But it would be another 18 years before Richard Owen coined the word dinosaur. The discovery of new fossils and the development of new techniques to study them have enabled scientists to delve into ...

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Here's what they told us. Elizabeth Graham, Emeritus Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology, UCL Institute of Archaeology Best discovery were huge hearths that processed salt on an industrial scale.

The excavation of ruins of the last castle built by the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is being hailed as the greatest discovery in Japan of this century. While there have been references in the ...