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A group of Iranian archeologists has discovered the remains of an ancient underground city near a village in the country's western Hamadan Province.

Located near the village of Arzanfoud, some 25 kilometers southeast of the city of Hamadan, the ancient structure is made of 25 interconnected rooms.

Archaeologists say they have discovered the world's earliest example of cutlery in a cave near Tel Aviv, which dates back to at least 200,000 years ago.

The tiny stone knives are about the size and shape of a quarter with two sharp and two dull edges, AolNews reported.

Archeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient oven during excavations at El Teul archaeological site in Zacatecas in northern Mexico.

Excavations by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) yielded a Prehispanic oven, which was used to melt copper more than 800 years ago.

An Oxford University scholar has made the information found by British Egyptologist Howard Carter during excavations at Tutankhamun's tomb available online.

Jaromir Malek, who is in charge of the Carter archive at the Griffith Institute of Oxford University, wanted to provide the unique collection for the public and encourage Egyptologists to finish studying the tomb's contents.

Italy has mounted an exhibition of its royal family relics and art works for the first time, as the country celebrates its 150th anniversary of unification next year.

“Casa Savoia e l'Unità d'Italia”, meaning House of Savoy and the united Italy, is displaying many relics which belonged to Italian kings and queens.

Archeologists have discovered a Mayan king's burial chamber beneath the El Diablo pyramid in the city of El Zotz in Guatemala's Peten region.

The tomb is full of textiles, ceramics, woodcarvings, children's bones and red and yellow ceramics adorned with fish and wild boar motifs.

Excavations have unveiled a tiny clay tablet, which archeologists say bears the oldest written document ever found in Jerusalem .

The fragment was found in the Ophel area, located between the southern wall of the Old City of Jerusalem and the City of David to its south.

A metal detectorist has stumbled upon the largest single hoard of Roman coins ever to have been found in Britain on a farm near Frome in Somerset.

Dave Crisp found 52,500 bronze and silver coins dating back to the 3rd century CE, all stuffed into a pot-bellied pottery jar.

Two tombs from the age of pyramids have been discovered in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, near Cairo in Egypt. The paintings depict a father and son, whom the tombs belong to, as important government officials and include two fake doors. Archaeologists say the most impressive feature is the brightness of the colours on the doors guarding the 4200- year-old tombs. Roza Ibragimova reports from the site.

Stone tools found in the east of England suggest that early human beings arrived in Britain nearly one million years ago, far earlier than previously thought.

According to a study published in the journal Nature, an excavation in the coastal village of Happisburgh yielded over 70 flint tools which are said to be the first records of human habitation on the edges of the northern Eurasia forests.