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View this email in your browser Cao Cao Could Not Hide Forever: Remains Finally Confirmed As Chinese Warlord Archaeologists in China are convinced they have found the tomb and remains of Cao Cao, a famous Chinese warlord who rose to great power in the final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty 1,800 years ago. Cao Cao made a careful plan before his death to keep his final resting place a secret – 72 coffins were carried to 72 separate burial sites on the day of his funeral. But it seems it wasn’t enough to keep the location of his real tomb a secret forever... Read more... Outrage as Concrete is Poured on World’s Oldest Known Temple at Göbekli Tepe Archaeologists around the world have been left shocked and furious after the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry gave the go ahead for ‘conservation work’ at the ancient site of Göbekli Tepe, which has resulted in irreparable damage from heavy equipment and concrete being poured around the historically important. Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site located at the top of a mountain ridge in south-eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Dating back at least 12,000 years, it is home to the oldest known temple in... Read more... ‘Holy Grail’ of Shipwrecks Comes Ashore 200 Years Later, Inscribed with Ancient Numbers Hundreds of years after meeting its doom beneath the waves, a shipwreck finally makes its way back to the shore, to the surprise of beachgoers. A sodden shipwreck that is thought to date to between the 1700s to 1800s has been discovered along the sands of Ponte Vedra Beach, St. Johns County, Florida this week. Action News Jax reports that after washing ashore overnight, the waterlogged, partial skeleton of the old ship was discovered in the early morning by Julie Turner and her 8-year-old son, Patrick... Read more... Glastonbury: Archaeology is Revealing New Truths About the Origins of British Christianity New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey pushes back the date for the earliest settlement of the site by 200 years – and reopens debate on Glastonbury’s origin myths. Many Christians believe that Glastonbury is the site of the earliest church in Britain , allegedly founded in the first or second century by Joseph of Arimathea . According to the Gospels, Joseph was the man who donated his own tomb for the body of Christ following the crucifixion... Read more... South Indian Sudoku: Archaeologists Find Magic Square Puzzle Inscribed on Temple Pillar Archaeologists in India have discovered a rare 300-year-old inscription of a sudoku-like game on the pillar of a temple in Palani, India. When added in any direction, the numbers total 15, which is the number associated with the temple’s deity. The News Minute reports that researchers made the discovery while making repairs to a pillar in a 13 th century mandapam, a pillared outdoor pavilion used for public rituals, located in the foothills of Palani, a pilgrim town in Tamil Nadu, India... Read more... 13,000-Year-Old Footprints Found in British Columbia Are the Oldest in North America 13,000 years ago, three people disembarked from their boat and headed up a beach, but they suddenly stopped to watch something. It’s amazing to think that part of their journey has been preserved until today. Those late Pleistocene footprints are the oldest of their kind in North America, but researchers expect the discovery may push others to search for more, perhaps even older ones. In 2014, Duncan McLaren, an anthropologist at the Hakai Institute and University of Victoria in British Columbia, was exploring the shoreline of Calvert Island, British Columbia, Canada... Read more... Scientists Reconstruct the Face of a Cro-Magnon Man, Tumors and All To mark the 150th anniversary of the discovery his bones, researchers have re-examined the 28,000-year-old remains of a middle-aged Cro-Magnon man. They have found that he suffered from a genetic disease which heavily marked his skin and caused large