In Photos: Tomb of the Maccabees Possibly Found

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archaeologist working at a web site in Judea , in what is now southern Israel , say they may have found the locating of the Tomb of the Maccabees , where loss leader of a band of Judaic freedom fighter from the second century B.C. were buried . Here ’s a facial expression at the site and dig remains . [ Read the full story on the Maccabee Site ]

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Maccabee royal tomb

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Burial chamber mosaics

archeologic work

a fragment of weathered papryus

a view of an excavated building in the desert with palm trees around it

Photograph looking down a short set of marble stairs into a narrow, empty pool with an apsidal end

Remains of the Heroon, a small temple built for the burial cluster of Philip II at the Museum of the Royal Tombs inside the Great Tumulus of Aigai (Aegae)

An illustration of a human and neanderthal facing each other

Gold ring with intaglio cameo stone carved with bust of Apollo and a snake

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This squat lobster seems to be the star of the Endurance shipwreck.

The taffrail and ship’s wheel.

This skull from Peru has a metal implant. If it is authentic then it would be a potentially unique find from the ancient Andes.

Weapons found in two castles in Japan could be ninja weapons, with some of the weapons possibly being the forerunners to the throwing star. Here, a hand-colored illustration of mid-18th century Japan and two ninjas.

Archaeologists found more than 20 Terracotta Warriors in one of the pits around the tomb of the 1st emperor of China. One of those pits is shown here.

An image comparing the relative sizes of our solar system�s known dwarf planets, including the newly discovered 2017 OF201

a person holds a GLP-1 injector

A man with light skin and dark hair and beard leans back in a wooden boat, rowing with oars into the sea

an MRI scan of a brain

A photograph of two of Colossal�s genetically engineered wolves as pups.

an abstract image of intersecting lasers