The box was soon unearthed.
Angry birds' figurine found A 3,200-year-old clay figurine, unearthed by Chinese archaeologists in Sichuan province, seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to the green pig from the Angry Birds mobile game.
Back in 1974, while digging a well to fight drought, some farmers from Lintong county, about thirty kilometers east of Xi'an, unearthed some brown pottery fragments, which led to the great discovery of the executed terra-cotta legions as an exterior section of the mausoleum, of Qin Shi Huang or First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty (255-210B.
A cave site containing fragile stone tools and pottery shards believed to be at least 4,000 years old was recently unearthed in Ngari Prefecture, Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The explorers unearthed a jar containing a solid, whitish mass from the tomb, which was first dug up in 1885 but covered under drifting sands until 2010.
A new study by Just Right by Purina, examining pet owners' unique relationships with their furry friends, has unearthed some amazing information.
This 31-centimeter-high piece unearthed in 1959 can be dated back to the West Zhou Dynasty, over 3,000 years ago.
According to published materials, there are about 150,000 pieces of unearthed oracle bone scripts, and about 100,000 were preserved in the Chinese mainland, 30,000 in Taiwan and the other 20,000 were scattered across the world.
Three royal baths have been unearthed among the ruins of an ancient city in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, archaeologists said.
FinCEN said on Thursday it had unearthed a string of dubious buyers using a new disclosure rule to probe all-cash deals undertaken through shell companies.
Scientists found that sedimentary rocks, where most dinosaur fossils were unearthed, were sanwiched between two layers of volcanic rocks, indicating vegetation was lush and suitable for dinosaurs in the early and middle Cretaceous period.
It was unearthed by archaeologists in 2012 and has since been kept at the Yizheng Museum.
A pot of 2,000-year-old beef soup has been unearthed in Central China - one of many ancient dishes discovered by archaeologists who proved that after two millennia, some foods haven't changed.
Egypt has unearthed a city more than 7,000 years old and a cemetery dating back to its first dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the antiquities ministry has said.
Stunned miners have unearthed the world's most valuable piece of jade - an 18ft monster worth 140 million pounds.
ATHENS — A Greek archaeologist who has been leading a 20-year excavation in northern Greece said on Thursday that he believed he had unearthed the tomb of Aristotle.
The detainees were charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and other offences after their activities were unearthed by the University of Northern New Jersey, a phantom institution set up by the United States department of homeland security.
Earliest paper unearthed dates back to 2 200 years ago.
The Simuwu Rectangle Ding In 1939, a bronze ding which is an ancient cooking vessel with two loop handles and four legs was unearthed in Anyang, Henan Province.
The cat bones used in the study were unearthed in archaeological excavations in 2001 from the site of ancient agricultural settlements in Shaanxi province in northern China.
