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PHOTOS: Construction workers unearth E.T. in the New Mexico Desert

[imagebrowser id=68] A long-standing legend was confirmed at last over the weekend when a crew of construction workers finally dug deep enough to uncover the remains of “E.T” in a New Mexico desert landfill. Remains of the video game, that is. In 1983 famed video game maker Atari acquired the rights to make the official […]

April 28, 2014

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PHOTOS: Construction crew discovers ancient graveyard of whales, sloths and fish killed by algae

[imagebrowser id=44] Scientists have solved the mystery surrounding a mass graveyard of ancient sea life discovered by a Chilean highway construction crew more than three years ago. During the widening of the Pan-American Highway in northern Chile, road workers uncovered more than 40 fossilized skeletons preserved in sandstone. Most of the skeletons were that of baleen […]

March 18, 2014

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San Francisco construction crew adds human skeleton to unique collection of finds at Transbay Transit site

A construction crew in San Francisco is slowly amassing a small museum of the city’s history. While building the $1.9 billion Transbay Transit Center, described as a “Grand Central Station of the West,” workers with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority have found several interesting items that represent various periods of the city’s past, according to […]

February 27, 2014

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Construction worker uncovers mammoth tusk from Ice Age (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

While excavating for plumbing trenches on the jobsite of a high-rise apartment complex in the Seattle, Washington neighborhood of south Union Lake, a construction worker uncovered what may be the greatest archaeological find in the city’s history. And he did it with just a shovel. Transit plumbing worker Joe Wells moved a pile of dirt […]

February 18, 2014

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Construction crew unearths rare, pre-Civil War sword in Arkansas

While doing excavation work for a new parking deck in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, a construction crew unearthed a sword that predates the Civil War. The Clark Construction crew turned the sword over to the Historic Arkansas Museum. In an interview with KATV, the museum’s chief curator, Swanee Burnett, said the museum is very excited […]

February 14, 2014

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Utility construction crew unearths 2,000-year-old skeletal remains in South Florida

While digging the trench for a water line installation a few weeks ago in Davie, Florida, a utility crew discovered the remains of a 2,000-year-old Tequesta Indian woman. Archaeologists in the area rarely find fully intact skeletons and are saying that this discovery may be the best preserved find in the last 40 years, according […]

January 15, 2014

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Construction crew rescues live deer from basement of house it’s building

Construction crews find all kinds of things on, and often underneath, the jobsite. Suffice it to say, it’s not often that it gives them a fight on its way out of the ground. But that’s exactly what happened when a crew composed of members from Tim Halbrook Builders and Steve Fischer Construction found a live, 9-point […]

November 11, 2013

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Backhoe operator discovers rare 35-foot dinosaur fossil

After all the interesting bones and artifacts discovered on jobsites this year alone, we’re beginning to wonder what archaeologists would do without construction crews. The latest addition to the list is rare type of dinosaur fossil find. While clearing a site for the installation of an oil pipeline in Spirit River, Alberta, Canada, a backhoe […]

October 9, 2013

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Graveyard found beneath construction site of high school football stadium

Well, this certainly brings a whole new meaning to booing at a football game. Come 2016, the football team of one Virginia high school will call the site of a pre-Civil War graveyard their home turf. According to WTOP.com, the Prince William County school system has begun preparing the site of a new high school […]

September 4, 2013

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Construction of London railway uncovers a millennium’s worth of historical artifacts

The 73-mile, $23 billion Crossrail commuter line is Britain’s largest construction project. Tunneling for the project’s 13-mile underground rail is advancing at a rate of 330 feet per week, and while constructing an exciting part of London’s future, the crews have uncovered a great deal of the city’s past. In the 16 to 20 feet […]

August 20, 2013

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NYC construction crew digs up artifacts from American Revolutionary era

While digging to replace utilities under New York City’s South Street Seaport, a construction crew uncovered several artifacts from the 18th century. Just as crews had begun digging the $40 million project, archaeologists hired by the city to monitor the process noticed “a host” of artifacts under Fulton Street, reports New York 1. Broken bottles, […]

August 15, 2013

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Polish construction workers uncover a ‘vampire grave’ from the Middle Ages (PHOTO)

We love sharing interesting stories from the jobsite, but this one, by far, is the weirdest one we’ve seen yet. While working on a site near the town of Gliwice, Poland, construction workers unearthed multiple skeletons whose heads had been placed between their legs—an indication that these were people executed as vampires, according to the Telegraph. […]

July 15, 2013