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Dino soup, anyone? For centuries, the Chinese have likely used dinosaur bones—thought to be mythical dragon bones—as ingredients in their medicine and food.

July 13, 2007
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See a roundup of the week's news and events: Indonesia's Mount Gamkonara rumbles, snow falls in Buenos Aires after 89 years, Boeing launches its 787 Dreamliner, and more.

July 13, 2007
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An ancient jawbone found in Ethiopia could rekindle the debate about how many species of human ancestors roamed East Africa three to four million years ago.

July 13, 2007
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See an 800-year-old murder scene recently discovered in New Mexico, and explore the monuments built by the victims' little-known culture.

July 12, 2007
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Seven skeletons found in a remote canyon were victims of a massacre that may have been part of an ancient campaign of genocide, archaeologists say.

Photos: Mysterious Culture Unearthed

July 12, 2007
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See top shots from this year's edition of Spain's breathtaking, bone-breaking running of the bulls-and get the story behind the centuries-old tradition.

July 11, 2007
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Paintings and etchings found in cliffs south of Cairo look just like—and are as old as—the iconic Stone Age art of Spain and France.

July 11, 2007
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See inside Tutankhamun and a mummy some think is the pharaoh Akhenaten. Odd skulls and other similarities suggest the mummies may be related.

July 10, 2007
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New medical scans bolster the theory that an unidentified corpse is Akhenaten—the heretic pharaoh married to Nefertiti who some believe was Tut's father.

Photos: Who Was Tut's Father?

July 10, 2007
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Remains of chili peppers prepared and eaten by Zapotec Indians as far back as A.D. 600 reveal a surprisingly diverse diet similar to modern Mexico's.

July 10, 2007
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From Rome's Colosseum to India's Taj Mahal, see how the recently announced "new seven wonders of the world" stack up against the original list of ancient monuments.

July 9, 2007
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See a roundup of the week's news and pictures: floods in Mumbai, an annual pilgrimage in Belarus, China's Qiandao Lake, and more.

July 6, 2007
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Artifacts that may be the earliest evidence of modern humanity in India suggest that humans there survived a giant volcanic eruption 74,000 years ago.

July 5, 2007
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See pictures of some of UNESCO's new additions to the World Heritage list, from Sydney's famous opera house to an archaeological city in Iraq.

July 3, 2007
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The mummy of a salt mine worker, naturally preserved in the mineral for 1,800 years, surfaced recently in Iran—but scientists might just leave it be.

July 3, 2007

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