finds can be put down to climate change. At the same time, other precious discoveries risk being lost forever.