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A team of scientists have used a pair of robots to take thousands of photographs of the world's most famous shipwreck, Titanic.

The expedition left Newfoundland early August to the spot where the ship hit an iceberg back in 1912 and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, AP reported.

August 25, 1941 marks one of the darkest days for Iranians in the history of their country. It is the day on which the Britain and the Soviet Union that claimed to be fighting the Nazis for the freedom of all unleashed their forces on Iran despite it had announced its neutrality in the war.

The Operation codenamed Countenance turned Iran into an occupied land and the allied forces into invaders. Britain and the Soviet Union claimed the government in Iran had violated the terms of neutrality in the war and literally given a hand to one of the parties in the conflict by inviting German engineers and contractors to take part in the development projects in Iran. But that was nothing more than a pretext; one that only provided the red army and the British military with a lame justification to violate the neutrality of Iran which was announced and maintained in line with the international law.

Recent excavations in southern Mexico City have unveiled skeletal remains of about 50 children, once members of the ancient Aztec civilization.

"In total, there are 60 graves, 10 adults and around 50 children of different ages, some two or three years old," archeologist Maria de Jesus Sanchez told Reuters.

Recent findings in Ethiopia have provided new evidence of early human ancestors using stones for cutting meat more than 3.2 million years ago.

According to the study, published in the journal Nature, bones found in Ethiopia's Dikika region show that hominins used stone tools to cleave meat from animal bones more than 800,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists are trying to solve a mystery surrounding a collection of inscribed symbols in Scotland, which they say had been there before the country was formed.

Linguists say the symbols were carved on stone by an ancient community known as the Picts, who lived in today's Scotland from the 4th to the 9th centuries.

Discovery of four hand-carved caves in an Iranian northern village has made it evident that the ancient settlement is thousands of years older than previously thought.

A team of researchers from Masouleh Conservation and Sustainable Development NGO believe the hand-carved caves belong to the Stone Age.

Archeologists have unearthed UK's oldest house that was built by Stone Age tribesmen around 11,000 years ago when Britain's land mass was still part of Europe.

The Stone Age dwelling, discovered near the town of Scarborough, is expected to change the way archaeologists view that early period.

Archeologists have found a piece of obsidian in Turkey's northern Samsun Province, which they say might have been used as a scalpel for ancient surgeries.

Dating back to 4,000 years ago, the volcanic glass was discovered during excavations in the ruins of the Ikiztepe village in Samsun's Bafra district.

Following the Ottoman war of 1603-1605, Armenians began to arrive in Iran in search of a new life under the Safavid King Shah Abbas I.

Shah Abbas I, who settled tens of thousands of them in the Iranian provinces south of Aras River, also relocated Armenians, who had fled from the Ottoman massacre in Nakhchivan to Iran.

Archeologists have discovered the remains of a cave chamber in Cantabria, Spain, which they believe was once used as a bedroom by Neanderthals.

The late Pleistocene room, found in the Esquilleu Cave, included a hearth and grass beds that seems to have once been covered with animal fur.